Artisanal Truffles, Humanly Foraged in Cascadia
A truffle hunter with a surgically modified nose has a chance encounter in the forest. 2nd-prize winner, NEA Big Read Competition.
Sensation and Sensibility
Two androids—one lacking touch, the other lacking smell, and both lacking taste—have tea time at a café.
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.
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.