Suburban Witchcraft, Spring 2023
Thrilled to share that my short story “The Children of Stonemasons” appears in Issue Four of Suburban Witchcraft! This publication is particularly sentimental for me, since I’ve legitimately been working on this story since college. I wrote the first draft…
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Driskill Mountain: Highpoint 2, Electric Boogaloo
What is more timeless than the romance between a woman and her checklist? (Or a woman and her excel spreadsheet, depending on the era). The sparkle of electric chemistry on the moment of creation, the unbearable tension of those first…
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Byzantium
A centurion crosses the hill of his fathers, years swallowed down like wine. Hair falls loose and curling over his temples, stained, pitted, from campaign. On the knoll, over a wind-swept town, he stops. Watches smoke rise from the valley.…
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Summit at Guadalupe Peak
I’ve always wanted to be a travel writer. Before I was a poet, before I broke into the industry that is now my day job, when it still seemed possible to earn one’s living writing—I wanted to go places and…
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Chapter 2 – The Opposite of an Echo
Author’s note: This piece is part of a collaboration with Ludwig Reina! You can read the first installment over at his website, plus check out some cool art that goes along with this story. Kate resented the entire concept of…
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Teachings of the Prophet Mariah
Blade in the hand. “No” on the tongue. Silence. It’s not the vengeance—though that too is sweet, an overripe peach dribble down the chin— not catharsis violet and cream nor anything else Clytemnestra taught us eat hearts in the marketplace,…
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Bloodbathhate Magazine, September 2022
Pleased to be featured in the inaugural issue of bloodbathhate! “A love letter from Charybdis” (mine), appears about halfway down the page, so be sure to check out all the stellar work before and after. “The last supper at a…
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Black Moon Magazine, July 2022
Can’t stop, won’t stop. Latest work out is in Black Moon Magazine, a deep dark mag dedicated to the experimental and experiential. I can’t say it better than the editors, who write of their mission, “art should transcend the limitations…
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Shipwreck on the Aegean Sea
We ran aground while the watch stood, sailors sang cerulean dusk heavy, shore unseen. Mist ate up sand, sea wave-roar mute against plank, caulk painted gaze straining, sails empty as the night ahead. We met the rocks with a crack,…
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86 Logic, Issue 07
Aaaand we’re back, with a “a BAM and POW! that makes the pages turn at lightspeed”, according to the fine folks at 86 Logic. I’m super excited about this particular journal, and not just because, well, I got a thing…
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Abigail E. Sims 