Category Archives: Short fiction

Shark (a story for Haiti)

“Shark” is an excerpt from the novel-in-progress Cold, posted online for free as part of Crossed Genres’ Post a Story for Haiti project. Please donate to Haiti earthquake relief. Continue reading

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Me, the killer

About “Mercy,” a piece I wrote in response to a theme on “you, the killer” for the Scheherazade Project. Imagining killing someone was hard enough on me that I hope never to be called upon to do it for real. Continue reading

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How to Find Your True Love: A Method

A tale of tattoos & dykely romance in an Anchorage queer bar. Continue reading

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Now I REALLY feel like a writer again

The short story “Cold,” which originated with my writing for NaNoWriMo 2007, will be published in the November 2009 issued of Crossed Genres. It’s about two young women, Boleyn & Bai, on a planet in the late stages of terraformation. Continue reading

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Eating (& breathing & crapping) in outer space

Research notes on closed ecosystems in outer space, for “Long Dark,” a story I’m trying to write in the same story universe as my 2007 NaNoWriMo “novel” Cold. Continue reading

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Goldilocks & the Three Bears: A Retelling

A tragic tale of bears, identity theft, & a blonde gone terribly, terribly wrong. Continue reading

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Mercy

From Kadu’s point of view: what she lives with, having killed a man to effect her escape from her greatest enemy. This is a new writing based on an original narrative account written for a collaboration with a friend. Which, who knows, one day we may get back to. Continue reading

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