Stories

• Six Sides of a Fairy Tale (forthcoming)

  Lightspeed

• The Summar That Refused to End (forthcoming)

  khōréō

• (Non)deterministic Finite Automata (forthcoming)

  Fusion Fragment

• 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).

  • 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.