Short Fiction

Amanita muscaria” (1,908 words)*
~Canthius Issue 10, September 2022

“The Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things” (4,499 words)
~PseudoPod Episode 807, April 2022*
~reprinted in The Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Vol. 1,
December 2023

“The Bread Boy” (5,846 words)
~Fictionable Winter 2023 Issue, February 2024
~reprint forthcoming in The Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science
Fiction: Vol. 3
(October 2025)

“Cire Perdue” (4,459 words)
~No Trouble at All, June 2023
~reprinted in Gamut Magazine Issue 4, April 2024

Corvus conjurax” (2,713 words)
~Prairie Fire Volume 42 No. I, April 2021*
~reprinted in Crow & Cross Keys, June 2022

“False Gills” (2,892 words)
~Uncharted Magazine, January 2022

“The Lady of the House on Legs” (3,998 words)
~Scissor Sisters, January 2024

“Rare Providers” (5,333 words)
~Fusion Fragment Issue 14, November 2022
~reprinted in PseudoPod Episode 907, February 2024

“Scintillae” (2,090 words)
~Dark Matter Magazine Issue 008, March 2022
~reprinted in Dark Matter Presents: Zero Dark Thirty (February 2023)

“Sister, Silkie, Siren, Shark” (3,677 words)
~Strange Horizons, November 2022

“Tattered Places” (2,499 words)
~NonBinary Review Issue #35, March 2024

“Two for Tea” (2,164 words)
~The New Quarterly Issue 166, April 2023

“What Is Owed and What Can Never Be” (6,105 words)
~Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #372, January 2023

“Work Orders” (3,929 words)
~Bicycles & Broomsticks (January 2023)*

Stories marked with an asterisk* were originally published and may in places still appear under the byline M. A. Blanchard.