Stories forthcoming in Flash Fiction Online, The Future Fire, and Tabi's Flash Tuesdays.
Teacakes for Foxes
"I dig the tip of my knife into the moon’s round edge and shuck it out of the night sky." Broken Antler Magazine (BAM Quarterly) July 2024; Horror 💀 |
Date Night
"Autumn Kiss, they call this lipstick. It glides on like heavy cream, a darkest red shimmering with hints of orange." Crow & Cross Keys June 2024; Horror 💀 |
Learning to Drown
"The waves thunder and foam on the shore. Under a purple sky, the moon’s white as a new tooth." FlashFlood June 2024; Literary/Speculative ✨ |
Seed Hunters
"They say some people can hear the forest singing when they get close. But they’re wrong. By the time they hear it, they’ve already crossed the boundaries, whatever the geo-markers say." MetaStellar May 2024; Horror 💀 |
The Girl in the Sea
"Lina woke in the deep of night when the stars called. The attic window was far enough away from her bed to look like a painting of the night sky hung on the sloped ceiling." DarkWinter Literary Mag May 2024; Dark Fantasy 🦇 |
Gold Rush
"They’re coming." Programmed Hearts - Shacklebound Books anthology Apr 2024; Science Fiction 🤖 |
Xeroseres: A Lesson
"You learn all about Puccinia in school, how rust fungi are pathogens only suited to their chosen hosts." Waterwheel Review Apr 2024; Literary/Speculative ✨ |
Mixtapes for Mermaids
"This is the song that plays when you first see them and your heart is jackhammering a thousand beats per second." Divinations Magazine - Issue 3 Apr 2024; Literary 🍵 |
Temptation
"The night is indigo pitch, shimmering with stars." Drabbledark III - Shacklebound Books anthology Apr 2024; Dark Fantasy 🦇 |
Waking the Year
"In the pyre-light of the old year, I stand watch." Folklore Review - Issue 1 Mar 2024; Literary 🍵 |
Where the Flowers Bloom so Fair
"The meadow brims with wild roses and honeysuckle." Apex Magazine - Issue 143 Mar 2024; Dark Fantasy 🦇 |
By A Dark Moon
"Don’t be friends with a witch, that’s what they say. They call old Miss Winnow a witch, but she’s not like that." Cease, Cows Feb 2024; Dark Fantasy 🦇 |
Nightfall
"Abandoned for years, the red farmhouse became a landmark in my childhood, glimpsed from the school bus." 7th-Circle Pyrite - Issue 2 Jan 2024; Literary 🍵 |
A Holiday Gift
"I did not place an order, I think my account may have been hacked." Litmora Magazine - Issue 2 Jan 2024; Dark Fantasy 🦇 |
2023
Dream Girl
"I wonder why my clone can sing. I've never been able to hold a single note." Flash Frontier - Issue MANU | BIRD Dec 2023; Literary/Speculative ✨ |
A Turn of the Coronet
"Inside the glass labyrinth of the conservatory, even the shadows were burning. The heat wave this year was stretching into autumn, with no signs of receding." Hexagon MYRIAD Zine - DUEL Dec 2023; Speculative ✨ |
For Sale By Owner
"The three-story house watches from under its pitch slate roof. It stands in a hollow east of town, pinned at the end of a stone path with a bog meadow beyond." Pyre Magazine - Vol 2, Issue 01 Nov 2023; Horror 💀 |
Absentee Landlord
"With sharp bolts of pain fracturing her skull, Hazel listened to the night sounds of the field. The myriad chirping of crickets magnified the darkness and made the whispering columns of ripening barley seem endless." Winner of Hedge Apple Magazine’s Penny Dreadfuls Contest Oct 2023; Dark Fantasy 🦇 |
I Thought I Closed That Door
"One day, you will return. This is why I bought the last house we rented, a sprawling mansion in the ruins of an English garden." Hearth & Coffin - Vol. 3, Issue 3 Sep 2023; Dark Fantasy 🦇 |
On Night's Shore
"The roofless dark is filled with iridescence, luminous swirls and spires, whole cities of light woven into the sky." The Fantastic Other - Issue 07 Aug 2023; Speculative ✨ |
Double Dare You
"In the fire’s flickering glow, the bones in Sasha’s face stand out like she’s a figurehead on a ship." Tales From The Moonlit Path - Sinister Summer Camp Challenge Runner-Up Aug 2023; Horror 💀 |
2017
The Death at Knightshayes Court
"Cornelius Blackmore could not decide whether Emmeline Lee was very clever or very stupid. She was one of those elusive creatures that history would never agree on, like Helen of Troy or Mary, Queen of Scots." Mystery Weekly Magazine 2017; Cozy Mystery 🧭 |
The Dancing Corpse
"Frances Westcott had buried the past five fathoms deep, but she could never be rid of the corpse." Betty Fedora - Issue 4 2017; Cozy Mystery 🧭 |