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Stories marked with a single asterisk (*) are free to read online. If they are marked with a double asterisk (**), they are available on Kindle Unlimited.

2023

  • "A House, A Haunting"* - in The Summer Gothic (gothic horror)​
  • "The Sixth Tree"* - in Crow & Cross Keys (fantasy flash fiction)
  • "And The Mountains Melt Like Wax"* - in Devout: An Anthology of Angels, or individually on my itchio page or across major retailers (dark fantasy)
  • "We Suffer in Fire" - in Devout: An Anthology of Angels (horror flash fiction)
  • "The Graves You Dig"* - in issue 1 of Mouthfeel Fiction (horror flash fiction)
  • "What the Sea Provides" - in The Cozy Cosmic, or individually on my itchio page or across major retailers (cosmic horror)
  • "the heart of an angel"* - in Monster Manor's Octoberween (horror poetry)
  • "Your Heart Stops" - in Greater Than His Nature (horror romance flash fiction)
  • "Neighbourhood Watch"* - in issue 28 of The Crow's Quill (epistolary/found fiction horror)
  • "What About the Dog?"* - pay what you want on my itchio page or across major retailers (horror)

2024

  • "Ghosts We Used to Love"* - pay what you want on my itchio page (grief horror)
  • "Metamorphosis"* - in A Coup of Owl's Spring 2024 issue (horror micro fiction)
  • "St. Peter's Gate"** - in Drabbledark III (horror drabble)
  • "The Slow Brain Death of Artificial Intelligence"** - in Programmed Hearts (sci-fi drabble)
  • "One Saturday Morning" - on my itchio page or across major retailers (dark fantasy)
  • "Love Like the Moon" - in Carpe Noctem (horror romance)
  • "From This Day Forward" - in Even Cozier Cosmic (cosmic horror)
  • "Nana's Teeth" - in There's a Haint in That There Holler, a charity anthology (folk horror)
  • "Make Me a Freak Show"* - in The Icarus Writing Collective's Monstrous issue (horror)
  • "Closer to Death"* - in The Circus Collective's Taboo issue (horror erotica flash fiction)
  • "A Handful of Bullets" in Dead Cowpokes Don't Wrangle (weird west horror)​

2025

  • "Home is Where the Butterflies Roam"* - in Disabled Tales (cozy fantasy)
  • "Which Will Break?"** - in Chronos 2 (dark sci-fi drabble)
  • "The Ecstasy of Roman Norris" - in Smitten Land vol. 2 (religious horror; coming soon)
+ more to be announced!
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  • "A House; A Haunting": animal death (imagined), body horror
  • "The Sixth Tree": implied deadnaming
  • "And The Mountains Melt Like Wax": fire (off-page), death (off-page), panic attacks, body horror
  • "We Suffer in Fire": fire, death, murder, religious fanaticism, body horror
  • "The Graves You Dig": death, taphophobia
  • "What the Sea Provides": drowning (off-page), child death (off-page), body horror
  • "the heart of an angel": murder, cannibalism
  • "Your Heart Stops": death, medical trauma
  • "Neighbourhood Watch": stalking
  • "What About the Dog?": child death (off-page), animal death (off-page, not the titular dog), illness
  • "Ghosts We Used to Love": intimate partner abuse (emotional and verbal; past, but described and quoted), suicide of a partner (past, but described and ghost seen), self-harm (past, but scars/injuries seen), depression (both past and present), mental health problems generally, struggles to recover from grief over the loss of a partner
  • "Metamorphosis": depression, implied self-harm, implied death
  • "St. Peter's Gate": religious doubt, implied death
  • "The Slow Brain Death of Artificial Intelligence": implied death, existential crisis
  • "One Saturday Morning": religious trauma, past homophobia, past ableism, mental health struggles, implied death
  • "Love Like the Moon": body horror, being restrained
  • "From This Day Forward": death, animal death (past but body seen), terminal illness (lung cancer, past implied HIV/AIDS), homophobia (past), religious trauma, elder abuse (off-page but discussed), dementia (off-page but discussed)
  • "Nana's Teeth": grief, mourning a family member’s death, mild body horror
  • "Make Me a Freak Show": implied queerphobia (external and internalized), implied ableism (external and internalized), manipulative romantic partner, non-consensual body modification, body horror, raw meat consumption, spiders, infidelity, murder, cannibalism
  • "Closer to Death": death (past), suicidal ideation (implied), sexual content, erotic asphyxiation
  • "A Handful of Bullets": guns, religious abuse/cults, animal death (wild animals and farm animals), body horror, suicidal ideation, murder, death, zombies
  • "Home is Where the Butterflies Roam": N/A
  • "Which Will Break?": anxiety, existentialism
  • "The Ecstasy of Roman Norris": body horror (eyes and mouths, self-harm), bodily fluids, sexual content, dysphoria, pregnancy imagery associated with a trans masculine character, implied death
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