Let’s Get You . . . Unsettled

Photo by Nong

 

Cover Art for Luna Station Quarterly

An undressed woman with pink psychedelic skin and blue hair has her eyes closed and looks very pleased

“Not At This Address”

Published in Luna Station Quarterly

Frank’s mail keeps coming to your house, even though he doesn’t live there.

Photo by Heather Gill

Image of white turkeys in a barnyard

“Gift From Santa Claws”

Published in Flash Point SF

The turkeys strutted around their yard for weeks, eating the little bits of birdseed on the ground that the birds dropped.  

 

Photo by Noura Haddad

Image of orange and red trees leaves in fall

Maples Had Grown”

Published in Hawthorne & Ash

The wind prowled the world, restless, until it skulked through a maple grove on a hill and its memory returned.

Cover art for The Quiet Ones Annual Oct 2024
A close up image of a purple face and dark eyes

“All Creatures Here Below”

Published in The Quiet Ones Annual

The day that Maisy stopped believing in God, she began seeing the skeletons.

Woman with very clear skin

Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy

A woman with a very clean almost too perfect face

“Appealing Skin Model”

Published in Wyldblood Press

My skin crawled off me onto the washing room’s tile floor, then skittered up the wall.

Photo by Harshit Suryawanshi

Image of an open book with a magnifying glass on it

“Investigating a Series of Stubbings”

Published in Once Upon a Crocodile

Assaulted with a desk on the fourth floor of the insurance building on 10th street.

 
cows standing in a field

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez

Silhouette of three cows in a field set against an overcast sky

“Unacknowledged Cows”

Published in Body Fluids

We point at a field of cows as we pass and say “Cows,” for as everyone knows, the bovine population has a deal with all travelers. 

All Worlds Wayfarer cover art of boy standing in front of boat

Cover art for All Worlds Wayfarer Issue 13

“Shivers of History”

Published in All Worlds Wayfarer

The secret compartment in the bureau slid open with the self-assuredness of a French word pointing out its silent vowels.

Cover art with an ominous deer and moons

Cover art for Tales of Fear, Superstition and Doom

Silhouette of a deer with antlers around a red moon and a train in the background

“The Call of Dark Water”

Published in Tales of Fear, Superstition and Doom

I swam too deep, my love.

Cover art for Tiny Frights

An abstract image of a cartoon skeleton horse monster against a purple background

“Beware the Beech Tree”

Published in Tiny Frights

Something prehistoric, a vast predatory thing, it poses as a tree with root-like talons, and feathers that pass as leaves.

 

Cover art for Rampage on the Reef Dead Seas Anthology. Image of a pink octopus battling a deep sea diver against a purple and pink background

“Of Water Turning Into Sea”

Published in Rampage on the Reef Anthology

In the heart of landlocked Nebraska, Arline feels drawn to the puddles in cornfields.

City hill

Photo by Yuheng Ouyang

Photo of a hilly city street through trees

“Tally”

Published in Theme of Absence

No one drove up Frankfurt hill.

Andromeda Spaceways cover art of futuristic city

Cover art for Andromeda Spaceways Issue 87

Image of a bright sky with futuristic tall towers and ships

“Arm Warmers For the Elder God, Quantity: 66”

Published in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine

It gets so cold after my calendar date with the stars, after the magnificent, thrilling heat of razing the world with madness.

Cover art for Let’s Get Weird (Vol III)

An eerie image of a silhouette of a skeleton

“The Curse Collector”

Published in Let’s Get Weird (Vol III)

Yima acquired peoples’ broken feet, stuttering hearts, and even little things like their split ends and displayed them on her wall.

 
chainsaw

Photo by Sven Brandsma

Image of a chainsaw laying against a felled tree

“Chainsaw Diary”

Published in Cosmic Horror Monthly

The chainsaws do not stop.

blue sky with clouds

Photo by Ritam Baishya

Image of a blue sky and clouds with the sun shining straight down

“Blaring Blue”

Published in Timber Ghost Press

On cloudless days, the locals know not to look up.

Red Barn

Photo by Frances Gunn

Image of a red barn with a forest in the background, eerie gray sky

“Shaken Loose”

Published in Three-Lobed Burning Eye

Giant shapes lumber past the farmhouse sometimes.

Dirty Hands

Photo by Chris Yang

Image of someone’s hands stained with dirt

“Unearthed”

Published in Gwyllion Magazine

Tae’s brother asks her to help dig a hole in the backyard.