Short Work

Selected Stories

My work has been published or is forthcoming in over ninety magazines and anthologies. Below is a small selection of stories that are free to read online. Full details can be found further down. (SF: science fiction, F: fantasy, H: horror)

‘The Loneliness of Water‘ – Hexagon Magazine (SFF/short)

‘To Catch the Dual-Sunrise‘ – The Commuter, Electric Lit (SF/flash)

‘Patchwork Girls’ – Dark Matter Magazine (SFH/short)

‘A Ring Around’ – Apex Magazine (SFH/Flash)

‘The Constellations of Daughter Death‘ – Flash Fiction Online (F/Flash)

‘The Rift Between Us’ – Uncharted Magazine (SFF/short)

‘The Botanist of Sky City Celeste‘ – AaN Press & SF Caledonia (SF solarpunk/short)

‘Retirement Party’ – Shortwave Magazine (SFH/flash)

‘First Blood‘ – Mslexia and Crow & Cross Keys (H/short)

‘To Replace a Broken Heart’ – Seize The Press (SFH/short)

‘The Last Call of the Deep‘ – Shoreline of Infinity Magazine, #30 (SFF/short)

‘Never Gone’ – EllipsisZine & MetaStellar (H/flash)

‘Not Haunted, Yet‘ – Deadly Drabble Tuesdays, Hungry Shadow Press (H/drabble)

Short Fiction

‘More than Metal’ – Shortwave Publishing (Forthcoming)

‘Mimicry’ – TBA (Forthcoming)

‘Instruction Manual‘ – Trembling with Fear, Horror Tree (November 2025)

‘When the Blood Runs Dry’ – Blood in the Bricks, NewCon Press (November 2025)

‘Under a Bleeding Sky’ – ParSec Magazine, Issue 14 (July 2025)

‘The Rot’ – Apex Books (July 2025)

‘To Reap, To Sow‘ – Analog Science Fiction & Fact (March 2o25)

‘What Lies in the Wreath‘ – Crow & Cross Keys (December 2024)

‘Triphyophyllum Sanguis’ – The Garden, Sans. Press (November 2024)

‘Faceless‘ – Tales to Terrify Podcast (October 2024)

‘Here and There‘ – Crow & Cross Keys (September 2024)

‘Retirement Party’ – Shortwave Magazine (August 2024)

‘We Maintain the Moons’ – Analog Science Fiction & Fact (July 2024)

‘The Walls in This House’ – Why Didn’t You Just Leave, Cursed Morsels Press (May 2024)

‘The Taxidermist’ – Weird Tales Magazine #368, Occult Detective Issue (May 2024)

‘A Ring Around’ – Apex Magazine, Issue #143 and on Patreon (April 2024) and podcasted by Alternative Stories & Fake Realities Podcast.

‘A Change in the Rain’ – Seaside Gothic (April 2024)

‘The Rift Between Us’ – Uncharted Magazine (March 2024)

‘I am a Mushroom God‘ – Deadly Drabble Tuesdays, Hungry Shadow Press (January 2024)

‘Hunting for Rain‘ – Solarpunk Creatures, World Weaver Press (January 2024)

‘Crosswords and Coffee’ – Calliope Interactive, in animated/interactive fiction form (December 2023)

‘Rent-A-Baby: Content Without the Commitment‘ – Thank You For Joining the Algorithm, Tenebrous Press (November 2023)

‘An Offering’ – Flame Tree Press, November Newsletter (November 2023)

‘Seedseeker‘ – Salt & Mirrors & Cats, magazine (November 2023) and podcast.

‘Please Select Your Issue’ – Strange Machines: An Anthology of Dark User Manuals, Apex Magazine (October 2023)

‘To Gut a Fish, First Gather its Bones‘ – Monster Lairs, Dark Matter INK (October 2023)

‘The Constellations of Daughter Death‘ – Issue 121, Flash Fiction Online (October 2023)

‘Sleep Well, My Prince‘ – Luna Station Quarterly (September 2023)

‘Sugarspun‘ – Issue 14, Hexagon Magazine (September 2023)

‘The Medium’s Assistant’ – BFS Horizons #16, 2nd Place Winner in British Fantasy Society Short Story Competition 2022 (July 2023)

‘To Catch the Dual-Sunrise‘ – The Commuter, Electric Lit (July 2023)

‘Space for One‘ – Wyldblood Magazine (July 2023)

‘The Botanist of Sky City Celeste‘ – The Dérive, Air & Nothingness Press (July 2023) and in SF Caledonia (October 2024)

‘When Death Comes Calling‘ – Soor Ploom Press, online and in Short and Sweet: Volume Two (July 2023)

‘Rain Days in Biodome Three‘ – Scratching the Sands: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2023, National Flash Fiction Day (June 2023)

‘The Gathering’ – Shortwave Magazine (June 2023)

‘Hush, Little Sister‘ – Obsolescence, Shortwave Publishing (May 2023)

‘The Sea Mither’s Welcome’ – Spell Sounds: Sea and Shore, Alternative Stories & Fake Realities Podcast (May 2023)

‘I Never Wanted a Rose Garden‘ – Tales to Terrify Podcast (April 2023)

‘Not Haunted, Yet‘ – Deadly Drabble Tuesdays, Hungry Shadow Press (April 2023)

‘The Bee Bearer‘ – Shoreline of Infinity Magazine (March 2023)

‘Unfurl‘ – Janus Literary (March 2023)

‘Woman of Ravens’ – The Crow’s Quill: Covens, Quill & Crow Publishing (March 2023)

‘The Loneliness of Water‘ – Issue 12, Hexagon Magazine (March 2023) Recommended in March 2023 “Queer Short SFF” and reviewed and recommended in Locus Magazine by Charles Payseur. Reprinted in Shadows on the Water, Flame Tree Press.

‘Every Part of You’ – OOZE: Little Bursts of Body Horror (February 2023) Reprinted in Year’s Best Arthropod Fiction Vol 1., Hexagon Magazine, and in PseudoPod. (August 2024)

‘To Replace a Broken Heart’ – Seize The Press (January 2023)

‘Wisp in the Dark’ – The Maul Magazine (January 2023)

‘Patchwork Girls’ – Issue 012, Dark Matter Magazine (November 2022)

‘The Whispering Bones‘ – Orion’s Belt Magazine (November 2022)

‘The Forest Awaits’ – No More Fairytales: Stories to Save Our Planet, Green Stories Project, COP27 Anthology – more info here (November 2022)

‘A Tale of Two Meads‘– Tales From the Year Between – Volume 4 – 1987, Skullgate Media (November 2022)

‘Cat’s Eyes‘ – Planetside: Science Fiction Drabbles, Shacklebound Books (November 2022)

‘A Heart Turned to Stone‘ – Daughter of Sarpedon, Brigids Gate Press (October 2022)

‘(Un)censored‘ – Tangled Web Magazine (September 2022) – Also featured as Issue’s ‘Spotlight Author’, with interview discussing story here.

‘The Woman of Thorns and the Honeycomb Queen‘ – Flame Tree Press, and in Wade, Ellipsis Zine #12 (September 2022)

‘A Song for Life and Death‘ – Orpheus + Eurydice Unbound, Air and Nothingness Press (July 2022)

‘An Orderly Queue‘ – The Write-In, National Flash Fiction Day (June 2022)

‘How to Harvest Ghosts: A Five Step Guide and Inventory‘ – Flash Flood, National Flash Fiction Day, and reprinted for International Ghost Appreciation Society launch event (June 2022)

‘First Days‘ – Issue Eight, Summer 2022 – Discovery, Paperbound Magazine (June 2022)

‘The Last Call of the Deep‘ – Shoreline of Infinity Magazine, #30 – available in print and online (April 2022) Reviewed in nerds of a feather, flock together here.

‘Be Still, Iron Heart‘ – Myriad Zine, Hexagon Magazine (April 2022) Reprinted in Into the Forest, Space Cat Press

‘Huntress, Enchantress, Murderess’ – Ghostlore: Wilderness, Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast (I was also Editor for this project) (April 2022)

‘Sing Sorrow to the Sea and the Waves Will Answer‘ – Ghostlore: Wilderness, Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast (I was also Editor for this project) (March 2022)

‘The Bone Tree‘ – 206 Word Stories: A Horror Anthology, Bag of Bones Press (February 2022)

‘Vacancy‘ – Soor Ploom Press (February 2022) Also published in print.

‘The Lighthouse Seer‘ – Issue #4, Northern Gravy (January 2022)

‘Nuckelavee Winter‘ – British Fantasy Society – (December 2021) – Reprinted Wyldblood Magazine (March 2022)

‘First Blood‘ – Shortlisted in Mslexia Short Story Competition 2021 and published in Best Women’s Short Fiction 2021, Mslexia (December 2021), and reprinted in Crow & Cross Keys (March 2023). Forthcoming translation in Dutch in Speculatief.

‘The Lion’ – Corvid Queen, Sword & Kettle Press (November 2021)

‘Never Gone’ – EllipsisZine (October 2021) – Reprinted in MetaStellar (March 2022)

‘Art of Ariadne’ – Lost, Looking & Found, Edinburgh Literary Salon and Merchiston Publishing (August 2021)

‘Goddess Interrupted‘ – Liars’ League – Women & Girls Theme Winner – Published online and in audio/podcast format (August 2021)

‘The Whispering‘– Dark Drabbles, Black Hare Press (August 2021)

‘Nesting’ Dark Moon Digest #44, Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing (July 2021) and reprinted with Crow & Cross Keys (September 2022)

‘Two Faces of Winter‘ – Spiritus Mundi, Cunning Folk Magazine (May 2021)

‘House for Sale‘– Hundred Word Horror: Beneath, Ghost Orchid Press (April 2021) Reprint in National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood (July 2023)

‘Secrets of the Sea’ – Where Do You See Yourself In Five Years? Forest Publishing Chapbook (March 2021)

‘Daughter of Fire and Water’ – Two-Part Audio Drama for Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast – Part One, Part Two (February 2021) Podcast reached #63 in UK Drama Podcast Chart

‘The Day My Body Left’ – We Are Not Shadows, Folkways Press (February 2021)

‘How I Wonder’ – EllipsisZine (October 2020)

‘Lessons in Fate’ – MookyChick (October 2020)

‘The Weeping Willow’ – Transformation, Analogies and Allegories Literary Magazine (July 2020)

‘Flesh and Blood’ – Retreat West , Second place, Monthly Micro Fiction Competition (July 2020)

‘A Kelpie’s Breath’ – The Great Margin – published as part of Stay at Home Fest Residency (July 2020)

‘Second Skin’ – Lightbox Originals, Runner Up, 100-words Story Competition (July 2020)

‘The European Pen Pal Programme for Incarcerated Criminals’ – Quaranzine, Malefaction Mag (June 2020)

‘A Space to Inhabit’ – Liars’ League – Lockdown Literature Event, Mystery and Suspense Theme Winner – Published online and in audio/podcast format (June 2020)

‘Seeds of the Undying’ – MookyChick (April 2020)

‘Dreamcatcher’ – Stay At Home Fest, Emerging Writer in Residence (April 2020)

‘Echo Chamber’ – Runner-up Cymera Fest Prize for Speculative Fiction with Shoreline of Infinity (June 2019)

‘The Commute’ – The Fiction Pool Online (May 2018)

Hands/cups illustration from Cunning Folk Magazine, Spiritus Mundi © Liam Lefr.

Essays and Non-Fiction

‘Trusting the Unexpected Journey’ – British Fantasy Society Blog (April 2024)

Climate Change Special Guest Editor and Feature Q&A with Kim Stanley Robinson –Shoreline of Infinity Magazine, Issue #36 (October 2023)

‘Seeing Death: Exploring Dark Omens from Scottish Folklore‘ – The Deadlands (August 2023)

‘Following the Will-o’-the-Wisp‘ – Cunning Folk Magazine – Fire Issue (October 2021)

‘Writing Inspiration from Folklore and Myth’ – Write On! Magazine, Pen to Print (May 2021)

Co-contributor – Imagine A Country, Canongate (March 2020) – the piece was also selected to be published as part of Books From Scotland‘s Edwin Morgan Issue here.

Feature Writing Editor and Contributor – Young Geographer Magazine: Arctic Perspectives, including ‘The Plight of Our Planet’ and interview with Greta Thunberg (December 2019)