Award Eligible Publications in 2022

These are the stories I have published or edited that can be consider for this year’s award nominations

Thank you to everyone who has read, reviewed, and/or supported my writing this year. It’s been a weird one but rewarding.

Short Story – “A River In the Desert” Electric Spec Volume 17, Issue 2, May 31, 2022

“A girl who grows up being trapped by others’ expectations discovers a mysterious connection to her lost mother… and a forgotten truth.“

The coming of age story of Rain, an awkward girl who doesn’t belong in the desert town her father moved her to, in the community, in her family of her resentful stepmother and her ignorant father and most of all in her own, water craving skin. When she experiences love for the first time since he mother left, Rain starts to open herself up to her true self, and learns why she’s always felt like a fish out of water.

Anthology Editor – The Dancing Plague: A Collection of Utter Speculation, Speculation Publications, October 13, 2022

In 1518, a woman started dancing on the streets of Strasbourg and could not stop. No priests, physics or leaders could help as more and more people joined her, jaunting as their feet bled and their bodies broke.

Centuries later the mystery endures, explained as mass hysteria, mob mentality but suspected to be something much more sinister. In this fourth collection of Utter Speculation, nine authors offer stories of witches and wishes, love and longing, of music and mastery and the deepest secrets of restless hearts.

Nine Brilliant stories with nine speculations about the real (or fantastical) cause of the mysterious dancing mania.

Anthology Editor – Incubate: A horror collection of feminine power, Speculation Publications, December 6, 2022

In a ruthless world, we must become monsters to survive.
-A bitter woman terrorizes her husband’s perfect new wife.
-A predator stalks a college town, seeking a very specific type of prey.
-Found family can be the most unforgiving of all, when a mother, maid and lover fails to care for her boys.
-Girls go out alone at night, exhuming the lies their town propagates to keep them in line.
-A fussy baby and an ignorant husband leave a new mom feeling not quite herself.
-If it is divine to suffer, then revenge might be the sweetest reward.
-There are no limits to how far a girl will go to achieve perfection for the man she loves, if that love lasts an eternity.
-The hunger to become one’s true self must be fed…
If women must be monsters, what kind of world will they give birth to?

Author Contributor “The Town Bike” Incubate: A horror collection of feminine power, Speculation Publications, December 6, 2022

Four former friends sundered by sexism and violence summon the spirit of Samantha Soddenhook, a promiscuous young woman who’s unsolved murder has been used to keep girls in line for two decades. Coming together in trauma they scrape away the facade of protection and reveal the rotting belly of deception.

Written in verse.

Anthology Short Story- “Strawberries” Out of Darkness Anthology by WolfSinger Publications, December 20, 2022

Proceeds will go to the Amridan Foundation for Suicide Prevention

A hedge witch reconsiders her choice to avoid dark magick when her beloved daughter falls into an abusive relationship. What cost is she willing to pay to keep her daughter safe?