Writing
The Village You Did Not Make
220 words inspired by the medieval Italian village of Casperia, where we attended a writing retreat. The week was magical – the village, our hosts, the other writers – everything. If there’s magic in the story, it’s decanted from all the glories that abounded there. Published at The Hoolet’s Nook.
Stone-mothers
I guess this one’s about benign repression, or some similarly horrid garbage-sauce controlling business in that general halo. Basically, there’s this dragon who’s under human control for seriously historical reasons unrelated to her, and now certain humans decide they want to control her offspring. Mildly salient, though I wrote the first draft of this ten […]
Black with Ash, Red with Grinding
Lodged in Molotov Cocktail’s Killer Flash 2024 mega-issue, this one’s about the dark stuff different groups of people do to the other. I was thinking about colonialism, oppression, evangelism, and appropriation, but the great thing about darkness is, that shit’s everywhere. You can’t cover it all in under a thousand words.
Dreams of Me
This bleaklicious flash appeared in Horror Tree‘s weekly online publication, Trembling with Fear. If you like creepy doll ghosts and don’t mind the horror of how they got that way or what they might do, you might enjoy this one.
Separate Worlds
Check out PULP Literature Issue 41, Winter 2024, which includes “Separate Worlds”, my skippy fun flash about phones, tones, bones, and a little global meltdown. It’s just one possible answer to the age-old question for whom that bell tolls. I hope its truthy darkness resonates in you.
A Break from the Sky
This flash won first place in Backchannels Journal‘s 2022 fiction contest. The story mixes an airport with a cabin, adds a splash of nostalgia, and garnishes it with a shitty marriage. Give it a try, maybe it’s your kind of cocktail.
On Snowflake-veined Wings
A shortish, darkish tale about the intermingling horrors of corporate America, allergies, and social media. First published in Bourbon Penn #28 in ’22, and podcast in June ’24 at Podcastle.