Very loosely based on the Cherokee story about the origins of tobacco, but focusing on a rather different sort of medicine, this short story is about the transformative power of courageous love and acceptance—not just for the individual, but for our communities as well. It was published in 2016 in the collection Love Beyond Body, Space & Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology (Bedside Press, edited by Hope Nicholson); a graphic version of the story, illustrated by the amazing Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva/Scots-Gaelic) and also edited by the indefatigable Hope Nicholson, was published in Moonshot, Volume 2: The Indigenous Comics Collection, from AH Comics in 2017. It received the 2018 Prism Award (Small to Midsize Press category) from Prism Comics and the Cartoon Arts Museum at ComicCon 2018. See the BOOKSTORE for purchasing details.

A queer Indigenous reimagining of the origins of the Scarecrow of Oz—with a decidedly dark twist—this tale debuted in 2017 in Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, edited by Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder, David Gaertner, and Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill).