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What is Conjured Shall Vanish

Apex Magazine 2024

Mum stitched the corners of my mouth up to my cheeks,
and cast a spell of heat over my eyes so tears vaporized as soon as they were produced.

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My Ship Remains

Radon 2024 (previously at Flame Tree)

“Parts may change, but the ship remains.”
My mother told me this before my first shedding, and I chant it mantra-like every time I discard my limbs for new ones.

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Trapped in This Body, I Wait for You

Heartlines Spec, 2024

You expected me, but what you find is a reanimated body, my lips stitched by invisible strands and my limbs twisted at abnormal angles tethered to the strings of an alien puppeteer whose hold on me remains after their death.

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Daughter, Mother, Charcoal

Apex Magazine, 2023

When I was a little girl, Mum would wrap potatoes in aluminum foil, then put them deep into the blazing hearth between the coals and grandma’s bones.*Brave New Weird finalist 2024
*reprint in audio by CreepyPod

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The Sun Approaches Every Summer

Spectrum, 2024

She didn’t know I knew, but I was happy for her. I really was. She’d been a great friend if nothing else, and had every right to pursue activities I didn’t care to pursue with her.
And I was truly sad to see her boyfriend die of heatstroke first when the sun creeped closer next summer.

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His Belly is a Coffin

Inner Worlds, 2023

A shuddering thought seizes her: her baby caged by stomach walls. Is this anguish and defenselessness the cost of holding a precious newborn?
Is that loud pumping of her own blood and the raging sleeplessness the price of life?

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Rerolling the Dice

Gamut Magazine, 2024*

There’s a saying that Death’s a gambler—one carrying no scythe, but a massive bowl full of thousand-sided dice he rolls every morning.
In the Academy we know that’s not true. The true gambler is Life.*cover art of this issue is based on this story

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The Wolf in My Belly

The Dread Machine, 2023

Dad says I’ve shrunk because the wolf inside me feeds on my flesh every night. But soon we’ll make him leave.
Open up my belly, and remove things from inside me to starve the beast.

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Short Stories, 2023:

• Ink - Tales to Terrify (Podcast)
• A Final Offering - Uncanny & Unearthly Tales: A Grendel Press Horror Anthology (Pay-to-read)
• Primordial Jack - Azathoth: Ordo ab Chao, Journalstone (Pay-to-read)

Flash Fiction, 2023:

• I Am Lightning, Flashing Through the Frozen Sand - Apparition Lit
• Rowan the Kingslayer - Cosmorama

Micro-fiction:

• Earworm in Your Syrup - Martian Magazine 2023
• Our Home, the Quiet Darkness - Martian Magazine 2023
• When You Space Out, I Take Control - Hungry Shadow 2023
• In the Crevice of His Pasture, My Master Found His Body Parts - Drabblecast, 2023
• Bargained the Light - Dark Moments Monthly, 2024

Poetry:

• Join the Bridge - Crow's Quill
• Words like Worms - Space & Time (Pay-to-read, for now)