Scrawlings

“No Gentle Death,” After the Storm Magazine, Spring 2025

“I never thought they’d make good on the promises they’d scrawled all over town in the middle of the night. The last message had been across the wall of my house, letters so big my bedroom window had just been a smear of red paint. VANESSA REEVE, YOU’LL DROWN DRY”

The mayor of a post-apocalyptic town fights against a fascist uprising, aided by a queer desert posse.

“All Bright Things,” Of Gods and Globes III: Trigger Warnings & The Abyss

“In the darkness of the titan’s stomach, my sister fights to claw her heart from her chest.”

Remember the stone that Kronos swallowed? This is their story.

“Aristomache,” Dragon Gems Anthology Winter 2024

“The minotaur shook his head like an animal, then sat back on his heels and wiped his hands across his eyes like an exhausted man. When he looked at her anew, his deep black eyes were pools of starlight.”

Minotaur problems? Forget Theseus. His butch half-sister, champion of Aphrodite, is on the job.

“Ancestor,” All Worlds Wayfarer Issue XIV

“But we walk together. Our toes and arches and heels match. The galaxy of her tiny footprint pulses out to meet mine.”

An encounter with a distant ancestor.