Short Fiction

• Welcome, Karate read online, The Dark #73, June 2021
  (5800 words : horror : karate, swimming pool, gym, jock)

• Sweet Sting read online, The White Review Short Story Prize Shortlist, May 2020
  (4400 words : absurdism / satire : the uk government, war for profit, beatings, latex)

• Lapis read online, Clarkesworld #156, September 2019
  (7300 words : sci-fantasy : nanobots, immortality, games)

• The Wiley read online, The Dark #48, May 2019
  (5400 words : weird : tech startups, a computer virus, a creature made of loneliness)

• Burrowing Machines read online, The Dark #44, January 2019
  (3800 words : horror : transport engineering, an underground river, a missing sister)

• The Calm the Love the Traceless Land read online, Anathema #4, April 2018
  (2500 words : weird : surreal hotel, the desert)

• The Triumphant Ward of the Railroad and the Sea read online, Shimmer #42, March 2018
  (5500 words : weird : a sleeper train, the sea, competitive eating, friendship and an unsolved mystery)

• Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics (with Jess Barber) read online, Clarkesworld #132, September 2017
  (12100 words : science fiction : urban design, sexy showering, Beirut, polyamory, water scarcity, Nantes, and copious intellectual sparring)

• The Barrette Girls read online, Liminal Stories #3, May 2017
  (5100 words : dark fantasy : an unnatural group of girls, their heartless chaperone, personhood, trauma and suffering)

• Immortal Still read online, Freeze Frame Fiction q11/q12, April 2017
  (1000 words : literary : mortality and love)

• Suddenwall read online, Beneath Ceaseless Skies #220, March 2017
  (4300 words : high fantasy : love, genocide, and the sentient city Vannat)

• Twilight Travels with the Grape-Paper Man read online, The Dark #20, January 2017
  (3700 words : dark fantasy : a dolma-mummy, gender, belonging, and summer vacations in the mountains of Lebanon)

• The Cedar Grid read online, Clarkesworld #115, April 2016
  (4900 words : science fiction : spacefaring Lebanese diaspora, interplanetary dynasties, unspeakable loss, illicit love)

• Salt and Cement and Other Denials read online, Lackington’s #9 (‘Architectures’), February 2016
  (2400 words : weird fiction : genderfluid and porny pepé le pew–but with barnacles)

• In the Queue for the Worldship Munawwer read online, Clarkesworld #110, November 2015
  (4100 words : science fiction : far-future Beirut, a fleet of worldships, a space exodus, identity and mortality, an absent parent, an absent daughter)

• Little Seller of La Quarantaine read online, 3LBE # 27, September 2015
  (6500 words : historical fantasy : a cursed ship docks at a 19th c Ottoman quarantine on the Beyrouth coast, help from unusual places)

• Hani’s: Purveyor of Rusks, Biscuits, and Sweet Tea read online, The Dark #9, August 2015
  (3700 words : horror : intrepid village children vie to unmask a sinister candymaker in his sinister tea-house)

• Rush Down, Roar Gently, Interzone #259, July 2015
  (4900 words : science fantasy : rain for 100 days, near-future drowning Beirut, an old woman’s quest to reconcile with a beloved friend)

• Calamity, the Silent Trick read online, The Dark #6, November 2014
  (4400 words : dark fantasy : a dedicated young boxer entangles with the elemental fates of the world…and with their tragic parlour trick)

• “The Botix,” Cicada Magazine, November 2014 (read online: reprinted on Curious Fictions)
  (2000 words : science fiction / YA : a kind and loving house-robot harbours terrible secrets)

• Blood Pepper and Brave Meat read online, Betwixt #5, October 2014
  (5400 words : historical fantasy / YA : a young girl, an illicit performance enhancing drug, a ruthless gladiator)

• Be Light. Be Pure. Be Close to Heaven, Black Static #42, September 2014 (read online: reprinted on Curious Fictions)
  (4400 words : horror : a member of a covert cult of voluntary amputees finds herself at a crossroads)

• A Trail of Demure Virgins read online, Fantasy Magazine, December 2008
  (3500 words : literary : repentance, religion, contemplative silence, religious icons in the Lebanese foothills)

• “No Bubblewrap for Little Guys,” Electric Velocipede #14, 2008
  (1000 words : literary : a frantic market chase after a running boy uncovers a sad act of heroism)