Stories

• The Summer That Refused to End (forthcoming)

  khōréō

• (Non)deterministic Finite Automata (forthcoming)

  Fusion Fragment

• How to Come Back to Yourself

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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.

• 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.

• Mother's Mother's Daughter

  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.

  • Anthology available for purchase here.
  • Named one of NYPL's top horror books of 2025.
  • Hear from some contributors!
• 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).

  • Recipient of 2025 Brave New Weird Award (to be reprinted in Brave New Weird Vol. 4).
  • Recommended on the 2025 Nebula Suggested Reading List.
  • Recommended by Angela Liu here!
• Five Stages of Shedding a Skin

  Orion's Belt, July 2024

  The only reason anyone gets a new skin is to become someone else.

  The five stages of...grief?

  • Interviewed on Orion Belt's Patreon.
• 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.

  • Recommended in Strange Horizon's 2025 Hugo Awards Primer.
  • In Gautam Bhatia's newsletter!
  • Interviewed by UNC-Ch's Department of English and Comparative Literature.