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8 Laws I Wound Up Breaking While Attempting to Restore the Timeline
Genre: Science Fiction/Humor
When a time-travel mishap erases his best friend, a man attempts to fix his mistake. 
  • (download the pdf below)​​
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The Bullet in My Pocket Has Your Name on It
Genre: Science Fiction
Driven by his need for revenge, a man hunts down the woman responsible for his being left to die on an Earth with dwindling resources.
  • Read in Cossmass Infinities

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A World Unto Myself
Genre: Science Fiction
A decommissioned robot searches for new purpose and meaning.
  • Read in Apex Magazine

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Things Most Meaningful
Genre: Fantasy
A girl is given a magical box in which to store the things that are most meaningful to her, but she quickly learns that the things with most meaning, are not things.
  • Read or Listen to in Worlds of Possibility

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Tabula Rasa
​(Originally published in Departure Mirror Quarterly)
Genre: Sci-fi/Fantasy
An unexplained anomaly causes everyone on Earth to lose their memory every five years. This time something is different for Shannon, because she still has hers, and with it an opportunity to change her life.
  • Download Polar Borealis Issue 25 

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440 Broad Street, Apartment 4C
Genre: Science Fiction
A diverse group of neighbors come together to support each other during an alien invasion.
  • ​Read in Frivolous Comma

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Splits
Genre: Science Fiction
A temporal anomaly causes people to split into several versions of themselves from different points in their life. 
  • "Splits" is the winner of the 2022 Short Works Prize for Fiction. It was originally published in ​Cossmass Infinities, Issue 6, in 2021. Read this award-winning story here. 

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How to Impress a Top Food Critic and Put Your Restaurant on the Galactic Map
Genre: Sci-fi/humor
A chef must prepare a dish for a renowned food critic, but that's the easy part. Gathering the ingredients? Therein lies the challenge.
  • Listen on The Drabblecast 
  • Read in The Tentaculum (Free download of Issue 1)

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Vinyl Wisdom
(Originally published in the anthology, A Punk Rock Future)
Genre: Science Fiction (post-apocalyptic)
Joey never knew life in the old world, and the way things are now isn't great, so he's considering his options. But this puts him at odds with his grandfather, John, and his "gospel of punk." 
  • ​Read in Haven Speculative

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A Fall Backward Through the Hourglass
Genre: Fantasy
A woman begins aging backward upon the birth of her daughter​.
  • ​Read in Cossmass Infinities

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Nine Lives
Genre: Fantasy
A person finds a cat that literally has 9 lives.
  • Read in If There's Anyone Left: Volume 2

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​Lost Beyond the Lights
Genre: Science Fiction (Environmental)
A grandfather takes his daughter and her children to witness the spectacle of Halley's Comet, so they can experience the wonder he did, as a child, but much has changed in the ensuing years.
  • Read in Little Blue Marble

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They Fell to Earth in a Downpour
Genre: Science Fiction
A girl makes first contact with alien beings as they arrive on Earth in what at first appears to be a storm.
  • Read in Frozen Wavelets
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