SHORTER READS

All stories listed are fantasy. Most take place in or are linked to high fantasy worlds. Not all stories are romantic.

Any story with a heat rating may contain some explicit content. See the Story Pairings page for more information on heat levels and romantic content.

Platonic / No Romance

Make Me Real short story cover, with a tooth and jasmine flowers leading up to a cracked open door. Wispy steam is escaping through the door. The author's name looks glitched.

Make Me Real

Reality Cuts Like a Tooth.

A bogey knows one thing only: Its last given command. For a being fallen out of existence, collecting teeth is instinct, but also a fragment of hope.

Unfortunately, Korinna doesn’t appreciate being stalked in her bed. This latest tooth acquisition could be a lot harder than the tooth fairy thought.

☁︎ Bogeyman
☁︎ Reality Bender
☁︎ Burglar POV
☁︎ Tooth Fairy Reimagining
☁︎ Make Me a Deal
☁︎ Specter / Ghost Story
Urban Paranormal Fantasy

Available in blood+honey Literary Journal

Roulette short story cover, with a dial arrow inside a decorative octagon, over a background of uneven brick blocks.

Roulette

Your Life is the Stakes.

For a criminal sentenced to immortality during his civilization’s demise, there’s no way out of the room except a game board carved into his back. His last role alive is a guardian, and he can’t trust any tomb raiders who show up. But if he wants out before he goes insane, they’re the only ones who can play.

Fire & Lyra Universe
☼ Dystopian World
☼ Immortal Prisoner POV
☼ Dungeon Guardian
☼ Riddle Me This
☼ Labyrinth of Ruins
☼ Escape Room
☼ Story Worlds Crossover
☼ Play the Odds
Dystopian Portal Fantasy

Available in Beginnings & Endings Anthology

Fantasy Romance (HEAT / SPICE)

King Me Kitty short story cover, with pink eyes and purple lightning cheek marks over a purple and black striped background. The G on king is crowned with a checkers piece.

King Me Kitty

Make a Wish. Play Me for It.

Wishe can sniff out the best-tasting deals from a mile away, and this misfit is shaved ice if she doesn’t take his gamble. But the very secrets that make Feme his ideal customer are the ones that could make a Cheshire cat’s life hell. With the upper hand in this deal a swinging sword between the Cheshire who takes everything and the human girl jeopardizing his heart, to win might still be to lose.

In the Name of Cheshire
☆ Make Me an Offer
☆ Win Your Freedom
☆ Mercenary Party
☆ On the Run
☆ Contract One Night Stand
☆ Let’s Play a Game
☆ Cheshire Cat Negotiator
☆ Master of Disguise
☆ Short Male Lead
☆ Broker x Chore Girl
High-Heat Romantasy

Available in Volume 5 of Siren’s Song
Literary Journal

Quench to the Hilt short story cover, with a sword plunging into a potion vial.

Quench to the Hilt

To Poison is to Love. To Love is to Poison.

Hippo-shifting blacksmith Zaina doesn’t expect to be any more than a side quest. But when she’s dragged into a love potion scheme to take down the city’s up-and-coming hero, quenching Kiran’s second sword to keep him alive threatens to expose both of their true colors.

Knocking a haughty human hero onto his rear has nothing to do with it. Really.

⚒︎ Hero’s Party Spin-off
⚒︎ Blacksmith Side Quest
⚒︎ Hidden Agendas
⚒︎ Exotic Shifters
⚒︎ Unimpressed Heroine
⚒︎ Love Potion
⚒︎ Manga Monsters
⚒︎ Dark Swordsman
⚒︎ Battles
⚒︎ Impossible Choice
High-Heat Romantasy

Available in Love Potion 69 anthology

Man of Many Smiles short story cover, with a metal fan over purple silk sheets.

Man of Many Smiles

Smiles are Cheap. Strings are Dangerous.

Nobles and shifter clans are gathering at the mansion of her best friend’s notorious boyfriend, strategizing around skirmishes to win the war. But Kit can’t imagine a scenario where she doesn’t wish a noble would go die alone. With wit that cuts sharper than any knife and a nose for sideswiping her inquiries into intel oblivion, the scariest nobleman of all is taking it upon himself to wedge himself into her life.

Her life, not her best friend’s.

Kingmaker
♦︎ Best Friend Side Story
♦︎ Status Gap
♦︎ Pride and Prejudice
♦︎ Emissary x Sidekick
♦︎ Outspoken Heroine
♦︎ Pre-Epic Battle
♦︎ Forbidden Romance
♦︎ Dystopian One Night Stand
High-Heat Romantasy

Available in Seattle Ero Art Festival 2023Anthology

Mini Series

Rock Dragon Duology

Between a Rock and a Bar Fight short story cover, with an ale mug in front of a rock dragon's tail, surrounding a lute.

Between a Rock and a Bar Fight

Mind the Tail.

The earth dragon down the bar counter looks like he’d make a good after-work shield, when a dragon sect pesters Tessa the Bard with bad pickup lines. He also might be kind of hot. And talented with his tail.

Rock Collection Part I
♫ Bard and Dragon
♫ Secret Sect
♫ Bar After Work
♫ Rock Dragon Man
♫ Hybrid Shifter Gangs
♫ Bar Hookup / One Night Stand
High-Heat Romantasy

Available in Night Shift Anthology

Between a Rock and a Bard Place short story cover, with golden rings in front of a dark tower surrounded by a rock dragon's tail

Between a Rock and a Bard Place

Worth More than Gold.

Tessa’s one-night stand is missing. Singing songs about his capture is what any good bard should do, music rest his soul. But if she plays the heroine in the tale for the first time, she could save Theodyne’s life—and a dragon never forgets.

Rock Collection Part II
♫ Musician POV
♫ Secret Sects
♫ Dark Tower
♫ Nomadic Gig Lifestyle
♫ Human Dragon Man
♫ Reversal of Damsel in Distress
Romantasy with Spice

Available in Secrets We Keep Anthology