Short Stories & Flash Fiction

My Grandfather’s Bow (upcoming)

A teenage boy steals his late grandfather’s hunting bow only for it to possess him and attack those who have wronged his family.

This story will appear in the anthology Once Upon a Moonless Night: Tales of Betrayal, Revenge, and Redemption to be published by The Brothers Uber in 2025. Exact date TBD.

 

 

The Songstress

A mysterious woman arrives in a small town, singing a supernatural song of death and destruction that plunges the entire area into eternal night.

This narrative poem/flash piece appeared on MetaStellar, edited by Fallon Clark and Sophie Gorjance, for National Poetry Day 2024.

  • You can read the poem online for free here.

A print edition of this poem will appear in MetaStellar’s Year Four Anthology to be released June 2025.

 

 

Image created by Anais Aguilera using Firefly

 

The Wager

After a supernatural entity kidnaps their unborn child from the womb, a young New Orleans couple seeks help from a Choctaw conjuror to get him back. But defeating an evil this strong will take more than spiritual power; it will take wits.

This story appeared in the anthology Seers and Sibyls, edited by MJ Pankey and published by Brigids Gate Press.

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This story was reprinted in MetaStellar on January 24, 2025.

  • You can read it online for free here.

 

Cover art by Elizabeth Leggett

 

 

 

Image courtesy of E. S. Foster via Adobe Firefly

 

We Told You of the One Who Lives in the Mound (upcoming)

A young woman’s childhood mistakes come back to haunt her when a vengeful letter-writer calls her back to the mysterious small town she fled twenty years before.

This story will be podcast by PseudoPod in 2025. Exact date TBD.

 

 

 

 

 

What Mel Knows

A lab accident leaves a physicist’s conscious mind jumping further and further into the future while her body remains in the present. But what happens when her mind reaches a future without her in it?

This story appeared in the October 2023 issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly, edited by Charles Tyra.

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  • You can also read the story online for free here.

A modified audio version of this story is featured on Creepy Podcast‘s Patreon.

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Cover art by François Coutu

 

 

 

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