H.V. Patterson

Available to Read Online

• In SpecPoVerse 1.3
  • “Bird Beak Warning” and “There is No Safe Haven from Human Desire”
• In Haven Speculative Magazine:
  • “Cryptid Sister“
  • “Ourasphaira giraldae Awakens“
• In Small Wonders Magazine:
  • “The Stars Are Gone”
  • “Seducing the Supervillain“
• In Eye to the Telescope:
  • “Clusters of crocus” in ETTT 56: Plants
  • “You can defang the dragon, but it’s a dragon still” in ETTT 52: Dragons
• Detritivores in All Existing Magazine (first published in Diet Milk Magazine)
• “Lady Macbeth Will Not Die Today” in Mouthfeel Fiction 2
• “The Kraken” in Divinations Magazine 3: Siren
• “Arthrobotrys oligospora anthropophagous” and “Take No Pictures; Leave No Footprints” in The Ghost in the Academy from Strange Quark Press
• “Oarfish Remix” and “Farewell, My Oklahoma Octopus” in Sirens Call eZine Summer 2023
• [I swallow] in Otoroshi Journal 3.1 (reprinted in The 2024 Dwarf Stars Anthology)

Anthologies and Print Publications

• In What We Call Home: A Homemaking Anthology ed. Jes McCutchen
  • “HomeUnmaker”, “Housewife Haiku”, “Saints Who Never Were: Our Lady of Homemaking”, “Crimson Colored”, “To Kanae Minato: Home Economics Teacher, Homemaker, and ‘the queen of iyamisu’”
• In Angry Gable Press:
  • “The Heat Death of Our Universe”, “Shark’s Eye View”, “Unanswered Prayer”, “After the Funeral”, and “Resurrection Plant” in Katabatic Circus Vol. 2
  • “Saints Who Never Were: Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger”, “The River Witnesses”, and “Morels Remember the Nuclear Apocalypse” in Extrasensory Overload: an anthology of speculative excess
  • “God is Now the Machine” and “Whatever Walked There Walked Alone” in Katabatic Circus Vol. 1
• In Star*Line:
  • “Ancient Forest Dreams” in Starline 48.4
  • “Death Will Not Free You from Labor” in Star*Line 47.2
  • “Life and Death on TerraX” in Star*Line 48.1
• “My Husband’s House” in Under Her Eye from Black Spot Books
• “Mother; Microbes” in Monstroddities from Sliced Up Press
  • reprinted in The Brave New Weird, Vol. 1 from Tenebrous Press
• “In Hungry Times” and “The Boy Who Knew No Fear” in Scifaikuest August 2024
  • reprinted in The 2025 Dwarf Stars Anthology

Short Plays

• “Cotard’s Syndrome”, Heller Theatre, 2025 dir. Melissa Johnson
• “Cornucopia”, Heller Theatre, 2024 dir. Andrew Smith
• “The Patchwork Girl”, Heller Theatre, 2024 dir. Everett LeViness
• “Let’s Kill Dad (Again)”, Heller Theatre, 2024 dir. Nichole Finch
• “I Only Eat the Dying”, Heller Theatre, 2023 dir. Jen Thomas
• “Fiona Fawn’s Post-Apocalyptic Radio Show”, Heller Theatre, 2023 dir. Andrew Smith