Publications
Forthcoming
When He, Dreaming, Wakes Dark Matter Magazine
All That Perfect Blue Aurealis
In the Stillness of Our Mooring Selene Quarterly Magazine
After the Bomb: Week Two and Starving NonBinary Review
Convergence Zodiac Tales
Short Fiction
Brood Five Vastarien (December, 2020)
Every seventeen years, the magicicada septendecim emerge...
Purchase the issue here.
Goodbye, Julia Distant Shore Publishing (December, 2020)
There she is, Julia, black and white and two dimensional, standing beside me...
Read the full story here.
Awakening If There's Anyone Left (November 2020)
We feel the stirring now, as She once promised us...
Purchase the anthology here.
Five Candles Black Library (October 2020)
In Havisa’s dream, her fire was not fading...
Purchase the story here.
The Tender, Searing Wind Dream of Shadows (August 2020)
It’s an honor, they say. As if death is somehow a compliment...
Read the full story here.
Matches, Tower, Sister, Stone Flash Fiction Online (June 2020)
The summer my sister Mindi turned thirteen and the Leukemia began chewing her bones to lace, she built a city of ghosts...
Read the full story here.
These Hands, These Wings Anathemas (March 2020)
Follow the path. Find the old post. Chase the crows away...
Buy the anthology here.
Polaroid, 1979 PseudoPod (October 2019)
Their skins never look as beautiful on her as they do on their original bones...
Read/listen to the full story here.
Our Roots Devour Apparition Literary Magazine (July 2019)
*nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Momma always told us the Tree ain’t got a taste for our family’s blood...
Read the full story here.
He Feasts Forever Black Library (May 2019)
*reprinted in Invocations (December 2019)
In the king's kitchens, the hearth fires roared...
Purchase the story here.
Crimson Snow Maledictions (April 2019)
The battle began with snow, heavy and rushing from a late winter sky...
Purchase the anthology here.
The Wallflowers Gorgon: Stories of Emergence (February 2019)
When you open your eyes, the daisies are watching you...
Purchase the anthology here.
The Imitation Sea Shimmer (April 2018)
You find the dead Angel at five a.m. in the slurry of broken bottles and rotting fish on the Lake Erie shore...
Read the full story here.
Necessary Threads Fell Beasts and Fair (March 2018)
The straw man is crumpled on the bank. He wears human clothes, plaid, denim, bright orange cotton...
Purchase the anthology here.
These Bones Aside The Dark (September 2017)
The entire village ushers Bina to The Thousand Skin Tent...
Read the full story here.
Water like Air Flash Fiction Online (June, 2017)
Her sister, Thalia, would have laughed if she saw her then, alone and draped in mud...
Read the full story here.
Flight Norwescon 40: Over the Hills and Far Away (April, 2017)
In her head, she is flying...
Norwescon program guide exclusive.
Seven Swans a-Swimming: A Phoenix and the Moon Twelve Days (November, 2016)
They'll come. Moths to a flame. They'll want to watch me rise...
Purchase the anthology here.
Shadow Boy Shimmer (September 2016)
*reprinted in Podcastle (January 2019)
I am sixteen and sitting on the edge of an empty subway platform when Peter, forever small, reappears...
Read the full story here.
Nuclear Daughter Flash Fiction Online (July 2016)
*reissued at audible.com (January 2017)
I remember the static voices: “Bomb. Bomb. Bomb.” The great, distant flash...
Read the full story here.
Poetry
After a Year of Solitude Asimov's Science Fiction (November 2020)
Purchase the issue here.
Listen to it on Asimov's National Poetry month podcast here.
As if My Flesh was Summer Soil Uncanny Magazine (October 2020)
Read the full poem here.
Listen to it on Uncanny's podcast here.
Moonrise Kaleidotrope (October 2020)
Read the full poem here.
The Huntsman Liminal Stories (October 2017)
*nominated for the Rhysling Award
Read the full poem here.
Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments Strange Horizons, (August 2017)
Read the full poem here.
Jupiter of Jupiter Strange Horizons (June 2016)
*Reprinted in Arsenika (December 2016)
Read the full poem here.
Reichelt Latchkey Tales: Wings of Air (December 2014)
Purchase the issue here.
When He, Dreaming, Wakes Dark Matter Magazine
All That Perfect Blue Aurealis
In the Stillness of Our Mooring Selene Quarterly Magazine
After the Bomb: Week Two and Starving NonBinary Review
Convergence Zodiac Tales
Short Fiction
Brood Five Vastarien (December, 2020)
Every seventeen years, the magicicada septendecim emerge...
Purchase the issue here.
Goodbye, Julia Distant Shore Publishing (December, 2020)
There she is, Julia, black and white and two dimensional, standing beside me...
Read the full story here.
Awakening If There's Anyone Left (November 2020)
We feel the stirring now, as She once promised us...
Purchase the anthology here.
Five Candles Black Library (October 2020)
In Havisa’s dream, her fire was not fading...
Purchase the story here.
The Tender, Searing Wind Dream of Shadows (August 2020)
It’s an honor, they say. As if death is somehow a compliment...
Read the full story here.
Matches, Tower, Sister, Stone Flash Fiction Online (June 2020)
The summer my sister Mindi turned thirteen and the Leukemia began chewing her bones to lace, she built a city of ghosts...
Read the full story here.
These Hands, These Wings Anathemas (March 2020)
Follow the path. Find the old post. Chase the crows away...
Buy the anthology here.
Polaroid, 1979 PseudoPod (October 2019)
Their skins never look as beautiful on her as they do on their original bones...
Read/listen to the full story here.
Our Roots Devour Apparition Literary Magazine (July 2019)
*nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Momma always told us the Tree ain’t got a taste for our family’s blood...
Read the full story here.
He Feasts Forever Black Library (May 2019)
*reprinted in Invocations (December 2019)
In the king's kitchens, the hearth fires roared...
Purchase the story here.
Crimson Snow Maledictions (April 2019)
The battle began with snow, heavy and rushing from a late winter sky...
Purchase the anthology here.
The Wallflowers Gorgon: Stories of Emergence (February 2019)
When you open your eyes, the daisies are watching you...
Purchase the anthology here.
The Imitation Sea Shimmer (April 2018)
You find the dead Angel at five a.m. in the slurry of broken bottles and rotting fish on the Lake Erie shore...
Read the full story here.
Necessary Threads Fell Beasts and Fair (March 2018)
The straw man is crumpled on the bank. He wears human clothes, plaid, denim, bright orange cotton...
Purchase the anthology here.
These Bones Aside The Dark (September 2017)
The entire village ushers Bina to The Thousand Skin Tent...
Read the full story here.
Water like Air Flash Fiction Online (June, 2017)
Her sister, Thalia, would have laughed if she saw her then, alone and draped in mud...
Read the full story here.
Flight Norwescon 40: Over the Hills and Far Away (April, 2017)
In her head, she is flying...
Norwescon program guide exclusive.
Seven Swans a-Swimming: A Phoenix and the Moon Twelve Days (November, 2016)
They'll come. Moths to a flame. They'll want to watch me rise...
Purchase the anthology here.
Shadow Boy Shimmer (September 2016)
*reprinted in Podcastle (January 2019)
I am sixteen and sitting on the edge of an empty subway platform when Peter, forever small, reappears...
Read the full story here.
Nuclear Daughter Flash Fiction Online (July 2016)
*reissued at audible.com (January 2017)
I remember the static voices: “Bomb. Bomb. Bomb.” The great, distant flash...
Read the full story here.
Poetry
After a Year of Solitude Asimov's Science Fiction (November 2020)
Purchase the issue here.
Listen to it on Asimov's National Poetry month podcast here.
As if My Flesh was Summer Soil Uncanny Magazine (October 2020)
Read the full poem here.
Listen to it on Uncanny's podcast here.
Moonrise Kaleidotrope (October 2020)
Read the full poem here.
The Huntsman Liminal Stories (October 2017)
*nominated for the Rhysling Award
Read the full poem here.
Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments Strange Horizons, (August 2017)
Read the full poem here.
Jupiter of Jupiter Strange Horizons (June 2016)
*Reprinted in Arsenika (December 2016)
Read the full poem here.
Reichelt Latchkey Tales: Wings of Air (December 2014)
Purchase the issue here.
©2020 Lora Gray
