Audio
Vedritsa of the River, PodCastle, 2025
(Text originally published in Trollbreath Magazine, 2025)
A supernatural creature must choose between her dangerous urges and the love of her long existence. With elements from Bulgarian folklore (rusalkas), sapphic romance, cli-fi themes, and my small contribution towards normalizing women’s aging.
Affinition, Manawaker Flash Fiction Podcast, 2025
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A first-contact from the point of view of an alien with extraordinary senses that reach much deeper than the skin.
Salvaged, Escape Pod, 2022
Translated into Bulgarian, подкаст “Българска Фантастика”, 2024 (Bulgarian Speculative Fiction Podcast)
A loose retelling of “Snow White” set in the orbit of a decimated Earth.
Online
Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope, The Daily Tomorrow, 2025
A medical quantum procedure to revert a body to a previous state changes more than the body.
Vedritsa of the River, Trollbreath Magazine, 2025
A supernatural creature must choose between her dangerous urges and the love of her long existence. With elements from Bulgarian folklore (rusalkas), sapphic romance, cli-fi themes, and my small contribution towards normalizing women’s aging.
Non-Fiction
Handling Longer Projects Without Relying on a Plot Outline, Planetside: The Online Magazine of SFWA, 2025
I love exploratory drafting, but the result is often a revision nightmare. In this piece, I’m talking about my emerging strategies to address this.
Other Fiction
Beyond the Hills They Passed, Lucent Dreaming, 2025
In the Unforgivable Desert, the Diviners read auspices to protect the people. One day, the High Diviner takes Urti’s little sister. No auspice bearer has ever left the Augrium alive.
Contraction, Twenty-two Twenty-eight, 2025
Reprinted in Turn&Work, 2026
Becoming a mother is a disorienting, world-shifting experience, where the mother’s perception contracts to an intense entity of love, longing, and inevitability.
The Librarian, Shoreline of Infinity 29, 2021
Reprinted in Stupefying Stories, 2023
A gothic flash featuring one strange librarian in an even stranger library
Bread and Iron, Short Circuit (Short Édition), 2019
Ruritarian fantasy about a mysterious courting: is the suitor a demon or someone less extraordinary but certainly not mundane?
Tonight, on the bus, UnSung Literary Magazine, 2018
An experimental piece about missed chances.
Clara, Electric Spec, 2017
A story about loss and love with mild horror elements.
Poems
Green Blade, Sylvia Magazine, 2023
Even a single blade of grass has strength
The Mountain Said, Offshoots 15 by Geneva Writers’ Group, 2020
A poem about change and hope.
Adriana Kantcheva 