Short fiction
“White Crane and Red Fox” (3300 words)
Heartlines Spec (March 2025)
A descendant of the White Crane and Red Fox clans struggles with a sense of belonging. (Fantasy)
“The first woman of the Qingyan Sect” (3900 words)
All Worlds Wayfarer: Into the Dark anthology (forthcoming Q3/Q4 2025)
(Wuxia dark fantasy)
“Event Horizon” (3900 words)
Apocalypse Confidential, October 2024
A doctor specializing in last image corneal implants struggles with his work on eternal consciousness and the loss of love. (Sci-fi/speculative)
“The Mid-Autumn Festival” (3800 words)
Luna Station Quarterly, September 2024
A recalcitrant sun goddess descends to the mortal realm to experience the Mid-Autumn Festival, and finds more than she expected. (Fantasy/xianxia)
Review: SFF Reviews Oct 2024
“Fancy a Chinese?” (1500 words)
DarkWinter Lit Magazine, May 2024
Shortlisted for 2nd Anniversary Fiction Contest
A young woman struggles with her mixed race identity in a world that has homogenized food and is slowly erasing ethnic food culture. (Speculative)
Art by Hisurii
A FATE WOVEN
IN STARLIGHT
Romantic Fantasy
Selected for the 2024 SmoochPit Mentorship Program
In a feminist reimagining of a Chinese folktale, rebellious Shizhi runs away with the farmer she’s forbidden to marry, but when a jealous Celestial Empress forces her to relive a past life that spans three realms, Shizhi must confront madness, tragedy, and hell itself to reclaim her freedom and save the man she loves.
Feminist reimagining of the Chinese folktale, “The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl”
Forbidden love
Celestial immortals/three realms
Controlling parents and the quest for female agency
Bleeding for love
Travel to Diyu (the underworld)
Art by Hisurii
BLOOMS IN POISON
Romantic Fantasy
Demon queen Zhao Yao vows revenge against her mother's killer, rival queen Gui Jing, but when the heavenly realm razes Zhao Yao's kingdom to the ground, she’s forced to seek refuge with the woman she hates most—and finds herself torn between vengeance, desire, and the looming threat of those who want to destroy the demon race.
Chinese myth and folklore
Enemies-to-lovers
Falling in love over food
Ice vs. fire
Cdrama/xianxia vibes
Blood poison magic
Forced proximity