Short Stories

Short Stories

Here is a list of the short stories I’ve published, or that will soon appear in some publication or the other. I try to keep it up to date as much as possible, but sometimes life gets a little too busy and I forget. Some of them are free to read online, others you have to buy :-))

The Person in the Metal, to be published in African Ghost Anthology, Flame Tree Publishing, 2024

The Child of Clay, published in The Best of World SF vol 2, 2022

The Blue House, published in Africa Risen anthology, by Tor.com, macmillan publishers, 2022

Braveheart’s Homecoming, Bengali Translation, 2022

Kifaro, published in Weirdbook Annual: Special Zombie Issue, 2021

Yat Madit, published in Africanfuturism Anthology, 2021

The Last Storyteller, published in Afrofuturism, 2020

Red_Bati, published in Dominion Anthology, 2020

Abiba, published in Omenana Magazine, 2019

Safari Nyota, published in Afro SF 3, 2018

The Taking of Oleng, published in The African Literary Hustle, 2018

Obibi, published in A World of Horror anthology, 2018

Where Rivers Go to Die, published in Redemption Song and Other Stories anthology, 2018

Two Weddings for Amoit, published in Pride and Prejudice Vol 1: The Gerald Kraak Anthology, 2017

Cloud of Light, written for my patrons and released for free.

The Music Maker, published in Myriad Lands: Volume 1, 2016

Braveheart’s Homecoming, published in Mithila Review, January 2016

Snake Blood, published in Imagine Africa 500, 2016

The Flying Man of Stone, published in AfroSF v2, ed., Ivor Haartman, 2015

Monwor, published in African Monsters, 2015

How My Father Became a God, published in Apex Book of World SF 4. First published in Terra Incognita, ed. Nerine Dorman, published by Short Story Day Africa 2015

Onen and his Daughter, published in Jalada, 2015. Reprinted in Sunsport Jungle, 2018

The Greenmen Who Fly, published in Unconventional Fantasy, Vol 2: 40 Years of the World Fantasy Conventions, 2014

Lights on Water, published in The Short Anthology, 2014

The Broken Pot, published in Feast, Famine & Potluck, 2013

Cranes Crest at Sunset, novella published by Story Moja.

The Puppets of Maramudhu, in the African Roar 2013 anthology. Get it on Kindle. First published in StoryTime, February 2012

Stones Bounce on Water, published in Storymoja.com, April 2011

The Young Matchmaker, published in The Kathmandu Post, 4th July 2010

In Search of a Smoke, published in Gowanus Books, 2007

Homecoming, published in Gowanus Books, 2007, and nominated for the 2008 Million Writers Award: Notable Online Fiction of 2007

Billy is Three Weeks Dead, published in Dead Men (and Women) Walking, 2006

Fragments of Canvas, published in Dark Fire, January 2005

Stu’s Honeymoon, published in The Swamp, 2004

Death in the Moonlight, published in The Sunday Vision, May 2001

The Campaign Agent, published in The Sunday Vision, May 2001

The Soldier’s Wife, published in The Sunday Vision, February 2001

The First War, published in The Sunday Vision, January 2001