Sci Fi Short Fiction

Here's everything published so far.

All Sci-fi Fantasy Horror
Stupefying Stories

In Her Image

Coming Soon

Esther willingly sacrifices it all: job, relationship, even liberty to see her children survive long enough to call her 'Mother'.

Far Future Machine Sentience Queer Family
A photograph of an ornate, multi-level historic library interior, with floor-to-ceiling wooden bookshelves filled with old books, an elaborate wrought-iron balcony railing in the foreground, and a large, white, sans-serif text overlay across the center that reads "Coming Soon".
Pulp Literature

Stragglers Lament

Coming Soon

Guirguis keeps to himself, eyes downcast, voice muted, but when he reaches a fork in the road, when every path exacts a terrible toll, he has to decide how much is too much.

Near Future Exploitation Rebellion
A photograph of an ornate, multi-level historic library interior, with floor-to-ceiling wooden bookshelves filled with old books, an elaborate wrought-iron balcony railing in the foreground, and a large, white, sans-serif text overlay across the center that reads "Coming Soon".
New Myths

Quarters Unknown

Coming Soon

A disgraced cadet gets a chance at redemption, and puts it all on the line: life, limb, and the fate of the known universe.

Far Future Colonialism Aliens
A photograph of an ornate, multi-level historic library interior, with floor-to-ceiling wooden bookshelves filled with old books, an elaborate wrought-iron balcony railing in the foreground, and a large, white, sans-serif text overlay across the center that reads "Coming Soon".
Bad Romance (Parsec Ink)

Never Again, Yet Again

The afterlife is nothing like you imagined, and much, much more! Nude selfies, gilded antiques, and white truffles. Watch your pennies!

Far Future Queer Inequality Family
A photograph of an ornate, multi-level historic library interior, with floor-to-ceiling wooden bookshelves filled with old books, an elaborate wrought-iron balcony railing in the foreground, and a large, white, sans-serif text overlay across the center that reads "Coming Soon".
Utopia Science Fiction

Pomegranates for Kangaroos

Twins Nesma and Nady make the best of life in a refugee camp until the raptors intervene.

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Near Future Inequality Family
Cover of Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, Volume VII June, 2026, featuring an illustration of an astronaut looking out from behind a plant stem where an orange caterpillar crawls.
Home Constellations (Manawaker Studio)

Triangles Are Forever

Weighed down by her past and beset by threats, Keziah risks it all for love and family.

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Far Future Queer Family
Cover of Home Constellations: A Speculative Anthology of Unconventional Bonds, featuring an illustration of a domestic kitchen scene where a diverse family—including humans and anthropomorphic, fox-like characters—interact, with one young fox child looking out a large window into a starry nebula.
Reckoning

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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Near Future Inequality Climate Machine Sentience
Cover of Reckoning: It Was Paradise, featuring an intricate, symmetrical illustration of a horned, green, and white mythological monster mask with striking red eyes and an open mouth on a plain white background.
Gavagai

Son of the Sea

Amid the ruins of a world all but submerged under surging oceans, a community of gritty survivors rediscover hope.

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Near Future Family Climate
A black-and-white photograph of the silhouette of a pregnant person standing against a bright, cloudy sky, looking down and gently cradling their stomach.
Cast Of Wonders

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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Near Future Inequality Climate Machine Sentience
A cropped section of the header artwork for Cast of Wonders 654, featuring an abstract illustration composed of ink-sketch lines, a prominent vibrant red shape speckled with white splatters, and the outline of a stylized human face.
Robots Past & Future (Flame Tree Press)

Arboreal Recovery Cluster, Node 896

Are loneliness, duty, honor, and most of all hope strictly human-only emotions?

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Near Future Machine Sentience Climate Family
Cover of Gothic Fantasy: Robots Past & Future Short Stories, featuring an ornate turquoise-and-black illustration surrounding the title.
Aurealis Magazine

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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Far Future Colonialism Death
Cover of Aurealis #184, featuring a fantasy illustration of an armored warrior standing next to a white wolf in a snowy, mountainous landscape.
Amplitudes (Erewhon Books)

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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Near Future Queer Family Religion
Cover of Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, featuring elongated, iridescent metallic lettering for the title surrounded by shiny four-pointed stars on a dark background.
Kaleidotrope

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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Far Future Machine Sentience Rebellion Family
Header artwork for Kaleidotrope Magazine, Autumn 2024, featuring a vibrant, watercolor-style fantasy illustration of a silhouetted witch wearing a pointed hat standing in a forest clearing, surrounded by dark gnarled trees, a perched owl, and glowing fireflies against a starry, multicolored twilight sky.
Heartlines Spec

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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Far Future Machine Sentience Young Adult Family
Cover of Heartlines Spec, Issue 5, Summer 2024, featuring a stylized illustration of a person sitting on a shoreline next to an orange tent, looking out at a large, multi-humped spiky sea serpent swimming in a lake at night under a full moon.
Learning to be Human (Flame Tree Press)

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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Near Future Inequality Climate Machine Sentience
Cover of Gothic Fantasy: Learning to be Human Short Stories, featuring a highly ornate, glowing teal filigree border surrounding a central text frame, below which a small, pixelated green digital face is visible.
Translunar Travelers Lounge

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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Far Future Queer Inequality Family
Cover of Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue Nine, August 2023, featuring an illustration of a figure standing on a wooden suspension bridge holding a torch aloft toward a large, glowing orange phoenix flying in the night sky.
Utopia Science Fiction

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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Far Future Queer Machine Sentience Family
Cover of Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, June/July 2023, featuring a top-down photograph of broken white and blue ceramic shards scattered across a dark, marble-patterned tiled floor.
Metaphorosis

The Diamond Noose

To keep the job she desperately needs, Laila endures a journey through humanity's writhing underbelly.

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Far Future Inequality Colonialism Rebellion
Cover of Metaphorosis speculative fiction, May 2023, featuring a watercolor illustration of a wooden display cabinet filled with various items, including seashells, coral, medals, rolled scrolls, and a framed black-and-white sketch of a person reading by the sea.
StarShipSofa

Rockhoppers

Zohra tussles with a devastating loss, a life-changing find, and herself.

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Far Future Machine Sentience Death Family
Sci-fi illustration of characters in armor facing a large, multi-limbed creature in a misty landscape overlaid with the red and yellow StarShipSofa logo.
Tree And Stone

Triangles Are Forever

Weighed down by her past and beset by threats, Keziah risks it all for love and family.

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Far Future Queer Family
Cover of Tree And Stone, Issue 2, October 2022, "QUEER AS F*", featuring an illustration of two figures embracing in front of a pink floral patterned wall, with one light-haired character reaching up to touch the dark, braided hair of an elf-eared companion.
Anathema Magazine

Semsema of the Zabbaleen

Semsema is caught between clinging to the familiar and venturing into the unknown.

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Near Future Inequality Colonialism Family
Cover of Anathema: Spec from the Margins, Issue 14, December 2021, featuring a stylized graphic illustration of a person sitting at a desk working on a laptop surrounded by tall stacks of paper, with a massive cloud of black smoke billowing from their head against an orange background.
Curiouser Magazine

Immortify

A revolutionary new medication solves all your age-related problems, once and for all!

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Satire Inequality Legal
Cover of Curiouser Magazine, Issue Two, featuring a textured grey and white seashell resting on a glossy, rippled black background.
Sci Phi Journal

Fractal Gods of Minuscule Things

What does the multiverse sound like?

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Religion Multiverse
Cover of SciPhi Journal, 2021, Issue 2, featuring a glowing orange sun superimposed over a red triangle, surrounded by a ring of yellow triangular hazard symbols against a black background.
Andromeda Spaceways Magazine

Arboreal Recovery Cluster, Node 896

Are loneliness, duty, honor, and most of all hope strictly human-only emotions?

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Near Future Machine Sentience Climate Family
Cover of Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Issue 80, September 2020, featuring a purple-haired woman writing at a desk surrounded by books and papers.
Translunar Travelers Lounge

More Than Trinkets

What binds us together? What divides us? How do we find home?

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Far Future Queer Time Dilation
Cover of Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue Three, August 2020, featuring an illustration of rocket ships ascending through thick, layered clouds, leaving glowing bright trails behind them.
Sci Phi Journal

Three Scores and Ten

Are our worst imperatives also our salvation? Could greed ever be truly Good?

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Near Future Aliens
Cover of SciPhi Journal, 2020, Issue 1, "The Immortality Issue", featuring two black-and-white stone relief panels depicting ancient Mesopotamian mythological figures against a solid black background.
Little Blue Marble

In the Teeth of the Gale

What would you sacrifice for a lifelong dream? What wouldn't you?

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Near Future Utopia Climate Family
Cover of Little Blue Marble 2019, featuring a landscape image that juxtaposes rolling sand dunes in the foreground with a massive wall of white glaciers under a clear blue sky.
Sci Phi Journal

Asymptotic Convergence

What is a fate worse than extinction? Is survival truly worth any price?

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Far Future Aliens Machine Sentience
Cover of SciPhi Journal, 2019, Issue 3, featuring a glowing white illustration of a winged angel hovering above the curvature of the Earth against a black space background.