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A Country Called Winter
Conversations with the Sea Witch
Queen Lily
Snow, Blood, Fur
Come See the Living Dryad
To Budapest, with Love
Red as Blood and White as Bone
In Autumn
Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology
Estella Saves the Village
England under the White Witch
Beautiful Boys
Christopher Raven
Fair Ladies
The Mad Scientist’s Daughter
Child-Empress of Mars
Catherine and the Satyr
Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon
Singing of Mount Abora
Pip and the Fairies
Her Mother’s Ghosts
Lily, with Clouds
Sleeping with Bears
Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold
The Rapid Advance of Sorrow
The Rose in Twelve Petals

My story “Lost Girls of Oz” is available as a Kindle single.

Stories Published

“Saint Orsola and the Poet,” original to The Collected Enchantments, 2023.

“Reynalda,” original to The Collected Enchantments, 2023.

“Pellargonia: A Letter to the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology,” Lost Worlds and Mythological Kingdoms, 2022. The Year’s Best Fantasy, Volume 2, 2023. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2023.

“A Letter to Merlin,” Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, 2022. The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time 3, 2023.

“Frankenstein’s Daughter,” Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, 2020.

A Country Called Winter,” original to Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems, 2019. Lightspeed Magazine, November 2019.

“How to Become a Witch-Queen,” Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery,” 2019.

Conversations with the  Sea Witch,” Tor.com, January 10, 2019. The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 1, 2020.

Queen Lily,” Lightspeed Magazine, November 2018.

Snow, Blood, Fur,” Daily Science Fiction, November 17, 2018.

Come See the Living Dryad,” Tor.com, March 9, 2017. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve, 2018.

To Budapest, with Love,” Uncanny Magazine 14, January/February 2017.

“The Other Thea,” The Starlit Wood, 2016.

Red as Blood and White as Bone,” Tor.com, May 4, 2016. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven, 2017. The Long List Anthology: Volume 3, 2017.

In Autumn,” Daily Science Fiction, November 13, 2015.

Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology,” Lightspeed Magazine, July 2014.  Nowy Fantastyka, November 2014 (Polish). The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine, 2015.  The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2015, 2015.  The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2015. Cuentos Para Algernon, October 17, 2016 (Spanish).

“Elena’s Egg,” Exotic Gothic 5, 2013. Lightspeed Magazine, September 2018.

“Blanchefleur,” Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales, 2013.  The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2014, 2014.

“Lost Girls of Oz,” Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond, 2013.

Estella Saves the Village,” Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, 2013.  Lightspeed Magazine, September 2015.

England under the White Witch,” Clarkesworld 73, October 2012.  The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2013, 2013. Clarkesworld: Year Seven, 2015.

Beautiful Boys,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2012. Angle Mort 8, November 2012 (French). The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven, 2013.  Lightspeed Magazine, January 2015.  Hayakawa Magazine, December 2015 (Japanese).

“Woola’s Song,” Under the Moons of Mars, 2012.

Christopher Raven,” Ghosts by Gaslight, 2011. Fantasy Magazine, November 2011. Hayakawa Magazine, February 2013 (Japanese).

“Pug,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2011. The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2012, 2012.

Fair Ladies,” Apex Magazine, August 2010. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 5, 2011. The Book of Apex: Volume 3 of Apex Magazine, 2012.

The Mad Scientist’s DaughterStrange Horizons, January 2010. Hayakawa Magazine, July 2012 (Japanese). The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, 2013. XB-1, July 2018 (Czech).

Child-Empress of Mars,” Interfictions 2, 2009. The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010. Lightspeed Magazine, January 2012.  XB-1, October 2013 (Czech).

“Csilla’s Story,” Other Earths, April 2009.

“The Puma,” Apex Magazine, March 2009. Tails of Wonder and Imagination, 2010. Descended from Darkness, 2010. The Book of Apex: Volume 1 of Apex Magazine, 2010.

Catherine and the Satyr,” Strange Horizons, October 2007. Handsome Devils: Tales of Sin and Seduction, 2014.

Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon,” Realms of Fantasy, June 2007. Year’s Best Fantasy 8, 2008. Lightspeed Magazine, June 2013. Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold, 2016.

Singing of Mount Abora,” Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories, 2007. Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, 2008. Galaktika 228, March 2009 (Hungarian). Hayakawa Magazine, December 2009 (Japanese). Lightspeed Magazine, July 2012.

“Conrad,” original to In the Forest of Forgetting, 2006.

“Letters from Budapest,” Alchemy 3, May 2006. Best New Fantasy 2, 2007. Trochu Divné Kusy 3, 2007 (Czech).

“Lessons With Miss Gray,” Fantasy Magazine 2, April 2006. Witches: Wicked, Wild and Wonderful, 2012.

“Death Comes for Ervina,” Polyphony 5, November 2005.

Pip and the Fairies,” Strange Horizons, October 2005. Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005, 2006. Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006. Best New Fantasy, 2006. Trochu Divné Kusy 2, 2006 (Czech). Nowa Fantastyka 7, July 2007 (Polish).

“A Statement in the Case,” Realms of Fantasy, August 2005. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection, 2006.

“The Belt,” Flytrap 4, May 2005.

Her Mother’s Ghosts.” Original to The Rose in Twelve Petals and Other Stories, 2004. Clarkesworld Magazine 23, August 2008.  Mithila Review 3, May 2016.

“The Wings of Meister Wilhelm,” Polyphony 4, September 2004. The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens, 2005. People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010.

“Miss Emily Gray,” Alchemy 2, August 2004. Year’s Best Fantasy 5, 2005.  The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women, 2015.

Lily, with Clouds,” Alchemy 1, December 2003. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection, 2004. Lightspeed Magazine, April 2016.

Sleeping with BearsStrange Horizons, November 2003. Mythmakers, 2006 (Russian).

“In the Forest of Forgetting,” Realms of Fantasy, October 2003. Simulacrum 7, November 2004.

Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold,” Polyphony 2, April 2003. Year’s Best Fantasy 4, 2004. World SF Blog, 2012.

The Rapid Advance of Sorrow,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 11, November 2002. Fantastic Metropolis, July 2003. Polaris 3, August 2003 (Serbian). The Apocalypse Reader, 2007. The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 2007. Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka, 2011. Apex Magazine, 2011. Trubadurs 4, October-December 2014 (Bulgarian). Fantastika Chronika 25, Fall 2017 (Greek).

The Rose in Twelve Petals,” Realms of Fantasy, April 2002. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection, 2003. Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, 2006. Happily Ever After, 2011.