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Short stories, novelettes & novellas

A collection of all my published short stories.

Some spooky and dark - some sweet and cozy.

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Image by Filip Zrnzević

Horror short stories

Image by Mari Potter

Dirt You Shall Become

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Four horror stories inspired by gardens I love.

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Coming in April 2025!

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Now, and the Hour of Death (2023)

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Five tales of the eerie, tragic & macabre.​

Eldritch, gothic, and paranormal short stories that aim to give you goosebumps or play on your darkest heartstrings, bringing out a bit of gleefulness.

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Drowned Hearts (2023)

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A young girl gambles everything to catch the mermaids who took her mother.

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A folkhorror-esque novelette where the dark of the abyss is only matched by the darkness of the heart.

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Thaw This Broken Heart (2022)

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Two lovers meet under the midwinter moon to reveal an incomprehensible tragedy.

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Quill & Crow Publishing House, The Crow's Quill 2022, issue 17, Midwinter Despair.

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The Sculptor (2022)

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A young girl is separated from her parents on vacation and meets a church sculptor

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Quill & Crow Publishing House, The Crow's Quill 2022, issue 12, Gargoyles.

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Green Hills

Not-so-spooky stories

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The Keeper of Gods (tentative title)

Release TBA - Late 2025.

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A sweet sapphic (F/F) shifter romance with neurodivergent MCs, so much angst, no kissing but hand-holding, and a magical mountain hut.

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The Tale of the Sad Christmas Dragon (2022)

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A cozy holiday adventure about a girl who meets a strange, sad dragon in the forest.

Why is it crying? And what does the Christmas Dragon even do?

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