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My story “The Hedge-Witch of Welland” is out now in the Summer 2021 issue of Kaleidotrope!

This story was co-written with Jacqueline Flay. It’s a post-apocalyptic story about two witches living in a little cottage near Niagara Falls, dinosaurs, survivor guilt, and healing.

It was a very long road to publishing this one – to give you some idea, it was first accepted by the “Start a Revolution: QUILTBAG Transmutations” anthology back in 2014, which was sadly never published – and “Start a Revolution” wasn’t the first place we submitted it to. I’m so happy to see it finding a home online at last.

Content Notes: “The Hedge-Witch of Welland” has a happy ending, but it does contain depictions of physical and religious abuse in flashback scenes.

A new story is out today, “Variations on a Theme from Turandot,” in the May 14 issue of Strange Horizons.

This is a story with an unusually long story behind it. I first started wanting to write something like it in 2010. What started as a vague “I want to write a fix-it fic” urge became exponentially more complicated and strange the more I thought about it, and then the various beta reads, personal rejections, and rewrite requests I received only complicated it even more.

Turandot is an absurd, racist, sexist, Orientalist, rape-culture-endorsing, absolutely-no-sense-making opera that Puccini never actually finished writing. It is also my favorite opera. I am a complicated person.

As I have time (which is unfortunately in short supply right now, because grad school) I will hopefully be able to post some story notes, talking about the research and rewrites that went into this story. For now, you can simply read and enjoy. But do take care to check the content warnings first, please, because shit gets dark in Turandot and my feeble attempts to grapple with that subject matter have only made it darker.