Stories

Note: most of my short fiction is available for free on various internet archives. Where the work is only available in a print or ebook anthology, I’ve linked to Barnes and Noble or Amazon. &…

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Otherwise, this whole being a bird thing? Not bad. Not bad at all.

The Travel Guide to the Dimension of Lost Things By Effie Seiberg   Have you ever felt so tired that you just don’t feel anymore? Where you wake up, burrowed under the covers with a shaft of light somehow piercing through them and right into your brain, and realize that here comes one more day […]

My mother had daughters year after year, and one by one, my father devoured us.

The Augur and the Girl Left at His Door by Greta Hayer The augur looked at the bridegroom’s back and sighed. He bent close to the bridegroom’s skin, examined every bump and line in his flesh. Most apparent were the red lines, claw marks from fingernails. A less experienced fortune teller would have seen those […]