- “Deus Deceptor,” The NoSleep Podcast S21E04, 2024
- “Bubble Bath,” reprinted in Tangle & Fen (Crone Girls Press) 2024, originally released in The NoSleep Podcast, bonus episode “Suddenly Shocking, Vol. 14,” 2021
- “The Monster Fucker Club,” Apex Magazine, Issue 139, 2023
- “The Gingerbread Witch at the End of the World,” Frightmarish, Issue 5, 2023
- “Highway Hypnosis,” Uncharted, 2022
- “Haustoria,” Grim & Gilded, 2022
- “Revelation 12:4,” nurture, 2021
- “The Haunting of Mile Marker 73,” MoonPark Review, 2020
- “Catoptromancy,” X-R-A-Y, 2019
Eventually I decided that I must have lost my body for good. I have to believe that if I still had a body, whatever spark of a consciousness I had left would be frantically trying to preserve it, to bring me back to it.
But no. I’m incapable of worrying about the future. Another surprisingly painful loss.
“Deus Deceptor,” The NoSleep Podcast S21E04, 2024.
She’s been eating her house again and regrets it. Her head hurts, her gums are inflamed, and her face is numb from what she suspects is a touch of hypoglycemia. She’s too old for so much sugar, especially on an empty stomach.
“The Gingerbread Witch at the End of the World,” Frightmarish, Issue 5, 2023.
Now everyone knows better than to get caught being nice to you. You’re something dangerous, something untouchable, something somehow not the same as you were when you woke up this morning.
“Catoptromancy,” X-R-A-Y, 2019.
I’d never wanted a gun in the house. I’d lectured Rob that we were much more likely to die from gun violence because of it, but I’d never dreamed I’d shoot him myself. Or that he’d beg me to.
“Bubble Bath,” reprinted in Tangle & Fen (Crone Girls Press) 2024, originally released in The NoSleep Podcast, bonus episode “Suddenly Shocking, Vol. 14,” 2021.
You can’t see the wolf yet because you don’t know you’re supposed to be looking for it.
“Highway Hypnosis,” Uncharted, 2022.
The Dragon is complicit as hell in this ridiculous apocalypse, and she resents having to pretend otherwise.
“Revelation 12:4,” nurture, 2021.
Was this another fucked-up part of growing up that no one bothered to warn you about? Did everyone have a monster and just hid it better than we could?
“The Monster Fucker Club,” Apex Magazine, Issue 139, 2023.
Some of the younger people, who had never seen frost, mistook it for snow.
“Haustoria,” Grim & Gilded, 2022.
Haunted, yes, but with caveats. There is no sinister wrought iron gate curling beneath a thick curtain of thorny vines, no grand staircase, no servants’ quarters, no lurid plantation history. And while there are plenty of crows and vultures circling overhead, they’re really only here for the plentiful I-30 road kill.
“The Haunting of Mile Marker 73,” MoonPark Review, 2020.