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The Summer That Refused to End (forthcoming)
khōréō
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Ludonarrative Dissonance (forthcoming)
Lightspeed
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How to Come Back to Yourself
Reprinted in
PodCastle, October 2026
Originally published in The Tarot of Love, Flame Tree Press,
October 2026
Lilin has heard various ways of finding prophecies — reading bones,
divining at birth through the stars, physiognomy — but it all boils
down to the same thing: a prophecy is a way of giving something power.
It’s a kind of magic: when you speak something into existence, even if
it is only a suggestion, it solidifies a little. Grows tangible.
Becomes that much closer, to being a future, if someone puts enough
belief into it.
Several kinds of courtship, a prophet and a shapeshifter, and anxiety.
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The Tarot of Love is available
here!
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(Non)deterministic Finite Automata
Fusion Fragment, July 2026
The universe where Chen and Ranyi were born, research progressed
enough to identify convergence points, where the same threads aligned.
The game became: here are versions of the same situation. Here are the
choices you can make and all the new possibilities that spawn off from
each split, each divide. Find the one where you win.
Everyone should get to write a multiverse story! This one is mine
(also features state machines, soulmates, and space)
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Underneath the Underneath
Strange Horizons, April 2026
The thing is that Mina wouldn’t mind being a mother.
She thinks about it when she babysits. She imagines the swell of her
stomach, as tender and slight as the moon, and the motion inside of
her like the tides, rocking, of the baby. She imagines how simple
love could be, how intrinsic, how it might feel to hold someone the
way her mother held her. She could do it and it would be beautiful,
and if she had a son he could hunt the dragons and if she had a
daughter Mina could teach her how to tie knots.
But not minding and wanting are different things.
Reproductive freedom, womanhood, and dragons.
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Six Sides of a Fairy Tale
Lightspeed, February 2026
Sometimes, a prophecy was just another kind of story: If you told them
like they were the truth, that could be enough to believe in them.
A prophet, her princess, and six ways of telling it.
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Recommended by Maria Haskins in
Locus #783, reviewed as "a cleverly constructed fairytale retelling" that
muses on "the difference between telling the truth and telling a
good story."
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Reviewed by Sam Tomaino at
SFRevu
as "nicely done."
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Mother's Mother's Daughter
Available for free online in
Adventitious, August 2026
Originally published in
Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian
Diaspora, May 2025
All witches are their mother’s daughters, made of magic. And as all
magic is, it was a contract: my mother planted the flesh and bone,
hewn neatly at the ankle, in the garden. In return for her sacrifice,
I sprouted after a year.
Concretizing the sacrifices immigrant parents and eldest daughters
make with contracts, a garden, and some body horror. Also,
Shirley Jackson Award-nominated
for Short Fiction!
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Anthology available for purchase
here. Silk and Sinew has also been named one of NYPL's
top horror books of 2025, won the
Bram Stoker
and is nominated for the
British Fantasy Award
and the
Shirley Jackson Award
for best anthology.
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Selected for The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol 2,
available for preorder
here.
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Hear
from some contributors!
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I talk more about the inspiration behind the story
here.
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Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman in
SFF Reviews
as "weird and a little bit creepy, and sad and fierce, but
ultimately hopeful"
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Two's Company, Three Might Be a Sign of Demonic Posssession
PseudoPod, March 2025
You didn’t take the usual precautions when Lin died.
Mostly what it says on the tin (necromancy, demonic posession, etc
etc).
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Five Stages of Shedding a Skin
Reprinted in
Small Wonders, October 2026
Originally published in Orion's Belt, July 2024
The only reason anyone gets a new skin is to become someone else.
The five stages of...grief?
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Threshold
Strange Horizons, March 2024
When Granny came by Li’s workshop to deliver the news of Huyuan’s
death, the choice in front of Li was hardly a choice at all, and
even Granny knew it.
“Make sure you’re building a body and not a tomb,” Granny said.
My first sale! Ft. body-building of a literal nature, girls in love
(?), and the usual warnings about messing with death.