The Poison Apple
Snow is woken up on board the right spaceship, but by the wrong person. As she struggles to regain her strength after years in stasis, she suddenly finds herself face to face with the evil queen. This humorous retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves takes place in the deep, dark vacuum of space.
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THe Ghost Below
As a punishment, White Rabbit is sent to run cables in the bowels of the spaceship. While working, she discovers that the ship's ghost might be more than he seems. It's part of the anthology, Spectral Tales. (A version of this story was rewritten and is available as a prequel to the Rove City series.)
The Greenhouse Gas
Galya wakes up to the flash of a falling comet, and discovers that her escape pod is floating in a graveyard of spaceships. Confused and scared, she and her brother set out to search the destroyed ships for signs of their father... or any life at all. This story is a retelling of Hansel and Gretel, set in outer space. It's part of the anthology Celestial.
A retelling of The Ugly Duckling, set on a far away planet in an unknown galaxy. While fighting a war with her people's biggest enemy, young Bode struggles to understand why she feels out of place in her community, and why she, unlike her comrades, was born without a tail. It's part of the anthology Through A Tangled Wood.
Tailless
Red and White are sisters trying to make it in the post-apocalyptic ruins of an ancient city. Surrounded by opposing factions, the sisters survive mainly by staying under the radar and raiding the storage warehouse of nightlings, the magical creatures that now rule the city and kill all the humans they can. When a mysterious dog appears at their doorstep, the sisters aworry they will be found out, but the dog proves to be surprisingly useful.
Buy this story as part of the Out of the Darkness anthology for $2.99.
Red and White
When sky fighters attack Etele's village, the villagers all flee to the nearest city. But when they arrive, they discover that the city is abandoned, save for a great white bear. This is a loose re-telling (hardly recognizable, honestly lol) of the fairy tale She-Bear. It's part of the anthology In The Shadow of Monsters.
SHE-BEAR
Jack works as a Digger on a recently colonized planet, and spends all of her days trying to fill a ravenous pit. She gets invited to attend a function at the Stalk, a space elevator that stretches from the surface of the planet all the way to space. Unfortunately, all of the Diggers that have visited the Stalk before Jack are dead. She chooses to go, and while there, learns an unfortunate truth about the Stalk that could endanger the lives of everyone. This short story is available as part of the Beamed Up! Anthology.
This story was rewritten and is now a part of the Rove City series.
The Stalk
This is an essay about an experience I had with my dad removing a colony of honey bees out of a house. It was published in Beekeeping: The First Three Years Magazine.
The Beekeeper's Daughter
This is an essay about my childhood gardens, published in the Yellow Arrow Publishing Winter 2020 Volume RESILIENCE.