The Ones Left Behind - Grist Imagine 2200 Finalist Set in near-future Chinatown, restaurant-owner Grace tends to the family’s legacy and discovers a new beginning. (3750 words, SciFi/Solarpunk)
A Throne Fit for Two Kings- Luna Station Quarterly "Gather round, y’all, and grab your beers, and listen here about Sun Wukong the Monkey King." Journey to the wild, wild west as a young Chinese railroad worker encounters a legendary trickster deep in the Sierra mountains. (2850 words, Historical/Dark Fantasy)
The Exorcist's Guidebook - Gamut Magazine "You eat dinners, always under the mournful stares of the ghosts." For all my 90's baby, Bay Area immigrant kids. A story about hauntings and forging your own path. (4800 words, Horror/Dark Fantasy)
One Day the Cave Will Be Empty - Fantasy Magazine "A fisherman’s wife unexpectedly gives birth to a scaly, sharp-toothed daughter. Li Shing cannot bring herself to love her only child, but she and her husband raise her in secret. But secrets are always exposed, and the decision Li Sheng makes when Pearl is revealed is one not even she could have anticipated. There is a lot of depth here about societal expectations of motherhood and what happens when a mother doesn’t meet those expectations." -Alex Brown. (4800 words, Dark Fantasy)
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