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It's been a big year for publications, so I'm updating this post once again with my available stories! Some are free online, some are pay to read, but shoot me a message if anything's outside your price range and I'll just send you a pdf no problem.

Blanket CW: My work is horror and horror adjacent, and features gore and potentially uncomfortable sexuality more often than not. Proceed with caution; particularly intense works will have additional content warnings.

The Hero: A nasty little story about smoking weed and working food service and performing acts of incredible and senseless violence on behalf of your coworkers. Published in Mangoprism.

Satellite Office: A nameless lesbian engineer forced from her workplace after a traumatic event develops an unusual medical issue, which exposes hairline cracks in her marriage. This probably has nothing to do with what she does for work. Published by Sans Press in their Stranger anthology; nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Polly Says: On the eve of their annual guys and dolls trip, three iDollators and their silicone brides gather in the basement of their cohort's most ambitious for the unveiling of the newest enhancement to his doll, Polly. Things go downhill pretty quickly from there. CWs for sexuality and gore. Published in Cloaked Press's Nightmare Fuel: Body Horror anthology.

Born Sexy Tomorrow: A group of lovable twenty-somethings discover a nonverbal naked woman in the woods outside their lakehouse. CWs for heavy gore and cannibalism, I'm not kidding. Published in Reader Beware's fourth issue.

The Sound of a Gong: Every day, Cecilia, the lady of the house, is murdered with a hammer by the lord she never sees. Every morning, she wakes anew, trapped within the manor's walls. A Gothic time loop featuring light incest and lots and lots of circles. Published by Tales to Terrify, available to listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Rufus: Isolated and grieving in hot suburban sprawl, Aria Wilson returns to her childhood home for a summer alone. Rufus, the man next door living full-time as a dog, thinks she could use some company. Published by A Midnight Kind of Place in both text and podcast form, plus an interview with me about Rufus's origin as A Guy to Scare My Wife With, writing with alexithymia and my projects in progress!

NEW! Dead Wife: After a brutal car accident, two childhood friends meet in a basement to resurrect the narrator's dead wife. However, they fail to resurrect the dead marriage, and balk when Nora arises livelier than before. Published in Horrific Scribblings. CWs for domestic abuse, animal death and explicit sexuality.

Read these books and give them a little more love!

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).

Set a couple of decades before the events of Space Trash, Yes Chef follows turbo-divorced bipedal isopod Mikal Rime, a head chef tasked with putting together an unforgettable dinner party for a weapons magnate's very forgettable wife. His penchant for rare ingredients takes him places his sous chef Susan wouldn't go with a gun.

This story has been cooking in the queue for more than a year, and I am beyond excited to finally be sharing it. It's set in the Space Trash universe, but focuses on some of the aliens that don't get much screentime in Space Trash and, like many of my stories, does not end well for anyone. Cws for body horror, some gore and animal death.

Updated June 12th, 2026

"Anti-Psychotic" -- 4k words. A person living with schizophrenia reckons with the realization that their delusions may have more basis in reality than they thought. Originally appears in Diet Milk Magazine F/W II.

"Dream Home" -- 1k words. Not a house that is haunted, but a house that haunts you. Narrated version available through the Creepy podcast Patreon.

"The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" -- 5k words. A lonely, isolated alcoholic begins obsessively fantasizing about her two coworkers at their rural country music radio station. [Note: this story is Not Safe For Work] Appears in issue 4 of God's Cruel Joke.

"Watch Where You're Going" -- 3.5k words. Two trans people talk about life while one of them finishes her shift at the local video store. Appears in issue 6 of Olit Magazine.

"Maintenance Email Transcripts Sept-Oct 2022" -- 2k words. A person living in Boston seeks mold remediation for her apartment with increasing desperation. Appears as an online feature from God's Cruel Joke.

"From the Journals of Dr. Arthur Sweetly" -- 6k words. A Victorian surgeon with an interest in Spiritualism documents his dubious experiments as he seeks to prove the rumored distance communication method of sympathetic writing. Appears in issue 4 of Reader Beware.

"Newshawk's Crawl" -- 5k words. A turn-of-the-century newspaper writer goes to extreme lengths to get his story, but there are some places you just can't come back from. Appears in issue 1106 of Bewildering Stories.

"Butterfly Stitch" -- 4k words. Following a conviction for providing illegal abortions, a disgraced transsexual surgeon turns to backalley work offering gender affirming surgeries for those with nowhere else to go. Appears in Speculative Erotics, issue 5 of God's Cruel Joke.

My story "Nearest and Dearest" is now available to read as an online feature with God's Cruel Joke. Things haven't been the same for Emma since her fall, but at least she has her daughter Jane to take care of her now. There's nothing quite like the love a daughter has for her mother, the way Jane loves Emma. Nothing in the world.

3.3k, content warning for emotional incest and grotesque implications. Read the story for free right here:

It began with a basic hornypost, and a comment under said post:

So, the fatal BreadSlice was getting clowned on in the replies, until: