writings

Latest release: Free audio version of “Just Another Date Night on the Highway Out of Town.” Narrated by bestselling author Alethea Kontis for StarShipSofa.

as by Zandra Renwick

  • “American Night” – Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (forthcoming)
  • “Better Places” – SYNTH #2: An Anthology of Dark SF (2019)
  • “The Dead Man’s Dog” – Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (Jan/Feb 2019 ) * Arthur Ellis Award finalist
  • “Elephant Teeth” – 3 Lobed Burning Eye (2020)* audio read by the author!
  • “The Epiphany Engine” – Dark Lane Vol. 10 (Spring 2021)
  • “A Good Thing and a Right Thing” –  Flame Tree Gothic: Lost Souls (2018) | also in Terror at the Crossroads: Best Horror tales from Dell Magazines (2018) (originally in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
  • “Gretel” – Flame Tree Gothic: Haunted House (2018) (In audio at Pseudopod)
  • “Is a Goodboy” – Flash Bang Mysteries (2020)
  • “Just Another Date Night on the Highway Out of Town” – PULP Literature #32 (2021)
  • “Killer Biznez” – Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (2020)
  • “Make America SK8” – A Punk Rock Future (2018)
  • “Making Happy” – If This Goes On (2019)
  • “Nightshift in Strange Rain” in Mystery Weekly Magazine (2021)
  • “Of Wrath” in Black Static (2021)
  • “Otherwhen” in Fusion Fragment (2021)
  • “Patent THIS” – Mad Scientist’s Journal (2019)
  • “Prepandemic Travelogia: City of Doors” – Great Lakes Review (2021)
  • “Random Blonde” – Jerry Jazz (2019)

as by Alex C. Renwick or Alexandra Renwick

  • “As Mistress Wishes” – 49th Parallels (2017)
  • “baleen, baleen” – Interzone (2018)
  • “Because Reasons” – Asimov’s (2018)
  • “Between the Branches of the Nine” – Playground of Lost Toys (2015)
  • “Down Where the Best Lilies Grow” – 10Flash Magazine (2011) *reprinted in Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (2012)
  • “Then Our Skin, Then Our Bones” – Futuristica Vol 2 anthology (2017)
  • “The Hairy Man” – Those Who Make Us  anthology (2016)
  • “Halloween: an Unlove Story” – 200 CCs (2016)
  • “Imaginary Sisters” – Mslexia (2016)
  • “The Life of an Artifact in Duodecadal Glances” – Map Literary (2017)
  • “Killer Details” – 50-Word Stories (2017)
  • “The Monsieur” – The Baltimore Review (2017)
  • “My Month of Meating” – CHROMA Magazine, The Red Issue (2017)
  • “Or Current Resident“ – a Great Jones Street original (2017)
  • “A Peripheral Vision Sort of Friend” – Blurring the Line (2015)
  • “Quality of Life” – A Stupefying Stories Showcase (2018)
  • “Ravenblack” – Women in Practical Armour (2016) | reprinted in the Flame Tree Gothic series
  • “Redux” – Murder Mayhem (Flame Tree Gothic Series, 2016) | Reprinted in Year’s Best Hardcore Horror (2017) | in AUDIOTales to Terrify
  • “Shallow Sand” – Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (2018)
  • “Sweet Master Pookie-Shmookie” – The Arcanist (2017)
  • “Three-Step Program” – The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir (2015)
  • “A Week in the Superlife” – Tesseracts 21: Superhero Universe (2016)
  • “Wine-dark” – Phobos Magazine (2017)
  • “Wonderband” – Alice Unbound (2018)

as by Camille Alexa

PUSH OF THE SKY: collected works (2009) *STARRED REVIEW in Publishers Weekly

+ more stories:

My story "Children of the Device" in Here be Monsters: Tongues and Teeth. (as by Camille Alexa)
  • “After the Pipers” – Triangulation: Morning After (2012)
  • “All The Layers of the World” (with Steven Utley) – Postscripts (2015)
  • “All Them Pretty Babies” – OnSpec Magazine (apocalypse issue award winner, 2012)
  • “And All Its Truths” – Subversion | Crossed Genres (2011)
  • “The Beetle Eater’s Dream” – Space & Time Magazine #106 (2008)
  • “The Butterfly Assassins” – Magic & Mechanica  (2009)
  • “Calamari, Baby!” – Ocean Stories (2012)
  • “Children of the Device” – Here Be Monsters: Tongues & Teeth (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)
  • “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 Flatwoods Monster” – Beyond Centauri #30 (2010)
  • “Flaming Marshmallow and Other Deaths”  – Machine of Death  (2010)
  • “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)
  • “GIRLIE” (with Steven Utley) – Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (2016)
  • “The Girl-Shaped Jar” – Flash Fiction Online (2011)
  • “Goodness, Her Tail” – GEEK LOVE anthology (2012)
  • “The Good Old-Fashioned Kind of Water” – Crossed Genres Magazine | Best of Year 1 (2009)
  • “A Good Thing and a Right Thing” – Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (2013)
  • “The Green Infinity” – Abyss & Apex (2008)
  • “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 STEAM Festival short play contest, performed at the Academy Theatre in Avondale Estates, Georgia (June, 2010)
  • “In Libitina’s House” – Chilling Tales 2 (2013)
  • “The Italian” – first appeared as “Night Vaulting” in Sporty Spec; Games of the Fantastic (2007)
  • “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)
  • “Kisses for Wishes” – Black Box  (2008)
  • “A Man of Science” – Strange, Weird,& Wonderful (2009)
  • “Monday, the Wager” – Assassin’s Canon (2010)
  • “Occupational Hazards for the Late-night Girl” – 42 Magazine (Vol. 1, #2, 2009)
  • “Over a Narrow Sea” – Beneath Ceaseless Skies (2011)
  • “Over it” – Futuredaze (2013)
  • “Particular Friends” – The Red Penny Papers (2010)
  • “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)
  • “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)
  • “Skin of Her Skin” – FISH (2013)
  • “Station Thirteen” – Tainted (2008)
  • “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)
  • “The Weight of Space and Metal” – A Mosque Among the Stars (2008)
  • “Weird Fruits” – It Came From Planet Mars  (2008)
  • “Zombie Boyfriends are Totally In for Spring” – Everyday Weirdness  (2010)