Here is the listing of things you have to pay to read. Life is cruel.

(Due to the ephemeral nature of publishing, sometimes things go out of print or just stop being sold. I try to link to the original publisher’s buy pages.)

Puppet Princess (Allegory, vol. 17/44, winter 2012)! An original fairy tale, with princesses and monsters and bravery and belonging and not at all something to read as a bedtime story, oh my goodness no. In Volume 17/44. horror

Ain’t Human (Allegory, vol. 24/51, spring 2014)! Cowboys and mermaids. Let me say that again: cowboys and mermaids weird Western/horror

Long Hot Wait (Andromeda Spaceways, issue 59)! Cowboys and zombies. Oh I’m sorry do you need more enticement? Cowboys and zombies and a talking snake. weird Western

(true) (Andromeda Spaceways, issue 80)! A witch gets jealous of a rival witch’s success and seeks to destroy the. Problem is, the rival witch is a robot. How do you curse a machine? (spoilers the robot witch is the hero not the human witch.) science fiction

Kaupoai and the Gilhag (Redwing, Grace&Victory)! Did you get excited about the other cowboy stories? How about an alt!hist Wild West where our hero is Maori and journeys to dreaded Europe to seek fame and fortune and instead finds mermaids and fairies? weird Western

Becoming Beast (Grace&Victory)! A genderbent retelling of Beauty and the Beast, except the godmothers are dead and true love will not save you. fantasy

Taking (The Quilliad, issue 8, autumn 2016)! How do you tell your child they have to die, after they’ve already cheated death? horror

Of, and With (The Quilliad, issue 11, autumn 2019)! A Victorian tale in the grand tradition of ghost stories at Christmas, complete with congenial drunkenness and insufferability. ghost story

So Sharp, So Sharp (The Quilliad, issue 11, autumn 2019)! A retelling of the fairy tale Allerleirauh, or Thousandfurs, except our princess is not willing to run away from her problems. fairy tale/horror

Wherefore Wolf? (Bards and Sages Quarterly, Vol. XI iss. I, January 2019)! A mismatched warrior and mage pair are on their way to the capital to start their new jobs, but OH SHIT IT’S WEREWOLF TIME! fantasy

Open Up and Let Me In (Unburied: A Collection of Queer Dark Fiction, Rowland Books)! Remember all those times when you’ve read a ghost story and you’re like, “This person just needs to go to therapy because the ghost is obviously just a metaphor for their guilt”? Sometimes there are literal ghosts okay. horror