My Published Fiction and Poetry

Last updated on 15 July 2023

This is a list of my published fiction and poetry, where possible with links to the published and archived versions.

A list of my academic publications can be found here.

S. Wenmackers, “How my wife got brain-hacked (again),” in AcademFic, forthcoming.

[Abstract]
It all started when I bought an electric toothbrush for my wife’s seventieth birthday. (Speculative fiction.)

S. Wenmackers, “Something Fishy,” AcademFic, vol. 4, p. 1–4, 14 July 2023.

[Abstract]
A professor of statistics discovers a dark secret about a novel lottery system. (Speculative fiction: science fiction.)
S. Wenmackers, “The Youngest,” Danse Macabre, 152, 3 July 2023.

[Abstract]
Teaching the history of ideas concerning predestination and chance inspired me to write a short story about what it's like to be one of the Fates. After all, we can blame fate, but who decides their lot, and who do they curse? (Speculative fiction: dark fantasy.)
S. Wenmackers, “Ballad of Menstruation & Crime,” The Five-Two, 31 July 2023.
[Abstract]
Poem inspired by Katharina Dalton’s 1961 article “Menstruation and Crime” in the British Medical Journal.
S. Wenmackers, “Lunar Almanac,” Sylvia Magazine, 19 February 2023.
[Abstract]
Poem.

S. Wenmackers, “Path Correction,” Nature Futures, 13 October 2021.

[Abstract]
In the midst of chaos. (Speculative fiction: science fiction.)