2025 Award Eligibility
Stories eligible for Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and Stoker awards. I am also eligible for the Astounding Award (first year of eligibility!) Please contact me via my form if you need any copies. Thanks for reading!
Published in: Apex Magazine #148 (January 2025)
Word Count: 988
Genre: horror (speculative)
“It wasn’t until the guttural whir of the vacuum turned to a monstrous shriek that I snapped out of it.”
- Body horror about grief and the difficulty of letting go.
-Reviewed at Tangent Online
-Recommended on Antony FB’s Nefarious Narratives on the Net
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2. “The Earth Will Not Consume Our Bones”
Published in: Nature: Futures (September 2025)
Word Count: 949 words
Genre: science fiction
“Those of us lucky enough to still have eyelids wink in the darkness.”
-Robot sci-fi that asks the question, what happens to the technology that outlives us?
-Recommended on Myna’s Microverse Flash Roundup September 2025
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illustration by Jacey
Published in: Harvest the Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror (October 2025)
Word Count: 3,500 words
Genre: horror (speculative)
“Something flutters past her field of sight. A flash of white. Another brown. Yellow. An eclipse of moths emerge from the moss, perch on the skull.”
-Folk horror about strange things in the woods and spreading seeds of doubt.
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Published in: F(r)iction #24: Oceans (July 2025)
Word Count: about 6,500 words
Genre: science fiction
“Stilts squelching in and out of the toxic sludge below them filled the silence between Nine and Aurelia as they crossed the flood.”
- Post-apocalyptic sci-fi about found family and belonging in a flood ravaged world.
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Published in: Fraidy Cat Quarterly #7: Rage (November 2025)
Word Count: about 4,200 words
Genre: horror (speculative)
“Every time the memories surfaced, it felt as if her mouth was stuffed with cotton. Her hand reached for her throat, wanting to claw the cotton out.”
- A young woman’s encounters with a strange creature and wandering eyes will have you asking, who is the real best of this story?
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Published in: The Saturday Evening Post (November 2025)
Word Count: about 4,500 words
Genre: fantasy/fabulism
“For much of Emily’s memory, her grandmother, Ava, had spent each morning sitting in her gray recliner like this, a craft in hand, blanketed in the sunrise sparkling across the ocean visible outside the living room window.”
- A grandmother teaches her granddaughter how to stitch memories into a quilt.
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