Short Stories

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“You Inside Me,” upcoming in Glittership“Please, may I have your liver” was too much to ask, and “Please, I don’t want to die” was a poor argument.

Upon Your Marriage to a Redcap,” first published in Iridium Zine April 2018. Interspecies marriages can’t survive without compromise.

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Cover for a short story entitled "Stay." A bright red orchid sits against the blades of a pair of vintage hedge trimmers.

 

Stay,” a fantasy short story. A girl is born with magic, but a woman can choose how to use it. Maria is an herb witch fading into old age and finally forgetting old mistakes. When Catherine, her first friend and girlhood temptation, comes begging to be rescued, Maria has to choose between mercy and her increasingly murky principles.

 

Cover for "In the Bedroom," a short story by Tori Curtis. A high window looks out into the world.

 

In the Bedroom,” a science fiction short story. They have a beautiful family – something Paris had despaired of ever having as a teenager – and even nursing his husband through a sudden illness is its own kind of joy. But when the fever breaks, something has changed.