If you're voting for the Hugos, Nebulas, Ignytes, Locus, Stokers, World Fantasy or any other SFF award, you can find below my eligible work published in 2024.
Below each story, you will find some keywords that might pique your interest. Feel free to reach me out if you have any questions, want to talk about a story, or prefer to read any one of them in other file format.
Thank you for considering it!
"Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle" – Dark Matter Ink
Dark space opera; thriller; morally ambiguous protagonist; fight for survival.
This story is in the Nebula Suggested Reading List. Consider upvoting it there if you're a SFWA member and liked it! :-)
In 2144 AD, the generation ship Kap’s Needle left Earth to settle a new world. It all went wrong. Now, two years into a desperate return trip, the ship’s biospheres are collapsing and oxygen is nearly depleted. Life Support Manager Reva is now little more than a tax collector, deciding who gets to breathe. When Captain Horvat launches a corruption purge to cover his own failures, Reva knows she’s next. To protect her son, she must do the unthinkable: trust First Officer Torres, the woman who ruined her life, and help bring down the captain no matter how many innocent lives it costs.
"We Are Burnout" (2,800 words) – Phano Magazine #2
Cyberpunk; ultra fast-paced; overwork; fatigue; work culture.
This story is in the Nebula Suggested Reading List. Consider upvoting it there if you're a SFWA member and liked it! :-)
Angelica, in Rio, is coworked with Zhang Yong, in Beijing. Together, they aim to be hyperachievers, to give their maximum in the multiple, high-stake jobs they hold so they can pay their bills and fulfills their dreams. But what dreams? How much is too much when using the Spinal Hub to be coworked?
"Wish You Were Here" (4,000 words) – Of Shadows, Stars & Sabers - Stars & Sabers
Fantasy; queer romance; queer revenge; specters.
A lovers-to-enemies piece about a spectral couple who is able to travel through wishes by touching coins on wishing wells.
"The Doglady and the Rainstorm" (5,200 words) – Bright Green Futures
Solarpunk; trans protagonist; climate fiction; climate anxiety; caring for the vulnerable; dogs.
A storm is brooding, but Joseane needs to take one cute dog to her elderly owner. She has lost her grandpa to the water and isn’t happy at the prospect of having to navigate Rio de Janeiro’s waters during a rainstorm.
"The Crumbs of My Body" (3,800 words) – Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite - Stars & Sabers
Secondary world fantasy; body transformation; South American indigenous inspirations; community; hunger.
"Plucking Flowers from My Garden of Poison" (2,100 words) – Simultaneous Times, Ep. 88 [only in audio]
Eat-the-rich tale; post-apocalyptic; dystopia; obsession; obnoxious Earth.
In a wasted Earth, an obsession with a 300-year-old woman and the pods her civilization left behind leads a woman to find what the wealthy of 300 years before had planned to escape the end of the world.