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“Creative, but not in a good way” – my wife
Hi! I write short stories. Here’s my stuff.
If you want to get in touch, DM me on bsky I guess?
June News: Citizens! is now free to read at Flash Fiction Online. It’s a musical. I wrote a musical.
Looking for a good place to start? Check out Trevor is Hungry in Small Wonders or I Demand Knives in Interstellar Flight Magazine (genre fic). They’re both super short!
Published Work
2026
Trevor Is Hungry – Small Wonders, May 2026 (lit fic but also kaiju boyfriend; 1000 words)
“We have to break up, obviously, you ate my house.”
– highlighted in NM Whitley’s Short Story Rex
Citizens! – Flash Fiction Online, May 2026 (lit fic; a musical; 1000 words)
“Why would you yell stuff if you don’t know how it goes?”
I Don’t Need Your Whole Life Story (click to buy) – Passages North, April (lit fic; death after death; 4500 words)
“All of it’s real, man. It’s real every time.”
Pee Seat – Rat Bag, April 1 (title is literal; 200 words)
– “I think about it every time I see a wet spot on a bus” – Cormack Baldwin, EIC, Archive of the Odd
“All the trappings of happiness are still with us.”
– Listen at Cosmic Goblins (Spotify / Apple), including an interview with yours truly!
We All Thundered (click to buy) – Stanchion, February (lit fic; hardcore betrayal; 2800 words)
“You ever feel like you’re being asked to choose from the kids’ menu?”
“Epic, Tragic Dipshits”– an interview by the great Ivy Grimes, January
2025
Narc Rules – HAD, November (prose poetry or something? 280 words)
“Impossible. Comic book stuff. No way.”
– cowritten with my 9-year-old kid, Nathan – his first publication, and it’s the cover story!
Torches & Pitchforks – Night Shades, May (torches; pitchforks; 300 words)
Hijinks Ensue – Barrelhouse, May (lit fic; adult situations; 1600 words)
“She’ll probably still let you eat her ass, but it’ll feel like a goodbye.”
Dungeon or Tower –Wigleaf, April (lit fic; 1000 words)
“It’s only bad because you have to stay here forever.”
– wigleaf lets you write them a postcard and here’s mine
Isn’t This Wild (click to buy) – Stanchion, April (lit fic; peeing in the pool; 2200 words)
“I feel like you don’t know what trouble is.”
My Stalagmite * – Twin Pies, March (butt plugs and body horror, 1000 words)
“Anything’s a butt plug if it’s up your butt.”
“Why do you have that much boiling oil?”
– Just One Thing (interview)
– Nominated for Best Small Fictions
– Íde Hennessy’s 2025 Recommended Short Stories
2024
This party fuckin sucks – Sans Press, Halloween (weird horror; my second story with “fuck” in the title; 1000 words)
“I’m not wearing a mask! That’s just my face!’
– Nominated for Best Small Fictions
Raw Life * –Fraidy Cat Quarterly, October (horror; bugs; icky; 3200 words)
“Raw dogging it with life itself, bare-ass naked and feeding on you.”
“Maddy always volunteered to be the first to die.”
– Wilder Experiments (interview)
– Nominated for Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net
To The Wolves * – Weird Horror, September (retirement home horror; 3600 words)
“But your value doesn’t have to dwindle as you age. Why shouldn’t you be worth more, after all this time?”
– Nominated for a Stoker Award
– Honorable Mention in Best Horror of the Year
– Coming soon to Pseudopod
Prometheus Live – Strange Locations, a special limited Kickstarter anthology for Apex, August (Tripadvisor review; 250 words, no longer available)
Whatever the Gig Is, I Want It – StoryBottle, July (lit fic; pretend pooping; 1200 words)
Meat Only Double Meat –JMWW, June (lit fic? how to get a free severed human hand from the Leominster Pizza Hut; 1750 words)
“If it’s served by a restaurant it’s legally food.”
Your Best Self, Forever (buy physical / digital) – Xanax Hamster, June (dystopia; misunderstanding volcanoes; 1000 words)
“What will be the best and last day of your life?”
Ouch * (click to buy) – Horror Over the Handlebars anthology, June (horror; ET but mean; 1000 words)
Braces * (click to buy) – Welcome To Your Body anthology, May (health insurance horror; teeth; 3600 words)
“I imagined my teeth dwindling until I was pink and smooth as a baby, all the way across.”
Third Date Is When You Tell ‘Em * – Maudlin House, April (ew; 150 words)
“Like biologically speaking, I’m too happy. I take pills for it.”
– Íde Hennessy’s Best of 2024
Fuck Me In A Whale – Masters Review: New Voices, February (surreal lit fic; title is literal; 1200 words)
– Tyler Dempsey’s Best of the Best ’24
– Masters Review let me write an essay for their Writers On Not Writing series
2023
“Such is the way of progress: one must tie or be tied.”
– cover story for the Weird West issue of Drabblecast’s Tentaculum magazine!
If everyone just starts eating we can probably eat the whole earth in a week. –Maudlin House, December (lit fic; the guy you wish you hadn’t sat next to at the bar; 350 words)
“Don’t threaten me with lava. I’ll call your bluff.”
– Wigleaf Top 50 longlist
I’m Gonna Show You Something Awful * (listen on Spotify / Apple) – Tales to Terrify, December – narrated by Jesse Holt (podcast; horror; family values; 12 minutes long)The Last Stand of the Tooth Fairies – Cossmass Infinities, November (fantasy; swearing at children; 4846 words)
“The problem with a baby is you can only fire it out of a cannon once.”
“Xanadu” Cocktail with Artisanal Ice– Deathcap & Hemlock, November (it’s a recipe! 450 words – pub is sadly defunct)
Promise Me You Won’t Leave a Drop * – HAD, October (fairy tales; uh oh more cannibalism; 200 words)
One Thousand Islands – failbetter, August (lit fic; salad dressing; 1000 words)
– Wigleaf Top 50 longlist
Super Black – X-R-A-Y, July (lit fic; weird horror; toxic masculinity; 2650 words)
“There was the trypophobic dildo wall.”
– Tyler Dempsey’s Best of the Best ’23
Disaster Mode (click to order) – Dragon Gems, summer (scifi/fantasy; honestly pretty conventional; 5850 words)
“Doesn’t this all feel like a joke, sometimes?”
Don’t Make It Weird – Pithead Chapel, July (all my weirdest horror is in lit mags; couple swapping; 3200 words)
“Oh wow…you guys really had a lot of scotch tape.”
“Magic doesn’t win a fight. Pain wins a fight.”
Withdrawal Letter – Splonk, April (this is just a sweet little piece; 100 words)
– nominated for Best Microfictions ’23
Down Here, Where I Can Keep You Safe (listen on Spotify / Apple) * – Creepy Podcast, March – narrated by Alicia Atkins (Gothic horror; 6000 words / 40 mins; my shit starts around 19:00)
“The bones listened to you. They let you go.”
Stay Down (click to order) – Illustrated Worlds, Spring (fantasy; sea monkeys; 4350 words)
“What hushed and vicious argument had transpired, on whether to greet me with grace or violence?”
– reprinted in The Pelagic Zone: Uncharted Waters, November ’24
Bucket List – Final Girl at the Daily Drunk, March (it’s an actual bucket list; 160 words)
Garbage Out * –bodyfluids, Jan (body horror; 420 words)
The Worst Room In Your House – Prime Number, Jan ’23 (lit fic; reality TV; 3200 words)
“You should put a trap at the bottom of the stairs. Like a pit full of spikes.”
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Scented Trash Bags –Scribes Micro Fiction, Dec ’22 (100 words)
A Simple Procedure * – promo zine for the “Dark Side of Purity” anthology (1250 words – no longer available)
“You have the look of an onanist. Pale and sickly.”
The Big Chill Except With the Ducklings From Make Way For Ducklings, Now All Grown Up – McSweeney’s, 2019
Upcoming
Turn Away From This Depraved World * – coming from Fraidy Cat, summer ’26 (horror; violence; milk crates; 2500 words)
“There is the labyrinth. At the end is the world. Run.”
Emperor Jeff – coming in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, probably sometime before the heat death of the universe (scifi / fantasy; a mullet; 1500 words)
“Who’s the emperor here and who’s the used timeline salesman, Kevin.”
* My mother has asked me to indicate which stories she should not read and/or share with her Quaker meeting. Here you go, mom! Love you!
Sasha Brown is a Boston writer whose surreal stories have been called “Creative! But in a bad way.” He’s in lit mags like Passages North and Split Lip, and in genre pubs like Bourbon Penn and Pseudopod. He knows three cool facts about frogs.
Sasha Brown