Bio | Published Work |
“Creative, but not in a good way”
Hi! I write short stories. Here’s my stuff.
The Worst Room In Your House (read for free!)
“You should put a trap at the bottom of the stairs. Like a pit full of spikes.”
Prime Number Jan ’23
Withdrawal Letter – micro in Splonk issue 9, April ’23
Down Here, Where I Can Keep You Safe (listen for free!) *
“The bones listened to you. They let you go.”
Creepy Podcast March 2023 – narrated by Alicia Atkins (my shit starts around 19:00 and be warned, it’s a super long story – I mean it’s good, too, it’s one of my favorites, just long.)
Pain Wins * (click to order)
“Magic doesn’t win a fight. Pain wins a fight.”
Old Moon Quarterly Spring ’23
Bucket List – micro in Final Girl at the Daily Drunk, March 2023
Super Black
“It’s all a joke! But it’s my joke. You’re doing it wrong.”
Coming in X-R-A-Y, Septemberish
Emperor Jeff
“Who’s the emperor here and who’s the used timeline salesman, Kevin.”
Coming in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Don’t Make It Weird
“Oh wow. You guys really had a lot of scotch tape.”
Coming in Pithead Chapel, summer ’23
The Lightbulb Cannot Be Changed *
“Happiness is a perverse thing. A distorted view of the world. Cruel.”
Coming in Bourbon Penn
One Thousand Islands
“Just tell me it’s an affair. Tell me you don’t love me. Tell me it’s not about salad dressing.”
Coming at failbetter
The Last Stand of the Tooth Fairies
“The problem with a baby is that you can only fire it out of a cannon once.”
Coming in Cossmass Infinities Nov ’23
Garbage Out (read for free!) * – micro in the substack for Body Fluids (Jan 23)
Stay Down (click to order)
“What hushed and vicious argument had transpired, on whether to greet me with grace or violence?”
Illustrated Worlds Spring 2023
Disaster Mode
“It’s midnight under a full moon and we’re deep in the forest, like proper witches.”
Coming in the Dragon Gems anthology from Water Dragon, summer 2023
I’m Gonna Show You Something Awful *
“I have dug some holes in my life, boy howdy. Have you had to dig holes yet?”
Podcast coming in Tales to Terrify
A Simple Procedure
“You have the look of an onanist. Pale and sickly.”
Coming in the Band of Bards anthology zine “Dark Side of Purity”
Scented Trash Bags (read for free!) – drabble in Scribes Micro Fiction (Dec ’22)
The Big Chill Except With the Ducklings From Make Way For Ducklings, Now All Grown Up (read for free!)
“Someday Michael won’t be there to stop the traffic.”
McSweeney’s, 2019
* My mother has asked me to indicate which stories she should not read. Here you go, mom! Love you!
Sasha Brown is a hard worker who always tries his best. His surreal fiction is in lit mags like X-R-A-Y and Pithead Chapel and in genre mags like Bourbon Penn and F&SF. He’s on twitter @dantonsix and online at sashabrownwriter.com.