Short Stories

Snow-covered cabin at dusk. A window is lit up from inside, and in the foreground are three logs tipped together in a pyramid with a hanging lamp of fire between them.

"Before the Gingerbread Stales"

Burial Day Books, January 2021, Horror

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A woman reaches for the last arrow in her quiver and faces a giant cloudy eye in a forest.

"The Giving Island"

Remastered Words, Audio Anthology, November 2020, Fantasy

"Another Wisconsin Winter"

Menda City Review, Issue 35, February 2020, Literary

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A ghostly lady in a ghostly woodland at night.

"In the Valley of Dolls"

Flame Tree Press, August 2019, Horror

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"Shivers Pond"

Constant Readers, October 2018, Horror

"Timber House"

Disturbed Digest, September 2018, Horror

"Croak Tree"

Every Day Fiction, September 2013, Horror

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"Doctoring Folklore"

Fantastic Horror, The Dead and Not So Dead anthology, April 2012 (revised reprint), Horror

"King Nothing"

NewMyths, Issue 16, September 2011, Fantasy

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"Children of Ash"

Blotter Magazine, February 2011 (Allegory Tri-Annual Magazine honorable mention, Volume 12/39), Fantasy

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"And the Earth Opened Wide"

Menda City Review, Issue 16, March 2010 (listed as a notable story of 2010 by the storySouth Million Writers Award), Literary

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"Gretel and then Hansel"

Frightening Fables and Freaky Fairy Tales anthology 2010 (out of print), Horror

"The L-Factors"

AlienSkin Magazine, December/January 2008/09, Science Fiction

"Metallic Whispers"

StarShipSofa, 2008, forthcoming, forthcoming, forthcoming, Science Fiction

"Coldest Winter Yet"

MicroHorror, November 2008, Horror