Coming soon
And the Daisies Were to Blame
Kaleidotrope
A love story told on a train going to the seaside.
Published
A Cosmonaut’s Guide to Talking to Your Parents
Escape Pod
If you wanna start a podcast helpline to evade your problems, being in space helps.
Hallowed Halls
The Martian Magazine
A 100-word drabble about hauntings on alien planets.
It Passed by Morning
UNTHINKABLE: A Queer Gothic Anthology (2022)
Half haunted house story, half snowed-in romance, two suspicious strangers share an abandoned cabin during an eerily long snow storm.
Seams of Iron
The Future Fire (reprint)
Common Bonds: An Aromantic Speculative Anthology
A reimagining of H. C. Andersen’s The Wild Swans, delving into strange knitting practices, life under mildly inconvenient curses, and people finding their home in each other.
- Review by Marissa Lingen
Easy Garden Flowers Broth
Deathcap and Hemlock
A bittersweet broth made with the flowers blooming outside. Careful not to stare into it too long!
Originally published in Romanian in Galaxia 42.
String Potpourri
Fusion Fragment #11, May 2022
A boy, a violin, a melody, a life. A meandering, slipstream story partly inspired by The Twa Sisters (Child Ballad 10).
Originally published in Romanian in Helion SF.
- Review by Charles Payseur in Locus
Tea Parties around Nebula-55
Clarkesworld #188
A little story about food and comfort, cooking on abandoned spaceships, and making the best out of a doomed situation.
- Review in SFRevu
- Review in Tangent
- Review by Karen Burnham in Locus
Done in the Mire
F&SF Mar/Apr 2022
Two miserable old women hating each other’s guts while trying to escape a haunted bog.
- Review in SFRevu
- Review by Charles Payseur in Locus
- Review in SFcrowsnest
Worth the Whistling
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #331
A story about bone carving, pious bigotry, dead forests, and the fear that comes with seeking something better.
- Review in Quick Sip Reviews
- Review by Maria Haskins
- Review by Karen Burnham in Locus
Of Buckwheat and Garlic Braids
A Quiet Afternoon Anthology
A low-stakes story about a man leaving home only to end up solving a village mystery alongside some random kids. Romanian folklore, garlic dishes, grumpy old ladies, and a smidge of humour.
- Review in SFF Reviews
Adriana C. Grigore 