Every act of resistance is not a work of art, even though, in a certain way, it is. Every work of art is not an act of resistance, and yet, in a certain way, it is.
— Gilles Deleuze
FICTION
Just Published
Thicker, Uncanny Magazine, forthcoming 2025.
They Return, Fantasy Magazine, forthcoming 2025.
Zarghána, Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2024.
An island where women wait and men go out to the sea, where nothing is what it seems, where Zarghána haunts your dreams. Folk horror meets the cosmic.
The Lark Ascending, Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2024.
Domestic helper AI is the only one to remember papa after he’s gone. Love, grief and memory.
- Reprinted in Afterlives 2024: The Year’s Best Death Fiction (ed. by Sheree Renée Thomas, forthcoming 2025)
- Reprinted in The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories: Sixth Annual Collection (ed. by Allan Kaster, forthcoming 2025)
- Reprinted in Think Weirder:The Year’s Best Science Fiction Ideas (ed. by Joe Stech, forthcoming 2025)
This Wooden Heart, PodCastle, April 2024.
A family with a secret that becomes a heavy burden during WWII and the occupation of Greece by Axis forces. A story about he-goat priests, diabolical fig groves, and sibling love.
Top Recommendations
Our Heartstrings Howl the Moon, Strange Horizons, December 2022.
Children refugees of the Greek Civil War become wolves to survive the horrors of war.
“An outstanding piece of historical fiction threaded through with fairytale and subtle magic.”- Maria Haskins
An Incomplete Account of the Case of the Bird-Talker of Yaros, Fireside Magazine, Summer 2020.
A prison on an island is a prison within a prison. But what if your whispers had wings? Set in the dark years of the Greek junta (1967-1974).
- Reprinted in PodCastle 2022.
The Athuran Interpreter’s Flight, Strange Horizons, July 2018.
How do you make an interpreter out of spare parts? Linguistic identity, embodied epistemology, environmental justice. Also, creepy tech.
More science fiction?
Darkness, Our Mother, Clarkesworld Magazine, December 2017.
Minoan space opera-myth. Ariadne’s story retold with additional decadence, dysfunctional families, unconditional sibling love, spaceships, and algebraic topology.
Without Exile, Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2018.
Asylum lawyer and a poetry-loving AI try to grapple with home, memory, trauma, exile.
When We Find Our Voices, Clarkesworld Magazine, December 2018. (novelette)
Post-human bird-people are forced to save humanity from extinction. Contemplating gender, reproduction, duty and intimacy through the eyes of an agender, ace protagonist. Family, friendship, love, oppression and rebellion in a half-ruined world.
More fantasy?
We Head for the Horizon and Return with Bloodshot Eyes, PodCastle, March 2018.
Greek Civil War, queer ladies, chatty entrails.
Featured in B&N’s SFF Short Fiction Roundup
Who Goes Against a Waste of Waters, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, April 2020.
We live in a vast graveyard. Can you hear the giant’s thoughts?
The Silent Flowers of the Magician’s Garden, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, September 2019.
A boy does not want to be a soldier; he wants to heal others. Coming of age in a quiet world struck by the darkness of war. Words, listening, understanding.
Their Eyes the Shape of Orchids, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, August 2022.
A witchy midwife with a secret agenda has to make some difficult choices. Features a skull bracelet, eerie powers that be, and conflicting views on abortion.
Think of Winter, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2017.
Little clairvoyant child lives alone in an abandoned cathedral. Everything goes wrong when the Knight arrives. Language and unlikely friendships in the shadow of colonialism.
Eleanna Castroianni 