PUBLICATIONS

FICTION

Short Stories

  • Late-Night Calls (PDF, pg. 17) [Horror/Speculative Fiction]
    A rookie paramedic contemplates quitting as she struggles to grapple with the mounting guilt over all the people she has failed to save.
    Published in 34 Orchard, “Issue 11” (April 2025)

  • The Water Girl (PDF, pg. 70) [Fantasy]
    A myth about water and women. Water girls climb the mountain in the center of the island to collect water from the sacred cloud. It is a treacherous journey from which most do not return. This is the story of one who did. Her name is Nol. Her sister’s name was Mauna.
    Published in Black Fox Literary Magazine, “Issue 28” (March 2025)

  • Eye of the Beholder (PDF, pg. 22) [Sci-Fi/Speculative Fiction]
    In the near-future, ophthalmologist Dr. Harry Post performs extractions on people who, after losing their sight, choose to live in a simulation inside the City Eye Bank; in doing so, they agree to donate the viable parts of their eyes if and when they are needed. One day, Harry decides to sneak in some decor to spruce the bland government building up.
    Published in orangepeel literary magazine, “Issue 8 - the future” (May 2024)

  • The Other Side of the Tree [Fantasy]
    A semi-autobiographical short story about a young girl dealing with bullying and isolation who finds a portal in the woods of her family’s campground.
    Published in Livina Press, “Issue 8” (April 2024)

  • Sell Your Heart [Horror/Black Comedy]
    A short story about the grisly lengths one young man goes to get out from under the burden of student loans. Warning: Not for the faint of heart.
    Published in Mania Magazine, “Issue Three” (March 2024)

  • The Heist at the End of the World [Sci-Fi/Speculative Fiction]
    Two lifelong friends, an ex-con and a tollbooth worker, pull off one last heist: robbing the tollbooths up and down the Florida Turnpike to get enough money to earn passage on the last rocket leaving Earth for the new world – Planet F.
    Published in BarBar Literary Magazine (September 2023)

  • Skip, Hop, Jump [Sci-Fi/Speculative Fiction]
    A short story about a woman with an inoperable brain aneurysm who travels through time to try to find a cure. (Come for the speculative fiction, stay for the Crazy Taxi 2 references.)
    Published in Luna Station Quarterly, “Issue 055” (September 2023)

Flash Fiction

POETRY

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Personal Essay

  • The Mermaid in the Pond [Memoir]
    A creative nonfiction piece recalling the time my childhood friend Jessica and I went looking for the mermaid she told me she had seen in the pond behind her mother’s house.
    Published in Talk Vomit, Spring ‘24 Issue (April 2024)

Articles & Reviews

  • The Tortoise Tries to be The Hare; [Article]
    Or How I Failed to Finish Writing My Book Last Year
    At the end of 2024, I set a goal to finish a “shitty first draft” of my book in 2025. Now, as the first month of 2026 comes to a close, I’m here to announce I failed to meet that goal. Here’s what that meant for me and what I learned about myself in the process.
    Self-published on amandabintz.com (January 2026)

  • Why I’m Not Doing NaNoWriMo After All [Article]
    After my writing partner and I paused work on our fiction podcast, I decided it’d be the perfect year to finally do NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). The challenge? To write 50,000 words of a novel in the 30 days of November. But it’s November 1, and, if you couldn’t tell by the title of this entry, I’m not writing 50,000 words to finish my novel this month. Here's why.
    Self-published on amandabintz.com (November 2024)

  • A Five Star Filled with Morning Pages [Article]
    “Morning pages” is a practice for artists recommended in The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. I have my writing partner to thank for turning me on to The Artist’s Way, which is a self-guided course for artists to reconnect with their creativity while healing their inner artist/child. Morning pages is one of the two main tools recommended in the course. On a rainy Thursday morning, I finished my first morning pages notebook.
    Self-published on amandabintz.com (May 2024)

  • The Women of Miyazaki’s ‘Princess Mononoke’ [Review]
    “Princess Mononoke” was the first movie by legendary storyteller Hayao Miyazaki I ever saw. I watched it as a pre-teen girl on VHS, on a tiny TV with a built-in VCR in my childhood bedroom. After I saw the forest die the first time, I cried for hours—for the Earth, for humans, for the trees and the kodama. I’ve seen it dozens of times in the two decades since. After every viewing I come away with this: What an absolute epic.
    Self-published on amandabintz.com (April 2024)