Fiction
Fiction
dick pig
Nightmare Magazine, January 2022
Audio: “Dick Pig”
Finalist: Nebula Award, Best Short Story; Locus Award, Short Story; Shirley Jackson Award, Short Story
Selection: We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction of 2022
Reprint: Brute: Stories of Dark Desire, Masculinity & Rough Trade
A man staying in his late aunt’s secluded home has a disquieting Grindr conversation.
“…a superb, atmospheric horror tale”—Publishers Weekly
“Holy hell, this short story is spectacular”—Sarah Gailey, author of “Just Like Home”
“When I first read ‘Dick Pig,’ the text had me yelling ‘yes sir’ right out loud”—Meg Elison, author of “The Book of the Unnamed Midwife”
Cover Art by Jade Zhang
still Water
Anathema: Spec from the Margins, August 2019
A troubled couple takes a kayaking trip that leads them into new, unsettling waters.
“[C]omplex and sensual…gorgeous and rending and so, so good” —Charles Payseur
“A vivid, moving, haunting piece”—Vanessa Fogg
Cover Art by Joachim Luetke
impostor/impostor
Black Static, September/October 2018
Reprint: The Dark #44, January 2019
Three artists live together during an uneasy winter as one becomes convinced a fourth lives among them.
“[A] deliciously disturbing slice of horror, twisting reality in small but strikingly effective ways…creating the kind of nightmare that feels like everyday reality until it clearly is something else” --Maria Haskins
Story art by Gabriella Eriksson
Salt lines
Strange Horizons, May 2018
Audio: “Salt Lines”
Longlist: BSFA Award, Best Shorter Fiction
A man is followed home by a specter from the stories of his childhood.
"[A] beautifully written story full of longing"--A.C. Wise, Apex Magazine
"[A]n intimate tale of loneliness and pain, a piece that blends a deep emotional realism with the fantastic." --Vanessa Fogg
Cover art by Luke Spooner
hidden in skin
Gamut, September 2017
A young drag queen's attempted robbery has devastating consequences.
"Muneshwar's horror-tale is a brilliant, dark, gut- and heart-wrenching story of transformation and ambition" --Maria Haskins
Cover art by Tomislav Tikulin
Skins smooth as plantain, hearts soft as mango
The Dark, August 2017
Selections: The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2018; Year’s Best Weird Fiction, vol. 5
In 1950's Guyana, a boy with a beast in his stomach struggles to find his place in an increasingly fractured city.
" [R]ich with sensory descriptions....It’s a story that pulls the reader in, and allows them to feel the world fully, including the darkness under the skin." --A.C. Wise, Apex Magazine
"[N]icely written with outstanding description...and characterization." --Paula Guran, Locus Magazine
Artwork by Florian Giorgio
Ravana's children
PodCastle, May 2017
Audio: “Ravana’s Children”
A spurned god visits two children, one in 1970's Guyana and the other in Queens at the turn of the millenium.
Cover art by Tracy Durnell
the falling game
Liminal Stories, May 2017
A connection develops between an alien and a missionary from irreconcilably different cultures.
Cover art by Galen Dara
telomerase
An Alphabet of Embers, ed. Rose Lemberg
Audio: Podcastle #616, “Telomerase”
Spanish-Language Translation: Cuentos para Algernon, “Telomerasa”
An elderly couple copes with loss: as one fights cancer, the other loses their language.
"A moving story of what we say when we have no words" --Karen Burnham, Strange Horizons
Cover art by Julie Dillon
ossuary
Clarkesworld, May 2015
Audio: “Ossuary”
An A.I.'s encounter with a dying creature sets the machine on an unexpected course.
"[The story's] lingering images...are powerful and well done" --Charles Payseur