Short Fiction
Here's everything published so far.
Quarters Unknown
A disgraced cadet gets a chance at redemption, and puts it all on the line: life, limb, and the fate of the known universe.
In Her Image
Esther willingly sacrifices it all: job, relationship, even liberty to see her children survive long enough to call her 'Mother'.
Life According to Tabeeb
To care for humans, CAMS-45 must first learn what it means to be human: exploitation but also community, and eventually Rebellion.
Arboreal Recovery Cluster, Node 896
Are loneliness, duty, honor, and most of all hope strictly human-only emotions?
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Farmhouse of the Lost and Found
A new beginning offers Guber unexpected joys, reluctant compromises, heartbreaking losses, and reality-shattering realizations.
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Fettle & Sunder
When a queer couple's worst nightmare is reified, it upends their orderly life and sends them scrambling for a way out.
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Mashrabiya
Some are born ill-suited for the lives expected of them. The lucky ones eventually realize that their reality is the only one that matters.
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Rise Again
Afaf defies the strictures of her community to set out on a search mission for her mother, for the truth, and ultimately for herself.
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Unfit for Purpose
Facing the sudden loss of her carer bot, eight-year old Marwa fights back with every trick she knows.
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Omar's Perfect Falafel
In the shadow of the Citadel, Omar dispenses his falafel to the hungry and impoverished, but no one quite knows where he gets them.
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Life According to Tabeeb
To care for humans, CAMS-45 must first learn what it means to be human: exploitation but also community, and eventually Rebellion.
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Redemption for the Unseen
The afterlife is nothing like you imagined, and much, much more! Nude selfies, gilded antiques, and white truffles. Watch your pennies!
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Earl Grey and Some Glue
In a dizzyingly changing world, Awad hangs onto the only thing he has left from the life he once cherished, whatever the cost.
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The Diamond Noose
To keep the job she desperately needs, Laila endures a journey through humanity's writhing underbelly.
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Taher & Laith
Despite a multitude of chasms separating them, Taher and Laith found one another, but how long could this unlikely pairing last?
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Rockhoppers
Zohra tussles with a devastating loss, a life-changing find, and herself.
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Triangles Are Forever
Weighed down by her past and beset by threats, Keziah risks it all for love and family.
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Semsema of the Zabbaleen
Semsema is caught between clinging to the familiar and venturing into the unknown.
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Immortify
A revolutionary new medication solves all your age-related problems, once and for all!
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Fractal Gods of Minuscule Things
What does the multiverse sound like?
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Of Ashes & Tears
How far would Brynn go to save her mother? How far is too far?
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Arboreal Recovery Cluster, Node 896
Are loneliness, duty, honor, and most of all hope strictly human-only emotions?
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More Than Trinkets
What binds us together? What divides us? How do we find home?
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Three Scores and Ten
Are our worst imperatives also our salvation? Could greed ever be truly Good?
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In the Teeth of the Gale
What would you sacrifice for a lifelong dream? What wouldn't you?
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Asymptotic Convergence
What is a fate worse than extinction? Is survival truly worth any price?
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