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.

1. “Someone to Feed You”

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

Read the story here.

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

Read the story here.

illustration by Jacey

3. “The Darkness Inside Her”

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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4. “Still Waters”

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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Cover image coming soon!

5. “The Beast of Boma Road”

Published in: Fraidy Cat Quarterly #7: Rage (to be published in 2025)

Word Count: about words

Genre: horror

- 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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