Short Stories

New Things, Unnatural Order, CSFG, December 2020.

Hideous Armature, Midnight Echo 15, AHWA, November 2020.

Human ErrorDimension6, October 2020.

Ten Thousand GatesAggregate, February 2020.

Loose Stones, Infinite Threads, the 2019 UTS Writers Anthology, 2019. Aurealis Award finalist for Best Horror Short Story AND Best Fantasy Short Story!

Wreck Diving, Aurealis #123, 2019. WINNER of the 2019 Aurealis Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Short Story!

Palm Reading, One Dollar, [Untitled] 2019.

I Almost Went to the Library Last NightAurum: A Golden Anthology of Original Australian Fantasy. Ticonderoga Publications, October 2018. Aurealis Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novella.

The Art of Broken ThingsMother of Invention, Twelfth Planet Press, September 2018.

Traces, Aurealis issue #107 February 2018.

Street Furniture, At the Edge by Paper Road Press, 2016.

A Pain that Must be Suffered, In Your Face from Fablecroft, 2016.

Unnamed Children, Bloodlines from Ticonderoga Publications in 2015.

Bullets, the AHWA anthology, Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep in 2015. Winner Aurealis Award for best Horror Short Story. Reprinted and recorded over at Podcastle.

2B, Insert Title Here from Fablecroft in 2015. Reprinted in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2015, Ticonderoga Publications.

Simulation Theory, COSMOS Magazine Feb/March 2014.

The Last Tiger, online now at Daily SF.

Mah Song, an original story from The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories. Shortlisted for the Aurealis and Ditmar awards. Reprinted in Focus 2013 by Fablecroft Publishing. Reprinted in the Years Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013 from Twelfth Planet Press.

Fence Lines, an Original story in The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories. Shortlisted for an Australian Shadows Award.

Sand and Seawater (co-written with Rabia Gale) One Small Step from Fablecroft Publishing.

Always a Price: Winner of the AHWA Short story award 2012. Published in Midnight Echo 8 November 2012. Reprinted in Award Winning Australian Writing 2013.

Sanaa’s Army, Bloodstones October 2012. Reprinted in Focus 2012: Highlights of Australian Short Fiction from FableCroft Publishing. Shortlisted for the Aurealis and Ditmar awards.

Luminaire, From Stage Door Shadows in September 2012.

The Bone Chime Song, Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear from Peggy Bright Books, June 2012. Translated and reprinted in Science Fiction World (China).

A Memory Trapped in Light, astory set in the Debris universe, published in Epilogue from Fablecroft Press, June 2012.

Tied to the Waste, Tales of the Talisman, March 2012. Reprinted in The Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2012.

High Density, ASIM, February 2012.

Out Hunting For Teeth, Midnight Echo 6, November 2011. Received an honourable mention in the 2011 Australian Shadows Award for best short story.

Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden, Hope Anthology from Kayelle Press, October 2011. Finalist for the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story. Shortlisted for the WSFA Small Press award.

From the Dry Heart to the Sea, After the Rain by FableCroft Publishing, April 2011.

The Sea at Night, Dead Red Heart by Ticonderoga Publications, April 2011. Received an honourable mention in the 2011 Australian Shadows Award for best short story.

Breathtaker, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue #44 in August 2010.

Graffiti, Worlds Next Door, FableCroft Publishing in August 2010.

Little Ghost Boy, Midnight Echo 3 in November 2009.

Albatross Ghosts, Kaleidotrope #7, October 2009.

Shadow of Drought, Midnight Echo Issue 2 in June 2009. This story was recommended for a 2009 Stoker award.

Dragon Bones, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #39, June 2009. Shortlisted for a 2009 Aurealis Award for ‘Best Young Adult Short Story’.

Death Masque, CSFG anthology, Masques, in March 2009.

Cold Beneath the Bougainvillea, 2008 Black Box.

Wordwitch, July 2008 issue feature story at A Fly in Amber.

Dogs, winner of the Conjure short story competition in 2006, published in Aurealis in 2007.

Demons and Gin, Published in 2007 in Niteblade.

Trail of Dead, 2007 in ‘Zombies‘ by Altair Australia. Reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror Vol 3 By Brimstone Press in 2009, and Zombies: More Recent Dead by Prime Books in 2014.

When the Mountain Weeps, 2007 in ‘Touched by Wonder’ by Meadowhawk Press.

Whale Fall, 2007 at Daikaijuzine.

Flightless, 2007 at Arcane Twilight.

Thread Embrace, 2007 at The Harrow.

Mirror Dirt, 2007 in Flashspec Volume Two.

Darkened, 2007 in the very first Staffs & Starships Magazine.

Threefold, 2007 at Bewildering Stories.

Swinging the World, winner Flash Me Magazine’s October 2006 ‘Lightning Flash Fiction’ competition.

Bond, 2006 in Deep Magic.

The Feast, placed 3rd in the Australian Horror Writers Association flash fiction competition in 2005 and was published in Shadowed Realms. Reprinted in Book of Shadows Volume One.