Short stories

• The Land of Milk and Honey (The Perfect Crime, 2022, reprinted in Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023, 2023)
• The Tiger Came to the Mountains (Trespass collection, 2022)
• A Shadow in Amber (Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices, 2021)
• Give Me Your Black Wings Oh Sister (New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, March 2019)
• Alicia Dreams the Sound of Footsteps in Her Wake (Room Magazine, March 2019, reprinted as audio story “The Sound of Footsteps” Tor Nightfire 2020)
• On the Lonely Shore (Uncanny Magazine, March 2019, audio by LeVar Burton Reads, September 2021)
• Sleep Walker (The Outcast Hours, February 2019)
• Jade, Blood (Nightmare, September 2017)
• Legacy of Salt (The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction, April 2016)
• Lacrimosa (Nightmare, November 2015)
• In the Details (A Mythos Grimmly, October 2015)
• Ahuizotl (Gods, Memes and Monsters, July 2015)
• Blood Alone Remains (Postscripts to Darkness, May 2015)
• sun moon stars rain (The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir, March 2015)
• Jackals (The Big Click, January 2015)
• El Culto de los Muertos (The Starry Wisdom Library, December 2014)
• The Yellow Door (Dangerous Games, December 2014)
• Sublime Artifacts (Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• To See Pedro Infante (Love & Other Poisons, September 2014. Reprinted in Clarkesworld, 2015)
• Kissing Frost (Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• Phrase Book (The Dark, May 2014)
• Man in Blue Overcoat (Handsome Devil: Tales of Sin and Seduction, February 2014, reprinted in Imaginarium 4, 2015. Reprinted in Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• Kaleidoscope (AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review, January 2014. Reprinted in Love & Other Poisons, 2014. Reprinted in Spanish in Teknochtitlán, 2016. Reprinted in Lightspeed, 2018. Reprinted in English and Spanish in Constellation/Constelación 2021)
• The Sea, Like Glass Unbroken (Whispers From The Abyss, October 2013. Reprinted in Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• River, Dreaming (Shimmer, October 2013. Reprinted in Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• Stories with Happy Endings (This Strange Way of Dying, September 2013)
• Snow (This Strange Way of Dying, September 2013. Reprinted at Postscripts to Darkness, 2015.)
• Cemetery Man (This Strange Way of Dying, September 2013. Reprinted at Apex, 2017.)
• Them Ships (We See a Different Frontier, September 2013, Audio recording at Escape Pod, 2015)
• The Gringo (Zombies: Shambling Through History, August 2013)
• Abandon All Flesh (Tales of Jack the Ripper, July 2013. Audio recording at Pseudopod, 2015. Reprinted in Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• Variations of Figures Upon the Wall (Where thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Poe, July 2013. Audio recording at Pseudopod, November 2014. Reprinted in Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• The Axolotl (The Lion and the Aardvark: Aesop’s Modern Fables, March 2013)
• Nahuales (audio adaptation at Toasted Cake, Bull Spec, February 2013. Reprinted in Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. Reprinted in This Strange Way of Dying)
• Iron Justice versus the Fiends of Evil (Masked Mosaic, February 2013)
• In the House of the Hummingbirds (Lovecraft eZine, November 2012, reprinted in New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird, 2015)
• Doppelgangers (Exile Quarterly, November 2012. Reprinted in This Strange Way of Dying)
• Live Sho (Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• Translucent Skin (Solstice Magazine, August 2012. Reprinted in Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• Collect Call (Expanded Horizons, March 2012. Reprinted in Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• The Performance (Journal of Unlikely Entomology, May 2012)
• Memory (Expanded Horizons, December 2011)
• The Gan Wait (AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review, November 2011)
• The English Cemetery (Coffinmouth, September 2011)
• A Puddle of Blood (EVOLVE Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead, August 2011. Reprinted in Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. Reprinted in Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• This Strange Way of Dying (GigaNotoSaurus, August 2011. Audio recording from Podcastle, November 2011. Reprinted in This Strange Way of Dying, 2013)
• A Handful of Earth (Expanded Horizons, July 2011. Reprinted in Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• Scales As Pale as Moonlight (Carter V. Cooper Anthology and the Canadian literary journal Exile Quarterly, May 2011. Reprinted in This Strange Way of Dying, 2013. Reprinted in Oprah Magazine, 2020.)
• Shade of the Ceibra Tree (Kaleidotrope, May 2011. Reprinted in This Strange Way of Dying, 2013)
• The Death Collector (AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review, February 2011. Reprinted in Mothership. Reprinted in This Strange Way of Dying, 2013)
• At the Edge (Space and Time, January 2011)
• Flash Frame (Cthulhurotica, December 2010. Reprinted in The Book of Cthulhu, September 2011. Audio adaptation at Tales to Terrify. Reprinted in This Strange Way of Dying, 2013)
• Driving with Aliens in Tijuana (Expanded Horizons, November 2010)
• Bloodlines (Fantasy Magazine, September 2010. Reprinted in Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful, March 2012. This Strange Way of Dying, 2013)
• Weekday (M-Brane SF, July 2010)
• Salt (Expanded Horizons, April 2010)
• The Harpy (Bards and Sages Quarterly, April 2010)
• Seeds (Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction, April 2010. Reprinted in Hub Magazine, April 2010)
• The Manticore (M-Brane SF, April 2010)
• Biting the Snake’s Tail (Futurismic, February 2010)
• Distant Deeps or Skies (Expanded Horizons, February 2010. Reprinted in Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• Bed of Scorpions (Tesseracts 13, September 2009. Audio recording from Pseudopod, May 2010. Reprinted in This Strange Way of Dying, 2013)
• B’alam (Reflection’s Edge, August 2009)
• Sinking Palaces (Expanded Horizons, August 2009)
• Jaguar Woman (Shimmer, March 2009. Audio recording from PodCastle, 2010. Reprinted in This Strange Way of Dying, 2013)
• Return (Aoife’s Kiss, December 2008)
• Of Fire and Time (Zahir, October 2008. Reprint in Time in a Bottle anthology, 2010.)
• Maquech (Futurismic, July 2008. Reprinted in the Apex Book of World SF. Vol II, 2012. Reprinted in This Strange Way of Dying, 2013)
• Candles for the Dead (Tales of Moreauvia, May 2008)
• Year of the Monkey (The Courier, April 2008) Click here to download a PDF copy.
• The River-Hag (Coyote Wild, March 2008. Reprinted in Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• The House That Ate Gothic (Hub, March 2008)
• The Moon is Shattered (Byzarium, February 2008)
• Shedding Her Own Skin (Fantasy Magazine, November 2007. Reprinted in Love & Other Poisons, September 2014)
• Water (Reflection’s Edge, August 2007)
• King of Sand and Stormy Seas (Shimmer, Fall 2006. Reprinted in Expanded Horizons June 2009)
• Mirror Life (Deep Magic, June 2006)