Short Stories
Blood in the Thread (Tor.Com, April 2021)
Edited by Ruoxi Chen
Nothing tears two women apart like the men who want and take indiscriminately. In this retelling of “The Crane Wife”, a makeup artist and her actress lover struggle to stay together as the glitz and glamour of old Hollywood transforms into a cruel and manipulative beast that threatens to pluck them apart.
Content warning: This story contains fictional depictions of domestic violence.
This title is also available as an individual eBook or as part of the digital anthology Some of the Best of Tor.Com 2021. It has also been translated into Japanese by Umiyuri Katsuyama in Subaru.
*2021 Locus Recommended Reading List (Short Stories)
*Banshee Press Best of 2021 Reading List
Monsters Calling Home (What One Wouldn’t Do, Sept. 2021)
Edited by Scott J. Moses
What One Wouldn’t Do for…what? Power? Safety? Love? Revenge? Here’s to the lengths one might go to for everything. With dark fiction from J.A.W. McCarthy, Avra Margariti, Marisca Pichette, Stephanie Ellis, Christina Wilder, Donna Lynch, Katie Young, Scott J. Moses, Angela Sylvaine, tom reed, Cheri Kamei, Shane Douglas Keene, J.V. Gachs, Tim McGregor, Emma E. Murray, Nick Younker, Jennifer Crow, Joanna Koch, Lex Vranick, Laurel Hightower, Eric Raglin, Eric LaRocca, Daniel Barnett, Bob Johnson, Simone le Roux, Hailey Piper, Bryson Richard, Jena Brown, and Christi Nogle.
Available in paperback and eBook.
Cheri Kamei Writes 