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2016-2017
When a rogue planet enters the Solar System, a group of scientists must uncover its secrets.
InterGalactic Medicine Show, #52,
September, 2016
2018
Multiple generations of two families intertwine as they deal with the legal and emotional issues of consciousness upload, with some digital members moving away from Earth to found colonies on other worlds, only to be reunited with family members hundreds of years later.
Silver Blade #38, Spring 2018.
(Now hosted at InkFoundry!)
2019
A nameless narrator explores time via a mysterious train system; they sometimes find that certain "stops" vanish, and the other people they see in the system leave them notes. There are factions among the time-dwellers, it seems--but much of what they think they know, may be false. . . .
Overcast #97, January 16, 2019
Reprinted at:
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Podcastle #778, March 14, 2023. (audio and text)
2020
Night of a Thousand Eyes
Arthur Polaris uploaded his consciousness to an android body decades ago, and is currently an investigator for the Terran Alliance. At issue? A number of indentured workers on Vanth V aren't leaving the planet after their terms of service are up--and as he investigates, he begins to see a worrisome pattern among those workers on the night-side of this tidally-locked planet. . .
StoryHack Action & Adventure #5, January 12, 2020
2021
A Shot in the Dark
Dominic Vadas hadn’t set out to break records. Hadn’t intended to become the furthest outpost of humanity in existence, or famous in any way. He’d simply wanted to slip away from the rest of humanity unnoticed. As a hermit on a moon of Uranus, he is, however, the closest human to the first extrasolar spacecraft to tumble into the Solar System in human history--and there are more surprises ahead of him that just that.
Analog, January/February 2021.
Winner, 2021 Analytical Laboratory Award.
Related stories:
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"A Long Journey into Light," Analog, March/April 2"
2022
A group of gargoyles and grotesques atop an ancient cathedral raises an orphaned infant on their own, until humans steal her away from them. These 'monsters' will stop at nothing to get their daughter back!
NewMyths #58, March 2022
2023
This story is organized as a glossary of terms from various human and alien languages.
Lightspeed, January 12, 2023
Related stories:
""The Graveyard of Ships," "Malum in Se," "Red Ochre, Ivory Bone."
2024
The Icy Wasteland at Her Feet
Tora Janson is the last survivor of an expedition to Enceladus, in Saturn's orbit. Routine keeps her alive. The other members of her team, for a variety of heart-breakingly human reasons, didn't make it. This is the story of how she learns not just to exist, but transcend.
The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy,
Winter 2024
2025
A family on a generation ship keeps a recipe for lebkuchen alive, though the ingredients change as necessity dictates--and their ingenuity ensures their survival despite crop failures and other travails.
The Daily Tomorrow, February 2, 2025
2026
Brother Thomas wanted to leave the life of a warrior behind. But his welcome at the monastery that's offered him sanctuary feels tenuous at best. When the monastery is attacked, Thomas must choose between past and future. . .
Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #67, January 2026.