The following stories were published in 2024 and are eligible for award nominations. For those of you voting for the Hugos, Nebulas, or other science fiction and fantasy awards, I would be honored if you considered them. If you are reading for awards, you are welcome to request a copy of anything that is not freely available online.
The hotel is made of a hundred thousand living bones. That is an estimate. The exact number fluctuates as new cartilage fuses together and old skeletons wear to dust.
“The Ossification of The Space Between Us”
Gamut Magazine Issue 2, February 2024
My mother hands me the last marigold in existence. She’s potted it into an old mug, one with a logo of an electro rock band I saw live on the east coast as a teenager, before my music tastes mellowed and before we drew borderlines like spider legs across the continent.
“We Make the World in Our Image”
Solarpunk Magazine Issue 17, September 2024