I’m a fan of speculative fiction, and that’s what I tend to write. Here’s where you can find links to my published fiction and other creative writing.
- “The second guitar comes in on the downbeat” In this story, published by The Ginger Collect, I make the idea of an earworm literal. (The Ginger Collect’s archives are no longer online, but you can read this on my blog.)
- “Dreams of the Jurassic” This story, published by Asymmetry Fiction, asks what would happen if dreams could come true.
- “Again and again and again and” This prose poem on the end of the world and renewal and hope was published by formercactus.
- “But Then the Mice Began to Change” This story, published by The Molotov Cocktail, is about the desire to create life and, instead, accidentally transforming it.
- “We exist, and that’s enough” Literary Cleveland published this micro essay on parenting during a pandemic and remembering to appreciate small pleasures.
- “I admire the resilience of weeds” This prose poem on adaptability and the natural world was published by Literary Cleveland. (And it was republished in 2022 as part of National Flash Fiction Day’s FlashFlood.)
- “The Teeth Were Sharp, The Eyes Were Wide” This piece of flash fiction on monsters and the way fear makes the world small was published by The Cabinet of Heed.
- “1802” The Molotov Cocktail published this small epistolary tale of monsters and a town and a monster hunter in its 2020 Flash Monster issue.
- “Gestalt (noun): a theory that a whole is different from and more than its disparate parts” This micro on the moments that make up a life was published by (mac)ro(mic).
- “an ear, a heart, a life a life a life” Emerge Literary Journal published this story about the give and take of life and love. This was nominated for Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions.
- “Setting: Everywhere and nowhere, all at once” Milk Candy Review published this small flash on finding home in different places. (And here’s a small Q and A about the piece.)
- “The Tale of the Looming What If” This piece was part of “It Came From Beneath the Ink!,” an R.L. Stine tribute anthology published by ELJ Editions.
- “Ghosts of the Mundane” HAD published this piece on the way the past can haunt us if we let it.
- “Calculate for the sum of it all” This piece, which uses word problems to take on regret, opportunities and more, was published by Emerge Literary Journal.
Rachel Abbey McCafferty 