I am thrilled to say that my horror story “The Falling” will appear on the podcast Thirteen as a Patreon exclusive!

A new flight attendant learns there are some things you don’t talk about in the air. 

During the drink service, the passengers seemed entirely normal, asking for juice or sparkling water, munching on dry little cookies from filmy packages. They had carry-ons, books, headphones, neck pillows, the same as always. And yet, Jackie was clutching the handle of the cart so hard her fingers turned white.

It didn’t help that the drink service created its own tension, worsening the quiet claustrophobia to be found up here in the wide-open sky. A seat on the aisle or near a door of a plane was like a seat anywhere, unremarkable. But a passenger in a window seat would need to wait on two others to move out of their way before even reaching the aisle, and the drink cart made it worse, filling the whole aisle, sealing off entire portions of the cabin as it moved. Today Emma felt like she was constantly on the wrong side of it.

Air date TBA

Thirteen is a monthly audio fiction anthology podcast featuring atmospheric, slow burn, spooky stories. Stories that will make you smile, break your heart…and have you wishing for a night light.

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Cover reveal for Queer Weird West Tales!

Releasing August 31, 2022

“Weird West” is a genre that blends frontier settings with sci fi and/or horror elements, and this anthology features stories about queer characters encountering the truly weird. Edited by the wonderful Julie Bozza.

Details on all the stories in the anthology and how to order

Also: Universal book link

My story is called “The Train Ticket,” a horror piece with (because it’s me) a smidge of romance:
A man finds himself holding a train ticket to Hell after accidentally attempting to rob a ghost train. While seeking shelter from a deadly blizzard in an isolated prairie cabin, he plays host to an adversary and a ghostly former lover, and faces questions of his own guilt, innocence, and intention.

If it was on Ao3, these would be the tags:

Mystery, paranormal mystery, blizzard, existential crisis while undergoing a physical crisis, namely freezing to death, wrestling with morals, unexpected visitor, even more unexpected visitor, pioneers, wagon trains, railroads, train robbery, prostitution, murder, undertaking, vanishing, disease, the wild hunt (ghost riders in the sky), if it’s Old West spooky I threw it in there

I had a ton of fun with this– the whole anthology is wonderful!

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I am so thrilled to have a story in this upcoming anthology!

“The Train” A man finds himself holding a train ticket to Hell after accidentally attempting to rob a ghost train.

And because it’s me, there’s a tiny bit of romance <3

Frontiers have always attracted the Other - where they find that the Other is always already there. These 22 stories explore what happens when queer characters encounter weirdness on the edge of the worlds they know.

Details and pre-orders

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