Forthcoming
- Kaleidotrope: "Time Between Her Teeth"
- Diabolical Plots: "Hold the Sea Inside"
A Brief Theory of Time Compression:
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Cover art by Jenny Mure
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Want Like Raw Silk
Cosmic Horror Monthly
Issue 37 | July 2023 "Way up on the mountaintop, just before the spruce firs finally surrender to craggy rock and sky, stands a grove of mulberry trees so dense the trunks knot around each other. And in that thicket, tangled among the branches and the sweet fruit, are panes of glass, buckled wood, a rusted bed frame. No one can recall how long it’s been since that lonely house fell—on the account that no one was there to witness it—but there are stories. Oh, there are stories." |
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Follow Darkness Like a Dream
Violent Delights and Midsummer Dreams
Ed. Damon Barret Roe & Cassandra L. Thompson | Quill & Crow Publishing House "See the shadows creep down the mountainside, swallowing the sweet wineleaf and the bittercress, gorging on the rocky outcrops, devouring the young man and woman standing alone. The shadows bring sleep and hateful fantasies." |
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The Word Hoarder
Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things
March 2023 "The English language has five thousand words. A long time ago, before I and the Third Generation were born, there were half a million words in the English language. ... I am a word hoarder, tasked with preserving the words the world has forgotten." |
Cover art by Choong Yoon
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Deserving of Warmth
Bleak Midwinter Vol. II: Solstice Light
Ed. Damon Barret Roe & Cassandra L. Thompson | Quill & Crow Publishing House "Up in the mountains, the cold will lick your bones clean. No matter how heavy your coat or how warm your hearth, a stray wind will creep like a breath over the back of your neck. And each year, when the nights are at their darkest and the snow is at its deepest, when it seems spring may never come, our tales turn to monsters." |
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Everyone's Got a Little Devil in Them
It Was All a Dream: An Anthology of Bad Horror Tropes Done Right
Ed. Brandon Applegate | Hungry Shadow Press "In the winter, the Devil’s cloven hooves bore deep tracks in the crusted-over snow. In the spring, the Devil’s claws slashed gouges into saplings. In the summer, the Devil’s winged silhouette rose from the mist in the cranberry bog. And I’d keep my head down and my mouth shut, so much like a mouse that I could never be mistaken for a devil. Almost never. Except for those gray nights in late October, when the moon hung low and ripe, and the whole world seemed to crackle—those were the most dangerous times. Because those nights, people did more than tell stories about the Devil. They tried to catch it. " |
Cover art by Evangeline Gallagher
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Dance the Sky Bright
Medusa Tales
Issue 2 | July/August 2022 "When the star had descended two days ago, it had pulled the night sky down with it. A veil had been cast over the mountainside—the sun did not rise, the wind did not blow, and anyone who tried to leave through the narrow rocky pass was lost to the shadows. The star would return to its seat in the sky—bringing back the sun and wind and light—only when the townsfolk offered it a young woman for a dance. And the star had chosen Esther as its dance partner." |
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The Future in a Wash Basin
Metaphorosis Magazine
March 2022 Issue "This was the land where her mother and her gran had practiced their craft. This was the land where her own daughters would learn their arts. Even though the town seemed to be growing smaller each day, she couldn’t bear to leave Schull Harbor and the bones of the women who came before her. This land was her inheritance." "The Future in a Wash Basin" also appears in Metaphorosis Books's Reading 5X5 x3: Changes anthology, ed. B. Morris Allen.
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Cover art by Carol Wellart
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Sleeping Giants
Luna Station Quarterly
Issue 49 | March 2022 Originally published in The Gateway Review "Annie Warren spoke in tongues – every time she opened her mouth garbled sound flooded out. The only people on God’s green Earth who knew were her ma and pa. They told her never to speak in front of strangers, and the girl listened." |
Cover art by Caroline Jamhour
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