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      • Forthcoming stories

        In the Labyrinth

        Dan had worked in the old mill for decades, so he knew its labyrinthine layout, its moods, and its anger. He’d never felt threatened there—until the Hallowe’en night when some idiot came to work in a toga and brought out its monster.

        Forthcoming on the Night's End podcast, season 4

        Available stories

        The Lighthouse Used to Have Keepers

        Welcome to your evening meditation. Published on PseudoPod

        Distortion

        In emptying her late grandmother's home, Nora must deal with a trapped bird, 25 lb. bags of table salt, and a generational legacy of abuse. A winner in the R.V. Williams Short Fiction contest. Published in Occam's Razor issue 39

        Calm Waters

        An epistolary tale of cosmic horror, about that winter Mrs. Croft passed by herself in Deal. Published in Tales of Sley House 2021, from Sley House Publishing

        Dead Man's Curve

        "You ride when your quads and IT bands scream, and you ride when your blood sings sweetly through you, breaths and pedal strokes aligning perfectly. You eat lunchmeat standing up in the shower and you dream of the road." Published in 34 Orchard, Issue 4

        We Named You After Her

        A Southern Gothic story about coming home and family responsibilities. Published in the In Somnio anthology from Tenebrous Press

        Red in Stile and Rail

        Kind of an HGTV listicle, but horror. Published in Stories We Tell After Midnight 3 from Crone Girls Press

        Ringing the Bell

        "When things went wrong, it happened fast." Published in the It Calls From the Doors anthology from Eerie River Publishing

        Inheritance

        A quiet little tale of living by the sea and the monsters both above and below the water. Published on The Night's End podcast

        In Season

        Eating seasonally can change lives. Published in Tales from the Moonlit Path

        Afterimage

        "The road unrolled before her like a perforated ribbon, winding amongst the night-dark trees. Shapes loomed out of the gloom, bone white and twisted strange, and she told herself that they were wood, nothing more, nothing more." Published in Blood Tree Literature, issue 05 (Threads)

        Reunion

        "The bass line throbbed through the dim air. People shrieked with laughter and too many well drinks, and Claire knew she never should have come to the reunion." Published in Coffin Bell, Volume #1 Issue #4

        By the Book

        Cosmic horror in Antarctica circa 1918. Published in the City in the Ice anthology by Hiraeth Publishing (formerly Alban Lake)

        Symbiote

        "They were going to save the species. That was the plan." Published in Polar Borealis, Issue #6

        Zero Days Since Last Accident

        Cosmic horror space opera. It's part of a balanced breakfast. Published in Broadswords and Blasters, Issue #3

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