Julie C. Day

Short Fiction

“Forty Seconds to Looking Glass Road”
The Sunday Morning Transport
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“Whole Bodies Are Never Left Behind”
Black Static
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“Cornish Stone”
Arcana 2021
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“We Girls”
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“Do Not Fragment”
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“The Night Fishers”
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“Shattered”
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“The Hierophant”
Arcana 2020
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“Speculative Execution”
The Way of the Laser: Future Crime Stories
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“Flyover Country”
Weird Dream Society: An Anthology of the Possible & Unsubstantiated in Support of RAICES
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“After the Apocalypse There Will Be Memory Poems”
Vol.1 Brooklyn
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“Flyover Country”
Interzone
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“Flight Aids Minus the Wings and Fuselage”
Necessary Fiction
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“Seven Falls Away”
Linea
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“Bluebeard’s Surrender”
Gorgon: Stories of Emergence
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“Stone Memories”
Jellyfish Review
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“Raising Babies”
Tales to Terrify
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“City Magic”
The Cincinnati Review
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“A Pinhole of Light”
The Dark Issue 42
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“Signal & Stone”
Uncommon Miracles
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“Level Up”
Uncommon Miracles
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“Mourning Food: Recipes Included”
Uncommon Miracles
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“I Want to Be Here”
Uncommon Miracles
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“Raising Babies”
Uncommon Miracles
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“Raven Hair”
Uncommon Miracles
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“A Pinhole of Light”
Uncommon Miracles
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“Finding Your Way to the Coast”
Uncommon Miracles
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“The Re’em Song”
Uncommon Miracles
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“Pretty Little Boxes”
Uncommon Miracles
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“The Thirteen Tuesdays of Saint Anthony”
Uncommon Miracles
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“The Woman in the Woods”
Uncommon Miracles
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“Idle Hands”
Uncommon Miracles
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“One Thousand Paper Cranes”
Uncommon Miracles
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“Everyone Gets a Happy Ending”
Uncommon Miracles
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“Holes in Heaven”
Uncommon Miracles
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“The Faces Between Us”
Uncommon Miracles
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“Florida Miracles”
Uncommon Miracles
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“A Pinhole of Light”
Ténèbres 2018
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“Schrödinger’s”
Interzone 274
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“The Rocket Farmer”
Podcastle
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“Re-stitched”
Split Lip Magazine January 2018
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“The Rocket Farmer”
Interzone 271
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“Raven Hair”
Cream City Review 41.1
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“Idle Hands”
New Haven Review Issue 019
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“One Thousand Paper Cranes”
Kaleidotrope Winter 2017
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“Everyone Gets a Happy Ending”
Interzone 268
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“Holes in Heaven”
Eunoia Review
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“The Re’em Song”
Pantheon Magazine
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“A Pinhole of Light”
Black Static 54
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“The Thirteen Tuesdays of Saint Anthony”
FWA 1
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“Holes in Heaven”
Isthmus No.4
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“Florida Miracles”
Interzone 261
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“The Faces Between Us”
Podcastle 386
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“The Thirteen Tuesdays of Saint Anthony”
Farrago's Wainscot
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“Faerie Medicine”
Gaia: Shadow & Breath Vol. 2
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“The Re’em Song”
Interzone 258
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“Raising Babies”
Crack the Spine
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“Pretty Little Boxes”
XIII : Stories of Transformation
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“Faerie Medicine”
Flapperhouse--Year One
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“The Church of Forgotten Gods”
A cappella Zoo Issue 14
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“Faerie Medicine”
Lunar Station Quarterly 020
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“Ghost Bubbles”
Bartleby Snopes
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“The Faces Between Us”
Interzone 254
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“Faerie Medicine”
Flapperhouse #2
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“Drinking Grandma’s Tea”
Bartleby Snopes
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“Dried Skins Unshed”
Stupifying Stories
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“Unmaking”
Outpouring: Typhoon Yolanda Relief
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“Unmaking”
Weave Magazine Issue 9
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“The Death of Love Project”
Swamp Biscuits & Tea Issue 4
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“Finding Your Way to the Coast”
BESTIARY: the best of the inaugural demi-decade of A cappella Zoo
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“Paradigm Shift”
Electric Velocipede 26
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“China Island”
The Colored Lens
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“Finding Your Way to the Coast”
A cappella Zoo Issue 9
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Recent & Upcoming Publications

“Forty Seconds to Looking Glass Road” The Sunday Morning Transport, April 14, 2024. More Info.

“Whole Bodies Are Never Left Behind” Black Static 82/83. July, 2023. More Info.

Other Featured Short Fiction

I’ve published over forty short stories. Below are a few of my personal favorites you can find online.
Feel free to glance over my complete bibliography here.

Goodbye, Kansas

Some memories are like scars—
A knife-sharp Mobius strip in the brain
Peter and his Raiders of the Lost Sharks t-shirt
That mixture of citrus and musky end-of-day sweat
“It’s a dishwasher lemon-meringue pie, not a disaster” 
Peter had laughed 

“After the Apocalypse There Will Be Memory Poems”
Vol 1. Brooklyn (2020)

How many stitches do human lips require to hold the soul inside? Alicia tries to help her sister discover the truth.
“Re-stitched”
Split Lip Magazine (2018)
Fiction of the Week at Longform Fiction
Ellen Datlow’s full recommended list for 2019 (from Best Horror of the Year volume Eleven) 

A secret family history, a unique farm, and a daughter who can’t find her place on this particular world.
“The Rocket Farmer”
Interzone 271 (2017)
Podcastle ( 2018 Reprint)


Elijah was the younger brother, and Callie was the older sister who sent handwritten notes to the dead. 
“One Thousand Paper Cranes”
Kaleidotrope (2017)

Two brothers compete to create the first portal to the stars.
“Holes in Heaven”
Isthmus No.4 (2016)
Eunoia Review (2016 reprint)
5-star rating in the The Review Review