Writer, Creative, Guinea Pig Momma
My new story Viral Video is a short sharp satirical twist on the good old zombie trope, because what else you gonna do in the aftermath of a strange influenza outbreak than make a found footage movie, right? Now available in Pantheon Magazine's Typhon: A Monster Anthology. Amazon US Amazon UK Createspace *Get an extra 15% off at Createspace … Continue reading Viral Video in Typhon: A Monster Anthology
Hey, so long time posting right? But forget that, for behold: great news! Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good has been nominated for a This Is Horror Award in the anthology category. If you so want, you can cast your votes for this category and all the others with a simple clickety-click
Instead of school we go to the hill. Lie flat on our backs, grass tickling my neck, tickling the backs of my bare legs. Above us the un-tangible drift free, forever shifting temporal shapes. A fluffy white bunny cloud gets longer, stretches out and breaks into road kill. The imagined wisps of a cliff fall … Continue reading The Perpetual Rhythm of Escape
If you haven't brought a physical copy of Pantheon Issue 8 NYX you can now read The Epiphany of Cool for free by heading over there lickety-split. And while your there you should totally take the opportunity to browse all the great stories and poetry they've published. Go on, you know you want to 😉
I push my tongue hard against the back of my teeth. “Real coolness isn’t achieved by doing dumb shit stuff.” I spread my hands out wide in a ta-dah gesture. “All we’ll get from this night is the empty sham of pseudo popularity.” Jade tucks her bunny slipper feet under herself, curls up on the … Continue reading The Epiphany of Cool
I choose a patch on the ceiling and stare until my eyes lose focus, same way they tell you to look at those dumb 3D eye pictures. How when you’re not really looking you can see everything. My breath slows, deep to the pit of my stomach, a barely there breeze grazing my lips. Counting … Continue reading Lady Pincushion and the Circus of the Dead
...open to expansion, obviously 😉
My short story All That Glitters is now live at Revolt Daily! Read it here (link deactivated, site no longer exists) XO
My short story Wish You Were Here is now live at Menacing Hedge, you can read it by clicking here! XO
You can now read my short story Collectables at Cease, Cows. xo
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