Books and More
Most works are arranged from most recent to earliest, though I've decided to organize the short stories by theme.
Books
Below is a catalogue of my published long-form work. Under each summary is a content warning for those who need it.
Note: My three horror novels and most of my short works were published under a different name.
Below is a catalogue of my published long-form work. Under each summary is a content warning for those who need it.
Note: My three horror novels and most of my short works were published under a different name.
Rachel, after many, many years, has found love in the form of Marcus and Linda; the fact her adoptive parents are serial killers with a little penchant for cannibalism now and again makes everything a lot more complicated. Basically, if NBC's "Hannibal" were a Southern Gothic family drama.
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Content warning: Death; rape; grief; PTSD; abortion operation; suicide (unsuccessful attempt by hypothermia); cannibalism; mention of racism and homophobia (in a negative light)
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Content warning: Death; rape; grief; PTSD; abortion operation; suicide (unsuccessful attempt by hypothermia); cannibalism; mention of racism and homophobia (in a negative light)
Sequel to Dove Keeper and 84% gayer. Birds in a Cage is about Marcy, the executioner's daughter, solving a murder mystery in WWII France where women are being drained of blood in their bathtubs. She also has to connect back to her past and the two mysterious women she once had a polyamorous romance with.
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Content warning: Death of family member; sexual trauma; grief; PTSD; Nazi occupation; racism and anti-Semitism (mentioned in a negative light)
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Content warning: Death of family member; sexual trauma; grief; PTSD; Nazi occupation; racism and anti-Semitism (mentioned in a negative light)
Dove Keeper is a historical Gothic horror novel from the perspectives of three women who must contend with unspeakable horror in a dilapidated manor in WWI France. The story has been compared to The Others and Crimson Peak, and it also has shades of the macabre fairy tale "Bluebeard."
Genre: Gothic Horror
Content warning: Graphic violence; mentions of sexual abuse and rape (not shown); child and infant death; grief; PTSD
Genre: Gothic Horror
Content warning: Graphic violence; mentions of sexual abuse and rape (not shown); child and infant death; grief; PTSD
Short Stories
New horror-romance short story released as an ebook on KDP!
On Halloween 2022, "Vena Amoris" will come out! It's currently available for pre-order. If you're a fan of Angela Carter's lush and sensuous prose as well as the hazy eroticism and dream-logic of Seventies sapphic vampire films, this one is for you!
"Vena Amoris" is a 5,000-word explicit erotic horror-romance that contains:
-A bisexual lead who eats people 🫀
-Dark fairy tale vibes ✨
-FMMMM and FFF 👀
-Vampire ladies in a gothic castle 🦇
-Bloodplay 🩸
I will warn that if blood is not a kink you're remotely interested in even in a fantastical sense, this one isn't for you. Otherwise, enjoy!
On Halloween 2022, "Vena Amoris" will come out! It's currently available for pre-order. If you're a fan of Angela Carter's lush and sensuous prose as well as the hazy eroticism and dream-logic of Seventies sapphic vampire films, this one is for you!
"Vena Amoris" is a 5,000-word explicit erotic horror-romance that contains:
-A bisexual lead who eats people 🫀
-Dark fairy tale vibes ✨
-FMMMM and FFF 👀
-Vampire ladies in a gothic castle 🦇
-Bloodplay 🩸
I will warn that if blood is not a kink you're remotely interested in even in a fantastical sense, this one isn't for you. Otherwise, enjoy!
Penny Bloods & Flowers
That night the Baron dreamt of many a woe; / And all his warrior-guests, with shade and form / Of witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm, / Were long be-nightmared. -John Keats
Stories based on nineteenth-century Edwardian and Victorian works, often with an LGBT element.
✿ "Blue Fire" (Headcanon Magazine, 2021): An LGBT retelling of Jane Eyre through Bertha Mason's eyes.
✿ "Oscar Wilde and John Keats in a Cemetery, Spring 2019" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): Exactly what it says on the tin. Your average nineteenth-century vampire boyfriends visiting Oscar's grave in France.
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Grotesque & Lovely
I have a fish’s tail, so I’m not qualified to love you. / But I do . . . I have teeth in places you’d never suspect. Come. Kiss me / and die soon. -Amy Gerstler, "Siren"
Romances that are dark, melancholy, but also gentle.
✿ "A Perfect Red" (Eldritch Journal, 2020): A young woman in a cursed Southern town must decide whether to let her newborn be sacrificed.
✿ "The Girls from Nothing" (Shades of Pride, TL;DR Press, 2019): Two women from H.P. Lovecraft's short stories, Asenath Waite ("The Thing on the Doorstep") and Lavinia Whateley ("The Dunwich Horror"), explore their trauma together.
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Queering Greek Mythology
If you forget me, think of our gifts to Aphrodite / and all the loveliness that we shared / all the violet tiaras, braided rosebuds, / dill and crocus twined around your young neck / myrrh poured on your head / and on soft mats girls with all that they most wished for beside them -Sappho
Stories inspired by Greek mythology that mostly have queer interpretations of some of the relationships, such as Scylla and Circe and Hecate and Persephone. Some of these are not explicitly romantic but take place in the same universe.
✿ "Temptation" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): Hecate convinces Persephone to give Cerberus some pomegranate tarts.
✿ "Home" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): Persephone and Hecate talk by the Styx.
✿ "Scylla and the Witch" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): A take on the Greek myth of Circe and Scylla.
✿ "Andromeda" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): A brief retelling of the sacrifice of Andromeda.
✿ "Iron Girl" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): A flash fiction look at Persephone.
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How Awful Goodness Was
Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely—saw, and pined His loss -John Milton Paradise Lost
These pieces take place in the universe of my contemporary fantasy series picked up by Scarsdale Publishing. The work is focused on a young trans woman named Sib and Satan, the Devil. The stories range from brief character pieces to explorations on the romance between Judas and Satan.
✿ "Exercise" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2021): The archangel Michael bench-presses away his feelings after Satan's fall.
✿ "Hell with Friends" (Beneath Strange Stars, TL;DR Press, 2020): Sib tries to find her place in Hell.
✿ "Birthday Flowers" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): Satan does something special for Judas.
✿ "Devils' Catch" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): Judas/Satan goodness.
✿ "The Stygian Home for Cats, Goats, Human Spawn, and Miscellaneous Sacrifices" (Kindred, TL;DR Press, 2019): Yet another Judas/Satan story leading into my eventual series. As part of a "family" prompt, Judas and Satan visit an orphanage in Limbo with an absurdly long name.
✿ "The Worst Husbands in All of Eternity" (Vamp Cat Mag, 2019): Two guys in Hell named Judas and Satan find love in all the wrong places, and it's awesome.
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Slice of Life
Short stories about an executioner and his family.
✿ "Another World" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2020): Marcy contends with the death of her mother.
✿ "Sea Sick" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2020): A young mother cares for her daughter.
✿ "Ghosts" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): An executioner grieves a loss.
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Eat Your Heart Out
Stories set in Rabbit Heart.
✿ "Aftermath" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): Part of Rabbit Heart. Rachel tries to heal.
✿ "Deer in December" (NOPE, TL;DR Press, 2018): An abridged first chapter of Rabbit Heart. Just a normal family hunting story.
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Witches, Queens, and Dark Things
Stories that don't quite fit in with the rest.
✿ "Mary's Walk" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2020): Dying English queen Mary Tudor has a talk with Circe, the sea witch.
✿ "Rebirth in Yellow" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): A personal look at how tree leaves dry out in heat.
✿ "Through the Dark Woods" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): A fictional exploration of abuse survival through dark fairy tales and myths.
✿ "Transgression" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): An incomplete journey of gender self-discovery.
✿ "The Witch's Daughter" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): As the title suggests, a daughter and her witch mom.
That night the Baron dreamt of many a woe; / And all his warrior-guests, with shade and form / Of witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm, / Were long be-nightmared. -John Keats
Stories based on nineteenth-century Edwardian and Victorian works, often with an LGBT element.
✿ "Blue Fire" (Headcanon Magazine, 2021): An LGBT retelling of Jane Eyre through Bertha Mason's eyes.
✿ "Oscar Wilde and John Keats in a Cemetery, Spring 2019" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): Exactly what it says on the tin. Your average nineteenth-century vampire boyfriends visiting Oscar's grave in France.
*
Grotesque & Lovely
I have a fish’s tail, so I’m not qualified to love you. / But I do . . . I have teeth in places you’d never suspect. Come. Kiss me / and die soon. -Amy Gerstler, "Siren"
Romances that are dark, melancholy, but also gentle.
✿ "A Perfect Red" (Eldritch Journal, 2020): A young woman in a cursed Southern town must decide whether to let her newborn be sacrificed.
✿ "The Girls from Nothing" (Shades of Pride, TL;DR Press, 2019): Two women from H.P. Lovecraft's short stories, Asenath Waite ("The Thing on the Doorstep") and Lavinia Whateley ("The Dunwich Horror"), explore their trauma together.
*
Queering Greek Mythology
If you forget me, think of our gifts to Aphrodite / and all the loveliness that we shared / all the violet tiaras, braided rosebuds, / dill and crocus twined around your young neck / myrrh poured on your head / and on soft mats girls with all that they most wished for beside them -Sappho
Stories inspired by Greek mythology that mostly have queer interpretations of some of the relationships, such as Scylla and Circe and Hecate and Persephone. Some of these are not explicitly romantic but take place in the same universe.
✿ "Temptation" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): Hecate convinces Persephone to give Cerberus some pomegranate tarts.
✿ "Home" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): Persephone and Hecate talk by the Styx.
✿ "Scylla and the Witch" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): A take on the Greek myth of Circe and Scylla.
✿ "Andromeda" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): A brief retelling of the sacrifice of Andromeda.
✿ "Iron Girl" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): A flash fiction look at Persephone.
*
How Awful Goodness Was
Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely—saw, and pined His loss -John Milton Paradise Lost
These pieces take place in the universe of my contemporary fantasy series picked up by Scarsdale Publishing. The work is focused on a young trans woman named Sib and Satan, the Devil. The stories range from brief character pieces to explorations on the romance between Judas and Satan.
✿ "Exercise" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2021): The archangel Michael bench-presses away his feelings after Satan's fall.
✿ "Hell with Friends" (Beneath Strange Stars, TL;DR Press, 2020): Sib tries to find her place in Hell.
✿ "Birthday Flowers" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): Satan does something special for Judas.
✿ "Devils' Catch" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): Judas/Satan goodness.
✿ "The Stygian Home for Cats, Goats, Human Spawn, and Miscellaneous Sacrifices" (Kindred, TL;DR Press, 2019): Yet another Judas/Satan story leading into my eventual series. As part of a "family" prompt, Judas and Satan visit an orphanage in Limbo with an absurdly long name.
✿ "The Worst Husbands in All of Eternity" (Vamp Cat Mag, 2019): Two guys in Hell named Judas and Satan find love in all the wrong places, and it's awesome.
*
Slice of Life
Short stories about an executioner and his family.
✿ "Another World" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2020): Marcy contends with the death of her mother.
✿ "Sea Sick" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2020): A young mother cares for her daughter.
✿ "Ghosts" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): An executioner grieves a loss.
*
Eat Your Heart Out
Stories set in Rabbit Heart.
✿ "Aftermath" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): Part of Rabbit Heart. Rachel tries to heal.
✿ "Deer in December" (NOPE, TL;DR Press, 2018): An abridged first chapter of Rabbit Heart. Just a normal family hunting story.
*
Witches, Queens, and Dark Things
Stories that don't quite fit in with the rest.
✿ "Mary's Walk" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2020): Dying English queen Mary Tudor has a talk with Circe, the sea witch.
✿ "Rebirth in Yellow" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): A personal look at how tree leaves dry out in heat.
✿ "Through the Dark Woods" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): A fictional exploration of abuse survival through dark fairy tales and myths.
✿ "Transgression" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): An incomplete journey of gender self-discovery.
✿ "The Witch's Daughter" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019): As the title suggests, a daughter and her witch mom.
Poems
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"Grand Loafering"
(Z Publishing, 2019) "Corpsewood" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019) "Holly" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019) "Sick Girl" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019) "Victims" (Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019) |
"Daddy Issues"
(Marias at Sampaguitas, 2019) "Samantha" (Honey & Lime, 2018) "Daughters of the Sun" (Honey & Lime, 2018) "Patty" (Z Publishing, 2018) "Turkey Hunting" (Z Publishing, 2017) |
Articles and Guest Blog Post
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"Pitching Your Book on Twitter"
(The Writing Cooperative, 2020) Tips on pitching your novel manuscript during Twitter pitch events like #PitMad, #PitDark, #DVPit, and more. "Problematic Creators: How Do We Interact with Their Work?" (The Artifice, 2020) A look at how we interact with the work of creators who have done controversial, hurtful or abusive actions. "Midsommar: The Horrors of a Toxic Relationship" (The Artifice, 2019) An analysis of toxic relationships in the 2019 film, Midsommar. "The Struggles of Getting a Diagnosis" (Knot Magick, 2019) The complications of seeking a diagnosis for mental health issues. "How Outlining Helps Me When I’m Anxious or Depressed" (Knot Magick, 2018) Reasons why outlining my writing helps during tougher weeks. Writing with Depression and Anxiety" (Survival is a Talent, 2017) A continuation of discussing what it means to make art while mentally ill. |
"A Letter to All Neurodivergent Creatives"
(Survival is a Talent, 2017) A discussion about making art while being mentally ill. "Final Girl: Horror, Action, and Gender" (The Artifice, 2016) An analysis of the 2015 action-horror film Final Girl. "Vampires in Literature: Opera Cloaks, Sparkles, and Prevailing Themes" (The Artifice, 2016) A comprehensive look at vampire fiction and recurring themes throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, from The Vampyre to Dracula to Twilight. "The Witch: Yes, it is a 'True' Horror Film" (The Artifice, 2016) A defense and analysis of the 2016 horror film The Witch. "The Sublime's Effects in Gothic Fiction" (The Artifice, 2015) A look into terror and awe in nineteenth-century literature. |
Video Games
Abandon
(itch.io, 2020)
A single-player fantasy-adventure RPG set in Hell. Like Dante's Inferno, but slightly more wholesome. And you can pet the cats. You can download it for free here!
Abandon
(itch.io, 2020)
A single-player fantasy-adventure RPG set in Hell. Like Dante's Inferno, but slightly more wholesome. And you can pet the cats. You can download it for free here!