“The nymph Daphne turns, falling to a tree. / Expect it. This is how her story begins / and ends, each aching limb stuck aloft, / each woody joint fastened to colorless sky.”
– from The Women of Myth, originally published in Dreams & Nightmares
The Women of Myth, Island of Wak-Wak, 2025
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Table of Contents & Acknowledgments
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The Women of Myth
- The Witch’s Daughter (Mythic Delirium, HM 2007 YBFH)
- Temple, or Psyche (Aoife’s Kiss)
- The Women of Myth (Dreams & Nightmares)
- Ariadne’s Thread (Dreams & Nightmares)
- Tooth (James Gunn’s Ad Astra)
- Goat (Star*Line)
- Raising a god (Abyss & Apex)
- Guinevere (Paradox)
Pilgrimage
- Climbing Olympus Mons (World of Myth)
- Asking Questions of the Stars (Illumen)
- Interstellar Spaces (Abyss & Apex)
- Watching the Leonids
- Afternoon (Vega)
- We Real Hot.
- frozen moon | smoke rises
- Starfish (Until the Stars Go Out)
- A Lasso Around It (Star*Line, SFPA Valentine’s Day Reading 2026)
- Lovers on the moon (Until the Stars Go Out)
- Counterfactual Fantasy (The Stew)
- Papilloma (Scifaikuest)
- Pathology Report (Star*Line)
- Pilgrimage (Wicked Alice)
Medusa
- Winter (Healing Muse)
- The apple I bought you (Between Kisses)
- Bodice
- wax maidens
- Medusa I (FUHU)
- Medusa II
- Salamander (Goblin Fruit)
- Eschatology, or the Myth of Death
- Well-Tending (Conte)
The Center of the Dream
- 4th
- Metaphor, from Model 8 (Red Eft)
- The experiment begins, from Model 8 (Illumen)
- Fly, from Model 8 (Beyond Centauri)
- Dreaming in American, from Model 8 (flashquake)
- Id, or the Relic, from Model 8 (View from Atlantis)
- Night mare, from Model 8 (flashquake)
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