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"The Bittersweet Glimmer" in Flame Tree's Shadows on the Water
Anthology info HERE, otherwise available wherever you buy books!
A reprint of my short story about memory, nostalgia, immigration from Germany, and a siren with dementia.
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"Residence" in Under the Stairs: An Anthology of Homebound Horror
Available for purchase HERE.
A modern wintry gothic inspired by MR James about a crumbling castle behind a strip mall, housing, desperation, and... maybe ghosts? (You be the judge!)
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"Last Halloween" in Nocturne, Issue 3, October 2023
Free to read online HERE.
A Halloween-set, semi-comedic micro about a volcano, the end of the world, and a very specific serial killer.
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"Kelsey and Chelsea Summon a Demon" in Paper Lanterns, Issue 12
Available for purchase online HERE.
Best friends Kelsey and Chelsea head out to the old ruins in the woods to summon a demon. What could possibly go wrong?
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"To Strike a Match" in Polar Borealis Issue #26, August 2023
Free to read online HERE.
An apocalyptic cosmic horror re-telling of The Little Match Girl, with a sapphic love story.
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"The Wreckage of Hestia" in The Darkness Beyond the Stars
Available for purchase with links HERE.
A claustrophobic space horror with gothic vibes set at an abandoned encampment on a far-off planet that may not actually be quite as abandoned as everyone thought.
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"Stainless" in Crimson Bones
Available for purchase HERE.
My contribution to this gothic romance anthology is a 1980s-set Rust Belt gothic that takes place in an unnamed steel town where two people are trapped by circumstance in a moldering Victorian mansion overlooking the dying steel mills, with a truly malevolent haunting in there with them.
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"There Once Was a Sparkling City Upon The Sea" in Les Petites Morts: An Anthology of Dark Fairytales
Available for purchase HERE.
In this erotic horror retelling of a Breton folktale about the sunken city of Ker-Is, Princess Dahut chafes against the bars of her gilded cage, until she makes things change for good… or ill.
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"A Study in Umber" in Collage Macabre: An Exhibition of Art Horror
Anthology is available for purchase HERE.
A bunch of spoiled Victorian gentlemen at a mummy-unwrapping party get their just deserts in this real-history inspired tale.
“A bit of a cozy vibe. . . Before it turns into a pitch-black comedy with a dose of gore” - author C.B. Jones, reviewing on Goodreads -
"The Weight of Emptiness," Dream of Shadows, March 2023 story
Free access online HERE.
The captain of the Mary Celeste sees a strange ship on the horizon.
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"The Bittersweet Glimmer" in Dangerous Waters: Deadly Women of the Sea
Out now! Find it HERE.
A short story about a woman with dementia in a seniors home struggling with the possibility of remembering who she really is.
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"Minutes to Midnight" in Hell Hath Only Fury
A charity anthology of bodily autonomy horror benefiting The Brigid Alliance. Out now! Order in your favourite bookstore, or see links HERE.
My contribution is a Regency ballroom horror about a young woman struggling against the bonds of 19th century women’s autonomy. . . who finally gets her revenge.“A story made superb by Peter’s lush, exquisite prose.” - Zach Rosenberg at Horror DNA.
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"Once Upon an End Time" in Nothing Without Us Too
Out now! Details about where to purchase can be found HERE.
In this story, Sarah [who is Hard of Hearing just as I am] doesn’t think twice about her mother’s illness and heads to work at a big-box store, wondering where everyone is… then soon discovers she’s almost completely alone during an apocalyptic event.
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"Kept" in Last Girls Club Issue no .6, Summer 2022, Sex Work is Real Work
Available online, HERE.
In this gothic Western, a sex worker who has become a “kept woman” to a gold miner fears her man might not be who she thought he was. . .
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"Mired" in The No Sleep Podcast's Suddenly Shocking Volume 15 episode
Available for Season 17 Pass holders of The No Sleep Podcast
A soldier on the Western Front in WWI struggles with the enormity and guilt of being part of the war.
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“The Quiet Things in Forgotten Spaces” in Drabbledark: An Anthology of Dark Drabbles, Volume II
Available from Amazon now in print or ebook.
A 100-word story about a dog communicating something ominous - featured in this collection with many of my writer friends.
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“Southern Ontario Gothic” in The Antihumanist: 4th Edition
A Canadian trailer park-set cosmic horror flash about a woman wondering why everyone else is heading toward the lake. (Venue no longer running, but you can now find this story reprinted HERE).
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"The Lai of the Danse Macabre" in Howls from the Dark Ages: Tales of Medieval Horror
Available now! See your local bookseller or more details HERE.
In this Breton lai (a short story in rhyming verse), a religious anchoress watches from her walled-in cell as her small town in coastal France gets caught up in a dance most profane.
What are the Reviews Saying?
“Sickening stanzas of vile verse” - Zeki Czen, GoodReads reviewer
“An absolutely morbid but fascinating story that you could hear the minstrels singing and even the musicians playing along. I wanted to get up and dance a jig” - Paul Anderson, @pbandtip on Instagram