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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 X 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".
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 X 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 X 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".
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 X 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.
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 X 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.
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 X 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 X 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.
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 X 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 X 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 X 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 X 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 X 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.
Translunar Travelers Lounge

More Than Trinkets

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

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Far Future X 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

Asymptotic Convergence

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

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Far Future X 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.