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Short Stories
Apocalypse How? in Women in Horror Annual 2016. Double check those packages, people.
Momento Mori in Unlocking the Magic: A Fantasy Anthology. (CW: suicidal ideation). Find your people. Love them hard
It Happened One Cyborg Chicken Fight Night on CommuterLit. (CW: animal fighting, character death, alcohol consumption). Mistakes may give you the chance to make a break for freedom. Take those opportunities as they come.
Punching Muses in Three Time Travelers Walk Into… Sappho, Frida Kahlo, and Kusama Yayoi walk into a bar in Boston. Oscar Wilde is dead on the floor. Again.
Possession in My Say in the Matter, a charity anthology for The National Network of Abortion Funds (also available on Ezra’s Kofi as an e-book for $1 less than A*azon’s price). The Devil is faced with a young woman who decides to examine the fine print on her deal. (CW for Possession: religious trauma, termination. Other CWs are listed at the beginning of the book; please take them seriously).
Philosophy and Theology
Hate Expectations: Politics and Gender Roles in the Expanse and The Long, Dark Night of the Hate: The Metaphysical Fate of Detective Josephus Miller and his Headwear in The Expanse and Philosophy. Two essays in The Expanse entry into Blackwell’s Pop Culture and Philosophy series, the first of which addresses philosophy’s stance on a woman’s right to participate in politics and the latter the nature of the soul and its survival after the body’s demise.
The Care and Feeding of Your Co-Dependent Deities: The Cosmic Power Structure in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. The gods would have us believe we need them for survival but is the opposite actually true? Can the seemingly all-powerful denizens of the heavens and underworlds survive without the food of faith? Explore the evidence with me in my essay for Fortress Academic’s Neil Gaiman and Theology entry into their Religion, Theology, and Pop Culture series. Forthcoming.
Other Nonfiction
Bring the Beat: Music as Inspiration for Urban Fantasy in Fantasy Art and Studies Issue 10. Writers in general, and urban fantasy writers in particular, have very strong feelings about whether they listen to music while writing and which music they choose. Why? Science.