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The Time Walkers
Published in Kaleidotrope Magazine, Winter 2024 issue
“All it takes is a moment. One moment where a body reaches out to another and meets. They reach and reach, and finally pull to one another, and - bam. Shay followed the pull and slipped between the morning and the evening, in a space where time holds its breath and all possibilities collide.”
As the Crow Flies
HyphenPunk Magazine. 2022.
“There’s some new thing bursting into being every five minutes. And if you try to track a star, you’ll find your eyes crossing cause it shifts through the thick clouds. Here one minute, there the next.
Naw, hon, I’m not sure one’s better than the other. But I know which world I’d choose. And I know what lil Parley chose, near about half a lifetime ago.”
The Sky-Eaters’ Nest
Solarpunk Magazine. Issue #3, May 2022.
“Y’all heard tell of the Sky-Eaters, right? Always tucked in the shadow of the twin moons, where they feast on moonbeams, sky fruit, and acid fog. But I bet you ain’t heard tell of how they came to be.”
Mondegreen
Nox Pareidolia 2, Nightscape Press. Publication date TBA.
“Now I’m sure your families told y’all ‘bout ole Shadow-Eyes. Appeared outta nowhere, right - made-a chance and stardust. Slinks ‘round the edge of Wayward Forest leavin’ pretty lil gems and flowers and bones for those who wander in too deep. Well, I met ole Shadow-Eyes. Years ago - so young I hadn’t even slapped on my first hormone patch.”
Blood on the Moon
“Crickets and cicadas grew thunderous in their silence. I made the mistake of looking up at them and saw their faces slowly contort with the anger and shock they felt for me. I felt small.
“Oh, fuck,” Jenna finally spoke.”