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PUSH OF THE SKY - A collection of short works written as Camille Alexa.

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“Impressive debut collection covers a wide variety of subgenres, among which she switches with ease … a welcome new addition to genre fiction.” – Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW

short fiction bibliography

  • "After the Pipers" - Triangulation: Morning After (2012)

  • "All The Layers of the World" (with Steven Utley) - Postscripts (2015) 

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  • "All Them Pretty Babies" - OnSpec Magazine (apocalypse issue contest winner, 2012) | in AUDIO at Cast of Wonders

  • "American Night" - Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (2024) *finalist for the Canadian Crime Writers Awards of Excellence

  • "And All Its Truths" - Subversion | Crossed Genres (2011)

  • "As Mistress Wishes" - 49th Parallels (2017)

  • "baleen, baleen" - Interzone (2018)

  • "Because Reasons" - Asimov's (2018)

  • "The Beetle Eater’s Dream" - Space & Time Magazine #106 (2008)

  • "Between the Branches of the Nine" - Playground of Lost Toys (2015)

  • "The Butterfly Assassins" - Magic & Mechanica  (2009)

  • "Calamari, Baby!" - Ocean Stories (2012)

  • "The Clone Wrangler’s Bride" - SpaceWesterns.com  (2007)

  • "Cold, Dark, Deep" - Harvest Hill (2009)

  • "Daughters of Tethys" - Suction Cup Dreams: an octopus anthology (2014)

  • "The Dead Man's Dog" - Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (2019)

  • "Down Where the Best Lilies Grow" - 10Flash Magazine (2011) *reprinted in Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (2012)

  • "Droidtown Blues" - SpaceWesterns.com (2008)

  • "Drowntown" - Blood & Water (2012)

  • "The Eyes of Kaha'i" - Lovecraft Film Festival (2018)

  • "Extra Midnight" - 120 Murders Anthology, Nick Mamatas, ed (2024)

  • "The Flatwoods Monster" - Beyond Centauri, Issue #30 (2010)

  • "Flaming Marshmallow and Other Deaths"  - Machine of Death  (2010)   / in AUDIO at Escape Pod (2008)

  • "Flor de Muerto" - Dia de los Muertos (2010)

  • "Fly, Fly, Pretty Monkey" - Shadows of the Emerald City (2009)

  • "Flying Solo" - Desolate Places (2008)

  • "For They Are As Beasts" - The Blackness Within | Apex Books (2010)

  • "Four Jerks of the Apocalypse" - RevolutionSF (2009)

  • "Ghost Dog of Georgia" - The Old Weird South (2012)

  • "Goodness, Her Tail" - GEEK LOVE anthology (2012) [caption id="attachment_471" align="alignright" width="161"]

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  • "The Good Old-Fashioned Kind of Water" - Crossed Genres Magazine | Best of Year 1 (2009)

  • "GIRLIE" (with Steven Utley) - Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (2016)

  • "The Girl-Shaped Jar" - Flash Fiction Online (2011)

  • "A Good Thing and a Right Thing" - Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (2013) | Flame Tree Lost Souls (2018) | Terror at the Crossroads (Dell Magazines, 2018)

  • "The Green Infinity" - Abyss & Apex (2008) | in AUDIO at Centropic Oracle

  • "Gretel" - The Devil’s Food  (2009) | Flame Tree Press Haunted House (2018) | in AUDIO at Pseudopod (2010)

  • "The Hairy Man" - Those Who Make Us (2016)

  • "Halloween: an Unlove Story" - 200 CCs (2016)

  • "Hardly Never in Vegas" - Nautilus Magazine (2013)

  • "Hey, Baby" - Boston Literary Magazine  (Fall 2007)

  • "His Sweet Truffle of a Girl" - Fungi (2012)

  • "Imaginary Sisters" - Mslexia (2016)

  • "In a Pale Room" - Reflection’s Edge (2009)

  • "Inclusions" - RUINS Extraterrestrial  (2007)

  • "Industriously Yours" [short play]  - winner of the Steampunk Festival short play contest, performed at the second annual STEAM Fest at the Academy Theatre in Avondale Estates, Georgia (June, 2010) | in audio at Gallery of Curiosities (forthcoming)

  • "The Italian" - first appeared as "Night Vaulting" in Sporty Spec; Games of the Fantastic (2007)

  • "In Libitina’s House" - Chilling Tales 2 (2013)

  • "The Life of an Artifact in Duodecadal Glances" - Map Literary (2017)

  • "Light as Air and Death" - Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (Jan/Feb issue, 2013)

  • "Lovely Young Losers" - Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (Sept issue, 2014)

  • "Killer Details" - 50-Word Stories (2017)

  • "Kisses for Wishes" - Black Box  (2008)

  • "Make America SK8 Again" - A Punk Rock Future anthology (forthcoming)

  • "Making Happy" - If This Goes On (forthcoming)

  • "A Man of Science" - Strange, Weird,& Wonderful (2009)

  • "Monday, the Wager" - Assassin’s Canon (2010)

  • "The Monsieur" - The Baltimore Review (2017)

  • "My Month of Meating" - CHROMA Magazine, The Red Issue (2017)

  • "Occupational Hazards for the Late-night Girl" - 42 Magazine (Vol. 1, #2, 2009)

  • "Or Current Resident" - Great Jones Street original (2017)

  • "Over a Narrow Sea" - Beneath Ceaseless Skies (2011)

  • "Over it" - Futuredaze (2013)

  • "Particular Friends" - The Red Penny Papers (2010)

  • "A Peripheral Vision Sort of Friend" - Blurring the Line (2015)

  • "Pinktastic and the End of the World"- When the Villain Comes Home (2012)

  • "Poppies So Red, Bones So White" - Courting Morpheus (2010)

  • "A Pretty Lucky Day" - The Four Horsemen (2010)

  • "The Price of Osmosis" - Raw Terror  (2010)

  • "The Pull of the World and the Push of the Sky" - Origins  (2009)

  • "Quality of Life" - A Stupefying Stories Showcase (2018)

  • "Ravenblack" - Women in Practical Armour (2016)

  • "Redux" - Murder Mayhem (Flametree Press, 2016) | Reprinted in Year's Best Hardcore Horror (2017) | in AUDIOTales to Terrify

  • "Repair Parts" - On Spec #93 (Summer 2013)

  • "Sarah 87" - Murky Depths magazine #11 (2009) / Crossed Genres: Menial (2013)

  • "Seeds of the Lotus" - Shanghai Steam (2012)

  • "Shades of White and Road" - Fantasy Magazine (2009) / in AUDIO at Fantasy Magazine Podcast (2009)

  • "Shallow Sand" - Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (2018)

  • "Skin of Her Skin" - FISH (2013) [caption id="attachment_1280" align="alignright" width="160"]

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  • "Station Thirteen" - Tainted (2008)

  • "Sweet Master Pookie-Shmookie" - The Arcanist (2017)

  • "The Taste of Snow" - Aftermaths (2012)

  • "Terra Incognita" - Breaking Waves (2010)

  • "The Thief and the Thorn" - Renaissance Festival Tales  (2010)

  • "Things from Things" - Fearology (2011)

  • "Things Never Change" - Bards & Sages Quarterly (October 2009)

  • "Three-Step Program" - The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir (2015)

  • "Three Times" - Clockwork Phoenix IV (2013)

  • "To Heroboy From Tiffani" - A Thousand Faces digest (Fall, 2007)

  • "Veilsight" - RUINS Metropolis  (2008)

  • "Visiting the Bone Merchant" - Black Box  (2008)

  • "A Week in the Superlife" - Tesseracts 21: Superhero Universe (2016)

  • "The Weight of Space and Metal" - A Mosque Among the Stars (2008)

  • "Weird Fruits" - It Came From Planet Mars  (2008)

  • "Wine-dark" - Phobos Magazine (2017)

  • "Wonderband" - Alice Unbound (2018)

  • "Zombie Boyfriends are Totally In for Spring" - Everyday Weirdness  (2010) / in AUDIO at Toasted Cake (2012)

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Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories

Canadian Superstories of Heroes & Villains | co-edited with Claude Lalumière[/caption]

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