Nebulous, writes

speculative fiction author, fanfiction connoisseur, lapslock aficionado, and number one defender of comic sans. i write short stories with vibes for plot & SFF novels featuring everything but the kitchen sink.

Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs, a painting by Frederic William Burton

Book(s?)

someday soon there will be more books here!!!! i manifest it! grahhh!!!

Black as Diamond

Coming Spring 2026~

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Short Fiction

Forthcoming

  • "Divinity, Abloom" - Tales and Feathers

  • "Tapetum Lucidum" - Augur Magazine

  • "Allomorphosis" - White Wall Review Issue 54

  • "When The World Will End..." - Saros Issue 3

2025

Cover for the Kinship MYRIAD zine featuring a stylistic graffiti-like illustration of several Black and Brown characters in a red car flying atop a cloudy blue background

"Like Embers"
Kinship MYRIAD zine

2023

Cover of The Year’s Best edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Eugen Bacon, and Milton Davis, depicting a Black African with a face painted in white marking, wearing traditional clothes and holding a carved mask

"When She Speaks"
The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 (reprint)

2022

Cover for Out There featuring a verdant city beneath a large orange planet with two silhouettes standing on a balcony to the right and the names of all the contributors lining the border

"Fractal Eyes"
Out There: Into The Queer New Yonder YA Anthology

Cover for Ninteen Speculative Stories vol. 2 depicting a Black woman with Afro hair and glitter makeup, with a blue overexposed copy of her face layered atop

"TAKEOFF"
Midnight & Indigo (Nineteen Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers Vol.2) Issue 6

2021

Cover for Augur issue 4.1 depicting a figure on a set of winding stairs staring in awe at a blue ethereal bird-like feature floating in the middle of the stairwell

"When She Speaks"
Augur Magazine Issue 4.1

Get in touch!

Use this form to send a message so that we can become evil pen pals >:)or email me:
um [at] nebulouswrites [dot] comFor publishing inquiries, please contact Emily Forney at BookEnds Literary.

The Archive™

  • 1: The book deal & other madness (January) - READ HERE

  • 2: Diving into edits & trying not to drown (February) - READ HERE

  • 3: The spectacle & distinction of disaster films (March) - READ HERE