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After the Rain

Genre: SF/Solarpunk

When vandalism is discovered in a cooperative community, the residents set out to find the culprits.

Published in Escape Pod – May 2025
Twelve Things that Will Occur Immediately Following Your Invention of Teleportation

Genre: SF/Humor

A lot can go wrong when your cat gets your teleportation device.

Published in Factor Four – April 2025
The Underlying Cause of Her Insomnia

Genre: H/Dark F

A woman with insomnia takes extreme measures to get some rest.

Published in The Horror Tree’s Trembling with Fear – February 2025
Hard Times at the Four Pines Motel

Genre: SF

The invention of teleportation seems like a good thing…at first.

Published in Short Édition/Short Circuit – January 2025
The Life You’ve Given Me, Rusty

Genre: SF

A boy raised by a machine risks everything to save his people.

Published in Lightspeed Magazine – October 2024
Side Effects May Vary

Genre: SF

A man learns the hard way what can happen when your nanobots go rogue.

Published as the winner of the Unicorn Mech Suit Short Story Contest – September 2024
Chief Scavenger’s Log in the Climate Apocalypse

Genre: SF

Is it possible to find love in post-apocalyptic times?

Published in Interstellar Flight Magazine – July
2024.
Free

Genre: SF

A human/alien hybrid escapes the facility where she was created.

Published in The Bronzeville Bee – February 2020.
Reprinted in Tall Tale TV – June 2024.
Decorative
Genre: SF
What responsibility comes with creating machines that can feel?
Published in Compelling Science Fiction Short Stories – August 2022.
Reprinted in Radon Journal – May 2024.
Face the Music by P.A. Cornell
Genre: SFF/Superhero
Click to read in Factor Four
The Procedure by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Science Fiction
Click to read in Abyss & Apex
The Body Remembers by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Sci-fi/Horror
Click to read or listen to in PseudoPod
Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Fantasy
Click to read or listen to in Fantasy Magazine
The Collective Memories of Dogs and Robots

Genre: SF

A dog and a robot discuss their experiences with humanity.

Published in Augur Magazine, Issue 6.1 – July 2023
8 Laws I Wound Up Breaking While Attempting to Restore the Timeline by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Sci-fi/Humor
Click to read in Nature Futures
The Bullet in My Pocket Has Your Name on It by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Science Fiction
Click to read in Cossmass Infinities
A World Unto Myself by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Science Fiction
Click to read in Apex Magazine
Tabula Rasa by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Sci-fi/fantasy
Click to read in Polar Borealis
Things Most Meaningful by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Fantasy
Click to read or listen to in Worlds of Possibility
440 Broad Street, Apartment 4C by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Science Fiction
Click to read in Frivolous Comma
How to Impress a Top Food Critic and Put Your Restaurant on the Galactic Map by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Sci-fi/Humor
Click to read or listen to in The Drabblecast
Vinyl Wisdom by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Science Fiction
Click to read in Haven Speculative
A Fall Backward Through the Hourglass by P.A Cornell
Genre: Fantasy
Click to read in Cossmass Infinities
They Fell to Earth in a Downpour by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Science Fiction
Click to read in Frozen Wavelets
Nine Lives by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Fantasy
Click to read in If There's Anyone Left, Volume 2
Lost Beyond the Lights by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Science Fiction
Click to read in Little Blue Marble
Splits by P.A. Cornell
Genre: Sci-fi/Fantasy
Winner of the 2022 Short Works Prize for Fiction
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