Narrative Designer | Sci-fi & Fantasy Author
Hayley Stone
Short Fiction & Poetry

Short Fiction & Poetry

Upcoming

“The Deep End of Longing” – Saltwater Sorrows, upcoming August 2023


Short Fiction

First Mother’s Fear” – Kaleidotrope, October 2022

Five Visits to the Smallest Closet in the Imperial Capital” – Daily Science Fiction, August 2022

Love in the Time of Disconnect” | reprinted in Fusion Fragment, 2022 | Audio originally published in StarShipSofa, August 2020

The Doll Mender” – Factor Four Online, July 2022

The Black Dog Gone Gray” – F&SF, Nov/Dec 2021

The Ghosts of Everest” – The Colored Lens, TBD

GRD-N3R” – Martian, September 2021

A Subtle Fire Beneath the Skin” – reprinted in The Future Fire, April 2021 | Originally published in Sword & Sonnet: An Anthology of Battle Poets, September 2018

“Faith Bacon Dances Again” – Curious Fictions, July 2019

“A Clear Line Marks the Soul” – Curious Fictions, May 2019

“Late Bloomer” – Curious Fictions, April 2019

Cold Iron Comfort” – Apex Magazine, February 2019 | Audio version

Untimely Frost, Unlikely Bloom” – Flash Fiction Online, July 2018

When the Tides Bring You Back” – Factor Four Magazine, Issue 2, June 2018

The Six Raptor-Wives of the Utah Rangelands” – Robot Dinosaurs, June 2018

Red to Hide the Blood” – Mrs. Claus: Not the Fairy Tale You Know, World Weaver Press, November 2017, Pushcart Prize nominee

Caesura” – Fireside Magazine, November 2017 | Escape Pod (Audio version), December 2018

Troubleshooting” – World Domination: A Supervillain Anthology, June 2017


Poetry:

How to Prepare a Mermaid’s Voice for Serving” – Kaleidotrope, Spring 2023

Giving the Moon Back to the Moon” – Eternal Haunted Summer, December 2021

Cautionary Tail” – Star*Line, Fall 2021

Palimpsest” – Eternal Haunted Summer, upcoming Summer Solstice Issue 2021

“A Record of Starvation at the End of the Vampyric Era” – Star*Line, Winter 2021

“Werewolf, Interrupted” – Mirror Dance, Autumn 2020

Falling Out” – The Future Fire, May 2019

Results of Your Quiz: Which Survivor of the Trojan War Are You?” – The Future Fire, November 2018

Apostasy” – Wild Musette, October 2018

What Big Teeth” – Star*Line, August 2018

Daphne’s Grove” – The Future Fire, July 2018

Black Swan” – Liminality, June 2018

Lament from the Ruin Mounds” – Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice Issue 2018

Petrified” – New Myths Magazine, March 2018

“On the Reservation” – Calaveras Station Literary Journal, 2015

“Cinderella Comes Out of Egypt” – Calaveras Station Literary Journal, 2014