Fiction

Artisanal Truffles, Humanly Foraged in Cascadia

A truffle hunter with a surgically modified nose has a chance encounter in the forest.

Winner: 2nd Prize, NEA Big Read Competition, hosted by Folio

The story appeared on Folio.

Sensation and Sensibility

Two androids—one lacking touch, the other lacking smell, and both lacking taste—have tea time at a café.

The story appeared in issue 200 of Clarkesworld.

The Carrion Droid, Zoe, and a Small Flame

An android who tends to groves of trees in an arbetery has a chance encounter with a woman who changes the droid’s understanding of the world.

The story appeared in issue 187 of Clarkesworld.

Cherry-Blossom Droid

An android wanders a post-climate-apocalypse world, trying to find a moment of reprieve from intrusive remembrances of an unforgivable act the droid committed when it served as a caretaker.

Nebula Suggested Reading (2021)

The story appeared in issue 1.3 of The Dread Machine.