Where to Read Me

As far as I can tell, this is everything of mine that you can get to on the internet. A lot of my older work was published in magazines that no longer maintain their archives, which thankfully (uh, I mean unfortunately) means that it will not be seeing the light of day anytime soon. If you’re trying to get access to a specific older piece, or if you need access to a paywalled piece of mine but can’t afford to buy a copy, please do email me and I’ll see what I can do.

Fiction
One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve, my body horror/codependency novella, available now from Tenebrous Press. Order from the publisher, request it at your local library or bookstore, or find the ebook at Godless and other outlets.


“After School Program,”
my contribution to the Los Suelos, California mythos, its darling cult leader Hibiscus Bernard, and his calculating relationship with the film industry
“Apartémon,” a story about playing an AR game and never leaving your apartment again in The Dread Machine
“The Apology,” a story about fake contrition and Colorado in the Amazon dot com dystopia in Shoreline of Infinity
“As I Wait for the Killing Blow,” my grandmapunk story in Fireside Magazine. Audio version in Cast of Wonders
“The Cure for Loneliness,” my quarantine plant lady story in Apex Magazine, including an interview from Marissa van Uden (buy the issue here)
“The Gnome,” a story about very strange straight people problems in Sinking City
“Man vs. Bomb,” a primer on becoming a prey species in Fantasy Magazine
“My Dad Bought a Space Shuttle,” a story about being a trans teen with a shitty dad who worships billionaires in Voyage YA. Reprinted in We’re Here: the Year’s Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022 (forthcoming)
“Objects at Rest,” the one with the kangaroo scrotum in Valparaiso Fiction Review
“One Long Staircase, Just Going Up,” in which the protagonist is The 500 Richest Earth Men in Cosmic Contact: First Contact Stories (forthcoming)
“Roots in the Ground,” the one with the nudist dendrophiles in Cosmic Horror Monthly (forthcoming)
“The Only Friend You Ever Need,” a very old story in Crossed Genres (archived)

Poetry
“Suitcase Full of Rats” in The Bullshit Anthology (print, ebook)
Gross Anatomy, a chapbook of completely normal poems about the thoughts one has while cutting up dead bodies
A Race Between the Air and the Bullets, a chapbook of linked poems about rich war profiteers sending their children to a boarding school in the sky while ocean acidification kills off all the phytoplankton and the planet runs out of oxygen
“Poem About Bees,” cowritten with Julie River and Bennett Nieberg (video)
“I Wish People Would Stop Pretending Mario Kart Is Fun (It’s Not)” in Geek Out!: Queer Pop Lit, Art & Ideas
“Lebron James Sex Tape” (video)

Personal Essay
“Cookie Cutter Money Prison Online,” an essay about Ultima Online and bleak Midwestern suburbia in Cartridge Lit
“Pokemon Red Is a Kafkaesque Nightmare,” an essay about first-generation Pokemon games and second-generation Holocaust diaspora in Cartridge Lit

Criticism

A mini-essay on what makes Midnight Mass so scary in Exploits: an Unwinnable Publication (select Issue 47 from the dropdown menu)
“The Author of Cat Person,” a review of You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian at Fiction Unbound
“The Interrogation of Reality,” a review of The Butterfly Lampshade by Aimee Bender at Fiction Unbound
“My Least Favorite C-Word,” a mini-essay on Anna and the Apocalypse (2018) in Exploits: an Unwinnable Publication
“Schrodinger’s Book,” a mini-essay on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series in Exploits: an Unwinnable Publication (select Issue 40 from the dropdown menu)