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How Red Your Heart​
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"I always knew one day I’d lose you. We could choose a life rural or urban and it wouldn’t matter because fairytales linger in your blood like flecks of microplastic."
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FlashFlood

June 2025; Literary ✨
Artwork by Sabela Argibay - a woman with pale blue hair sitting on a river bank, nearly touching a half-horse, half-water creature that looks up at her from under the water.
How to Catch a Windwater Horse​
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"Before I find you, deep in summer’s honeyed heart, they tell me not to go looking. Warn me not to wander the bog’s edge under jewel-sharp stars."
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Firewords Campfire

March 2025; Fantasy 🦇

Custom artwork by
Sabela Argibay​ commissioned for the story
Bright yellow cover of Flash Fiction Online issue 137, with a picture of a galaxy where the planets seem to have eyes.
The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club​
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"Summoning an Eldritch horror is all about boundaries. This is no minor pantheon of darkness–demons, ghouls and small gods, hooved and hungry."
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Flash Fiction Online

February 2025; Horror 💀

 Mood board

Musical inspiration 🎵
A backdrop of an Arthur Rackham gnarled tree with the words
A Tower is a Lonely Place​
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"She stares out the tower window, her heart aching. She dreams of running with hares and foxes through the fields, drinking in the bramble-rich scent."
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Corvid Queen

November 2024; Fantasy 🦇

Mood board

Cover of The Future Fire 2024.61, artwork of lungs wrapped in a flower parasite by Sebastian Timpe.
Deep Sea Baby​
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"The sea is glassy and lustrous with moonlight when Johanna arrives. The vacation town of Fairhaven’s only hotel crouches on the shore, bold lines blurring to ghostlike in the dark."
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The Future Fire
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October 2024; Horror 💀
Pink cover of Wild Hunt Magazine, Issue Three, Return. Icons of an eye crying, a rat, a space ship, a heart, a ouija planchette, a maze.
The Memory of Water​
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"They tell me that I drowned during the camping trip. I don’t remember exactly."

Wild Hunt Magazine
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October 2024; Literary ✨
Beneath the Depths cover by Haunted Words Press with a picture of an octopus in a jar.
Beneath the Ebbing Tide, We Sing​
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"The town has a hundred names for what haunts the shore."

Haunted Words Press
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September 2024; Dark Fantasy 🦇
Cover of Flash Fiction Online, grey, with a picture of a Greek-inspired status looking up at a snake.
This Rapturous Blooming​
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"When I am done, the entire planet will sing the name Dr. Fiona Evanston. Biological warfare has nearly destroyed us, but my work shall carry us into a new age."

Flash Fiction Online 
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August 2024; Science Fiction 🍄
Cover of Broken Antler Magazine issue 04, a black/white photo of a highway amidst a forest but turned upside down.
Teacakes for Foxes​
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"I dig the tip of my knife into the moon’s round edge and shuck it out of the night sky."
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Broken Antler Magazine (BAM Quarterly) - Issue 04 

Shortlisted for the Tenebrous Press 'Brave New Weird' anthology

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July 2024; Horror 💀
Custom art - muted color outline of a skull above
A Goth Girl Wandering Exclusive - Delving the Ancient Mysteries of Gallowych​
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"Hello my dark devotees, are you ready for the juicy details about the city hidden under London?"
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Tabi's Flash Tuesdays
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July 2024; Horror 💀
Custom art from Crow & Cross Keys, black/white photo of a floral necklace,
Date Night​
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"Autumn Kiss, they call this lipstick. It glides on like heavy cream, a darkest red shimmering with hints of orange."
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Crow & Cross Keys
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June 2024; Horror 💀
Custom art of a blue and green sky with clouds,
Learning to Drown​
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"The waves thunder and foam on the shore. Under a purple sky, the moon’s white as a new tooth."

FlashFlood
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June 2024; Literary ✨
Custom art - a darkish forest with foreboding trees,
Seed Hunters​
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"They say some people can hear the forest singing when they get close. But they’re wrong."

MetaStellar
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May 2024; Horror 💀
Custom art - vintage pale green-blue painting of a mermaid,
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."

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DarkWinter Literary Mag
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May 2024; Dark Fantasy 🦇
Cover of Programmed Hearts anthology, a big robot on a bridge holding hands with a smaller human. Anthology of robots finding feeling.
Gold Rush​

"They’re coming."

Programmed Hearts - Shacklebound Books anthology
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April 2024; Science Fiction 🤖
A triptych of a green youtube video of Marika Hackman,
Xeroseres: A Lesson​

"You learn all about Puccinia in school, how rust fungi are pathogens only suited to their chosen hosts."

Waterwheel Review
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April 2024; Literary ✨
Cover of Divinations Magazine issue Siren, a pink and blue faded sea creature on a black background.
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
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April 2024; Literary ✨
Cover of Drabbledark III, volume of dark drabbles, a dark grey horse with red eyes and a deathly looking knight.
Temptation​

"The night is indigo pitch, shimmering with stars."

Drabbledark III - Shacklebound Books anthology
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April 2024; Dark Fantasy 🦇
Cover of Folklore Review issue 1, vintage style painting of haires around a fire in a dark whimsical night.
​Waking the Year​

"In the pyre-light of the old year, I stand watch."

​Folklore Review - Issue 1
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March 2024; Literary ✨
Cover of Apex Magazine issue 143, a greenish woman weeping dark tears that have roots, a green fronds sprouting from her shoulders.
Where the Flowers Bloom so Fair​

"The meadow brims with wild roses and honeysuckle."

Apex Magazine - Issue 143 (a winner of the micro fiction contest)
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March 2024; Dark Fantasy 🦇
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​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
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February 2024; Dark Fantasy 🦇
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​Nightfall​

"Abandoned for years, the red farmhouse became a landmark in my childhood, glimpsed from the school bus."

​7th-Circle Pyrite - Issue 2
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January 2024; Literary ✨
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​A Holiday Gift​

"I did not place an order, I think my account may have been hacked."


​Litmora Magazine - Issue 2
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January 2024; Dark Fantasy 🦇
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Dream Girl

"I wonder why my clone can sing. I've never been able to hold a single note."


Flash Frontier - Issue MANU | BIRD
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December 2023; Literary ✨
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A Turn of the Coronet

"Inside the glass labyrinth of the conservatory, even the shadows were burning.
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Hexagon MYRIAD Zine - DUEL
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December 2023; Speculative ✨
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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
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November 2023; Horror 💀
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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, 2o23
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October 2023; Dark Fantasy 🦇
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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

Sept
ember 2023; Dark Fantasy 🦇
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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

August 2023; 
Speculative ✨
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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 

August 2023; Horror
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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 🫖
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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 🫖
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