All This
David and Jazz spend their first Christmas together.
They were still an hour away from the house when it started to snow, fat and fluffy flakes that clung to the windshield and the wipers and the road equally. It even stuck to the street signs, driven by an increasingly bitter wind. David was glad he was the one driving.
Victoria’s Children
Alternate history, steampunk, disguises, and intrigue.
Jack was, like God, a noticer of small things, of falling sparrows and pavement cracks and the thousand details that made a woman in English society distinct from a woman in any other society. Mrs Merriweather Ashmore had none of those thousand things about her. It had taken Jack most of an evening’s observation to determine that this was not because she was French, or Italian, or Russian, or even from the American colonies. It was because she was not a woman.
Long Hook Light
Written for a prompt from my lovely patrons: sad robots, but make it a love story.
Hook is a cluster of brain cells in a rusting canister. The cells are human, but Hook is not. Its body is the glass and metal tube that forms Stellar Lighthouse 154. It has been, in the distant past, a pocket of light in the void, a safe haven, a home. It is none of those things now.
Eating the Moon
There are monsters walking among the unsuspecting residents of a remote commune in the Wisconsin woods. Jane knows because she’s one of them.
It’s 1970. The rest of America is talking about the moon landing and the war in Vietnam, but Jane’s more concerned with local news, like the crooked sheriff who was threatening her friends.
He’s not a threat anymore, but Meredith, strange and silent, knows what Jane has done to him and where she goes during the full moon. She proposes an exchange of secrets that binds them closer than Jane could have imagined.
Short story, 1500 words.
Summer Heart
Steve and Bobby fell in love in the lush green of an Iowa summer. Separated by the Vietnam War and years of trauma, they meet again and start to put each other back together.
Gay historical fiction, approximately 3000 words, previously published in Shousetsu Bang Bang as “My Life in a Blueberry Pie”.