Merc Rustad

Forthcoming

 

• Sweet Dreams Are Made From You—Nightmare Magazine (TBA)
• Through Dark and Clearest Glass—Unlocking the Magic (ed. by Vivian Caethe) (May 2019) Pre-order here.
• The Judith Plague—Do Not Go Quietly (ed. by Jason Sizemore and Lesley Conner). Apex Books 2019. Pre-order here.
• Monster Girls Don’t Cry (reprint)—The Best of Uncanny (Subterranean Press 2019). Pre-order here.
• Fathoms Deep and Fathoms Cold (reprint)—PodCastle (TBA)

 

2019

With Teeth Unmake The Sun —published in Lightspeed, January 2019.

Our Aim Is Not To Die—published in The People’s Future of the United States (ed. by John Joseph Adams and Victor LaValle), February 2019. Amazon | B&N | Powell’s | Website

 

2018

• The Frequency of Compassion—published in Disabled People Destry SF! Uncanny Magazine, September/October 2018.
• The Words of Our Enemies, The Words of Our Hearts—published in Sword and Sonnet (ed. by Aidan Doyle, Rachael K. Jones and E. Catherine Tobler), September 2018.
• Yet So Vain Is Man — published in Galaxy’s Edge, September 2018.
• By Claw, By Hand, By Silent Speech—(written with Elsa Sjunneson-Henry)—published in Uncanny Dinosaur Issue, July/August 2018.
• The Sweetness of Honey and Rot — published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, June 2018.
• If We Die Unjustified — published in Uncanny Magazine, May/June 2018.
• I Sing Against the Silent Sun—(written with Ada Hoffmann)— published in Lightspeed Magazine, June 2018.
• Now Watch My Rising — published in Fireside, May 2018.
• Mr. Try Again — published in Nightmare Magazine, March 2018.
• it me, ur smol —self-published, March 2018.
• (reprint) Brightened Star, Ascending Dawn —published in Lightspeed Magazine, March 2018.

2017

• The House At the End of the Lane Is Dreaming — published in Lightspeed Magazine, December 2017.
• Longing For Stars Once Lost — published in Lightspeed Magazine, October 2017.
• This Is A Picture Book — [interactive fiction] published in sub-Q, November 2017.
• Two Reflections At Midnight—published in Gamut Magazine # 9, September 2017.
• For Now, Sideways — published in Diabolical Plots, August 2017.
• Thrice Remembered — The Death of All Things, ed by Laura Anne Gilman and Kat Richardson, September 2017.
• (reprint) This Is Not A Wardrobe Door — Transcendent 2:The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction ed. by Bogi Takács (Lethe Press 2017).
• Fathoms Deep and Fathoms Cold — Submerged, ed. by  S.C. Butler and Joshua Palmatier, September 2017.
• What the Fires Burn — published in PodCastle (original), August 2017.
• Brightened Star, Ascending Dawn — Humans Wanted, ed. by Vivian Caethe, August 2017.
• (reprint) The Gentleman of Chaos —Wilde Stories 2017, ed. by Steve Berman, Lethe Press 2017.
• Monster Girls Don’t Cry — published in Uncanny Magazine #14, January 2017.
• Later, Let’s Tear Up the Inner Sanctum — published in Lightspeed Magazine, February 2017.
• (reprint) Tomorrow When We See the Sun — Cosmic Powers, ed. by John Joseph Adams, April 2017.
• Painting Clouds — published in Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, February 2017.
• Bodies Like Galaxies — Nasty, ed. by Anna Yeatts and Chris Phillips, May 2017. [erotica]
• Taste Yourself — published in Great Jones Street, February 2017. [erotica]

2016

• What Becomes Of The Third-Hearted — published in Shimmer 33, September 2016.
• The Gentleman of Chaos — published in Apex Magazine, August 2016.
• Iron Aria — published in Issue 34 of Fireside, July 2016.
• Lonely Robot in a Rocket Ship in Space — published in Cicada Magazine, July/August 2016.
• Finding Home (reprint) — published in issue #74 of Lightspeed Magazine, July 2016.
• Once I, Rose — published on May 27th, 2016 at Daily Science Fiction.
• This Is Not a Wardrobe Door — published in Issue 29 of Fireside , January 2016. Audio (full-cast recording!) at PodCastle in April 2016.
• The Android’s Prehistoric Menagerie—published in Issue 2 of Mothership Zeta, February 2016.
• …Or Be Forever Fallen—published in InterGalactic Medicine Show, February 2016
•  To the Knife-Cold Stars  (reprint) — Wilde Stories 2016: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, ed. Steve Berman (Lethe Press)
• Where Monsters Dance (reprint)—Transcendent : The Best Transgender Fiction 2016, ed. K. M. Szpara (Lethe Press)
• How To Become A Robot In 12 Easy Steps  (reprint) — Cicada Magazine (September/October 2016)
• Where Monsters Dance (reprint) — Heiress of Russ: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction 2016, ed. by Steve Berman and Alyx Dellamonica (Lethe Press).
• For Want of a Heart — Absolute Power: Tales of Queer Villainy anthology, ed. Erica Friedman (December 2016)

2015

• Under Wine-Bright Seas — published in Issue 9 of Scigentasy, May 2015.
• The Sorcerer’s Unattainable Gardens — published in Daily Science Fiction, April 2015. Reprinted in the anthology, LOVE HURTS (December 2015, ed. by Tricia Reeks). Podcast at Far Fetched Fables.
• Where Monsters Dance — published in Inscription Magazine, March 2015. Podcast in PodCastle on 10/13/15.
• Finding Home — published in the #1 issue of  Vitality Magazine, March 2015. Reprinted in Lightspeed, July 2016.
• To the Knife-Cold Stars — published (text and audio) in Escape Pod on February 7, 2015.
• Tomorrow When We See the Sun — published (text and audio) in Lightspeed Magazine, December 2015.

2014

• To the Monsters, With Love — published May 2014 in Flash Fiction Online.
• Goodnight, Raptor — published March 2014 in Daily Science Fiction.
• How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps — published in Issue 4 of Scigentasy, March 2014. Podcast at GlitterShip 4/2/15. Reprinted in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (ed. Joe Hill and John Joseph Adams). Reprinted in Cicada (Sep./Oct. 2016 issue).
• Winter Bride — published in Kaleidotrope Winter 2014 issue.

2013

• Thread —  published December 2013 in Vol.12, Issue 4 of Ideomancer.
• Of Blessed Servitude — published November 2013 in Episode 1 of Fictionvale. Audio reprint at Escape Pod in May 2016.
• Hero’s Choice — serialized in Silver Blade beginning December 2012 (finished in 2013).

2009-2012

• With the Sun and the Moon in His Eyes —  published February 2012 from Tyche Books‘ Ride the Moon anthology; reprinted in Blood Iris 2012 in late October, 2012.
• Sheila — published on December 6th, 2010 in Daily Science Fiction. Reprinted in the 1st issue of Scigentasy.
• And the Teeth — published in The Red Penny Papers  in December 2010.
• One With the Monsters — published in the Summer 2010 issue of New Fables. Podcast on 11/11/11 at Anthropomorphic Dreams.
• Moo — published in the November 2009 issue of Nossa Morte.