Short Stories:
Mia’s Mama’s Dying
Published in Muleskinner Journal, Volume 16: Sabotage
Love is blind, love is lame, love ain’t getting crushed by that train…
Every relationship is toxic sometimes, right?
Helena Troy Kills People
Published by Blood+Honey!
Helena Troy killed people. She herself did not know how, but it was what people said, and the evidence seemed to support that.
Baby It’s Cold Inside
On Sub
The window unit in the front is always on full-blast—it roars and drools, occasionally changing pitch like it’s trying out some new thing. The air around it tastes like wet dust with the stale edge of coolant. It’s ancient, it’s attitudinal, it’s rude. But new units are expensive.
Borders Was Better / B&N Will Do
On Sub
I was – and I say this with absolute certainty and not enough humility – always my grandmother’s favorite.
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Novels on Sub:
We Expected More
Optimistic Post-Dystopian, Queer Found Family, Sapphic Romance, Alien Romance, Cli-Fi that’s heavier on the Fi, upmarket speculative
The heir to the Church of Yesteryear, Esther, is barely hanging on. Her pops rules with a devout and iron fist, trying to build a new world after bio-chips caused the Great Death forty years ago. After her husband altered a bio chip and calmly walked off a bridge with their daughter strapped to his chest, Esther’s faith in that world fractures, as does her will to stay in it.
Hannah trained to be a dutiful companion to Students, an alien species who survive off stellar energy. She has never been to Earth, never had autonomy, and has lived under the control of her assigned handler and secret lover, 46. When she is finally sent to make first contact, she is tasked with determining whether humanity is worth saving, and whether she can earn a life of her own.
When Hannah arranges a meeting with Esther, their encounter destabilizes both their worlds. Hannah accidentally reactivates a virus-riddled bio-chip, and first contact becomes a race to prevent another collapse. As they work together, both uncover the lies sustaining their respective worlds and begin to question who they are without them.
When a secret mission from the Students surfaces, Hannah and Esther are forced to confront an impossible choice: accept survival under alien control, or risk everything for a future where both humanity and Earth can exist. As loyalty fractures and belief systems collapse, Hannah is pulled between duty and love, while Esther confronts the possibility that she actually wants to stay alive in a world she may grow to trust.
Neither system will allow for both of them to win.
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Novels in Edits:
Soft Animals
Optimistic Post-Dystopian, Sapphic Romance, #hopepunk
An event planner, a teen fungi enthusiast, a seamstress, and a nun arrive at Longwood Gardens the same day an attack on the power grid plunges their world into darkness. Facing opportunists, martial law, and conflicting personalities, the four must learn how to build a home at the venue of a wedding that never came to be, all without ever getting to return to the life they’d built before.
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WIP Novels:
Real Live Human Scientists
Space, Robots, romance?? maybe?, #Weird,
Eyes and Ears are here to fly the ship; not play pretend. The only reason they had human consciousness downloaded is for emergencies, not… whatever this is.
Red’s End of the World
Optimistic Post-Dystopian, Speculative, #Weird, Sapphic Romance
6’6″ autistic virologist falls in love with a Steven-Universe-style physical projection of the virus she’s trying to stop.
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WIP Series:
Enemy Shields
Red White and Royal Blue meets The Expanse, Alien Dragon Romance, Yup why not, Trans Romance
Pax is a shield. A good one.
