Matthew F. Amati

Author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, "other"

Short stories, 2015-2025

Short Fiction

Thursday on Mars (The Cafe Irreal, May 2025)

They Who Have Wires for Bones (Exquisite Death, March 2025)

Smildrin with a Cauldron (Dragon Gems Anthology, Summer 2024)

4BR, 2BA, 5Ghosts (Blood Moon Rising, July 2024)

Three Holes in the Saint's Bathroom Window (Oddball Magazine, July 2024)

To Rundle the Parlous Hoon (Weird Lit Magazine, June 2024)

Notes on the Disappearance of the Headless Child (The Cafe Irreal, August 2023)

Said The Moonlit Moth To The Horse Half-Dead (in the Tumbled Tales anthology, June 2023)

About Her Bones So Bleak and Bare (Flash Fiction Online, March 2023)

Please Do Not Poke The Ordinary Man (Fleas On The Dog, February 2023)

The Rude Mechanicals Find a Three-Letter Word for God Space Squid (October 2022)

Where The Wind Blows the Water "Mermaidens" anthology (September 2022)

Vs. The Giant (Daily Science Fiction, August 2022)

The Innovators (The Cafe Irreal, August 2022)

Exam Questions For The Story That Killed Its Readers (The Cafe Irreal, November 2021)

“Infraction” The Cafe Irreal (Winter 2020)

“The Fine Print” Sci Fi Lampoon, October 2020

Planet Earth Just Blew And There’s Nothing I Can Do (Daily Science Fiction, September 2020)

“Rats” Danse Macabre (August 2020)

Apocalypse Rock (Across The Universe anthology of Beatles sci-fi, December 2019)

The Invention of Everything (Dragon Roots, Fall 2019)

Three Tales for the Headless Child (The Fabulist, October 2018)

“Fed” (Jitter Press, October 2018)

Forever Hold Your Timepiece (Dragon Roots, Fall 2018)

Let The Day Be Darkness (Fabula Argentea, July 2018)

“Shuffle Duffle Muzzle Muff” (Daily Science Fiction, April 2018).

“My Parents Went to Vega and All I Got Was This Lousy Robot.” (Antipodean SF, February 2018)

“Defender of the Flesh” (Bewildering Stories, December 2017)

Tale Without Fairies (Syntax & Salt, December 2017)

Our Lady Cinderella of the Dying World. (The Cafe Irreal, November 2017)

“Fresh Meat at the Murderhutch” Featured in the companion book to A Field Guide to Evil.

Afterlife in America” and “Endings” (13 Myna Birds, June 2017.)

Space Pussy! (Nasty: Fetish Fights Back, May 2017

“I Find Them in Bags” and “Come, There Is Ham Here“ (Clockwise Cat #38)

My Bologna Has a First Name (Daily Science Fiction, March 2017)

To Comfort the Headless Child (Flash Fiction Online, March 2017)

In Zarbok’s Kitchen (Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, Feb. 2017) (subscription required).

The Voyage of the Texarkana (Cafe Irreal, Feb 2017)

Sky Widows (Perihelion SF, December 2016)

The Water Tastes Like Centipedes & The World’s About to End (White Knuckle Press, December 2016).

Let Me Squeeze Your Islets of Langerhans (Cafe Irreal, Winter 2016)

Last Day of the Universe (Daily Science Fiction, September 2016)

Plastic Mom and Dad (Darkfuse [subscription required], August 2016.)

The Rude Mechanicals Vs. the Anti-Copernican Platypus (Space Squid, July 2016)

The Persistence of Tim (Sci Phi Journal, March 2016)

To Whup A Universe (Space Squid, December 2015)

The Rude Mechanicals (Space Squid, July 2015)

Face Time (Flash Fiction Online, February 2015)

The Cratch, Thy Keeper (Flash Fiction Online, January 2015)