Short Stories
- “Boundless.” Uncanny Magazine, March 2022. A story about the limitless potential of love. And dogs.
Anna blazed through the night sky, a comet. The evenstar. The voyager, sailing forth to seek and find. Anna had always been an explorer, down to her bones. Terumi loved that about her.
Read it here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/boundless/
- “A Bridge Between.” Baffling Magazine, October 2021. A story about letting go.
You’ve been dead for three years. You were married to Takeshi and Irina, and my console chimes now with the notification that they’re here to see you.
Read it here: https://www.bafflingmag.com/issue-five/a-bridge-between-by-miyuki-jane-pinckard
- “A House Full of Voices is Never Empty.” Uncanny Magazine, Jan 5, 2021. A story about family and finding home.
Do you remember the war? No, of course not. You were too small, a solemn-eyed toddler in Má’s arms. You were born in the year of the rat, a lucky, ambitious year. I was two years older, year of the dog, loyal to the end. You were little souris, little Em, and I was your Chi. I always knew I needed to take care of you.
Read it here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-house-full-of-voices-is-never-empty/
Caroline M. Yoachim interviews me about it here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/interview-miyuki-jane-pinckard/
- “How to Defeat Gravity and Achieve Escape Velocity.” Julia Rios’s Patreon. Feb 5, 2021. A story about pirates and heists and a crush on a space marine.
Read it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-defeat-by-47170803
- “A Leaf as It Falls.” If There’s Anyone Left, Vol 1. Nov 23, 2020. A flash story about reckoning with loss and communication.
Available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NTSMGBB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
- “An Egg Before It Is Broken.” Strange Horizons, Nov 9, 2020. A flash piece about love and a robot and an egg.
Akari moved to the Island two years ago and built her one-bedroom house on the edge of a lake. She lives with Ren, a robot.
Read it here: http://strangehorizons.com/issue/9-november-2020/
Listen to it on Apple Podcasts.
- “Mr. Buttons.” Flash Fiction Online, Oct 2019. A flash horror story about a stuffed animal and home.
“Taylor, did you get your toys packed?”
Mom was coming up the stairs. Taylor carefully fitted the last pack of Legos into the moving box. Next to him sat another box labeled “DONATE.” He avoided looking inside that one.
Read it here: http://flashfictiononline.com/main/article/mr-buttons/