Stories
“Early Adopter”
in Welcome to Your Body: Lessons in Evisceration from Salt Heart Press
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Coming May 28, 2024
“Luthier’s Muse”
In Mine by Creature Publishing
Eugenia is Saverio’s muse. His little bird, who he keeps locked away in his violin shop. Now, he needs her help to build the most beautiful violin he’s ever made.
“Company 33”
In War by Black Hare Press
Guarding the Berlin Wall is a prestigious assignment, only given to those who can be trusted. Max does his job dutifully until he is forced to confront the hard truth of what it takes to keep the DDR going. What will Max do when it all comes crashing down?
“Restorative Yoga for the Newly Unboned”
At Space Squid
On assignment for the Herald, Julie reports on the grand opening of The Wave, a new yoga studio in Mad River for those who have been affected by the recent unbonings. If you or someone you love has been unboned, you should check out Sawyer Metz’s methods!
Expired from the ephemeral Space Squid
“Lady Widow”
from Collage Macabre, a Future Dead Collective project
Lady Elizabeth Bathory was misunderstood. Though isolated, trapped in her castle by political rivals of her late husband, she figures out a way to put on a feast. Those tales of hundreds of dead maidens? Myth. Calling her a vampire? Slander. She does have a use for blood though.
“Hand That Feeds”
in Eerie River’s Old Ways folk horror series
Walt is used to a quiet, lonely life. His kids are grown, his wife is gone. One night, a little boy appears on Walt’s stoop, and he begins to take the boy under his wing. The boy, on the other hand, has other plans.
“Falling”
Accepted
“Special Delivery”
In Amazing Offer! from Brigid’s Gate
The town of Chesterfield has a problem. Babies—origin unknown—are being left in people’s homes, plopped down in bedrooms and bathrooms. Overworked Annalee, the town’s social worker, has to figure out how to take care of them all, especially when they begin to develop at an impossible pace.
“Île aux Forbans”
In Beach Bodies by DarkLit Press
Four new friends in an island paradise decide to go exploring on a forbidden island rumored to be the hideout of the long-ago pirates who buried their dead in a nearby cemetery. Have they found Libertalia, or something worse?
“Shoney’s Revenge”
In
It Calls From the Sea by Eerie River
Alicia and Ben finds themselves unmoored in their mid-20s and decide to make a radical change. Unfortunately for them, the seas quickly turn hostile.
“Charming”
In Dark Hearts by Ghost Orchid Press
Charming is supposed to be a show about one Mr. Charming figuring out which of the contestants will win his heart and be his ever after. Once the new season begins airing, though, things take a much darker turn.
In progress
Julie is working on a novel, Tall Pines Corpse Cart. Betta is forced to “marry West” to escape a bad reputation at home in Pennsylvania after losing her fiance in the Civil War. But when she arrives in Illinois, something seems to want her to go back.
Robinson Farm is a themed collection of haunted house stories—one of which can be read in the Read a Story tab!—following the patriarch and matriarch of the Robinson family, who in death are not keen on visitors.
She’s also working to place several other short stories, many of them with historical settings spanning from the tenth century.