My latest story, The Girl with Starlight Hair, is now available in Kaleidotrope’s Autumn issue. You can read it by clicking here.

I first drafted this story when I challenged myself to write fairy tales that involved space and space travel. That challenge was borne of reading a comment that fairy tales don’t belong in space. I’m not the sort of person who has interest in arguing, but I will go home and write a story, dammit.

Very threatening, I know.

One of these fairy tales I wrote to claim space for myself in, um, space, is The Girl with Starlight Hair. The girl in question hasn’t always been a girl. She used to be a planet, and over her shoulder, she carries her dying sun. I pulled inspiration from folklore, daydreams, and the softness of my heart and I hope that she sparks something in you like she did for me.