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Short StoriesObject Impermanence: Weird and Fantastic Stories
How do you know the world still exists when you’re not looking? If object permanence is the human ability to understand that things are still there when you can’t see them, then object impermanence is the ghost hovering over your shoulder giving bad advice, that ominous feeling that something bad is just about to happen, and waking up in the morning not sure that the world outside your front door even exists. This collection of weird and fantastic short stories will take you to a pawnshop that trades in emotions, a speakeasy in the year 2686, an aquarium with a pet mermaid, and a diner with a meatloaf special to die for, among other tales of liminal spaces, tilted realities, and the monsters within A Witch By Any Other Name Published by Metastellar in May 2024 Read You Make Your Own Luck Published by Typehouse in March 2022 Order/Read Wanda's Lunch Cart Diner Published by The Dark Corner Zine in Fall 2021 Order Renaissance "But you feel like someone at some point has taken a paint stripper to you, and all that’s left is faded out and smudged." Published by The Quiet Reader in September 2020 Read Where There's a Will Having little to his name when he died, the reading of Henry Fromm's will went quickly. Published by The Daily Drunk in June 2020 Read Open Eyes, Like a Flinch, and Off Into the Sunset A series of exactly 100 word zombie-themed drabbles Published in 100 Word Bigger Zombie Bites: An Undead Drabbles Anthology Read Object Impermanence "Let me start by asking you all this: How do you know the world still exists when you’re not looking?" Published by Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight in February 2020 Read Unfinished Business “There he is. Go on now. Punch him.” Published by Harbinger Press in November 2019. Read Through the Glass Darkly Published by Smoking Pen Press in the Vampires, Zombies, and Ghosts anthology, Volume 2 in August 2019. Read Intersection Published in Capulet Magazine in July 2019. Read Pit Stop Existence Published in Adelaide Literary Magazine in June 2019. Read Barter for the Stars Published by Atthis Arts in the Five Minutes at Stormcove Hotel Anthology in May 2019 Purchase/Read The Witch and the Runaway Frantic pounding at the door coerced the witch out of her favorite sitting chair by the hearth and hobbling across the floor of her cottage. Many people came to entreat for her help, and almost always at inconvenient times. Like today, after super, when she had just sat down to give her weary bones a rest. Published in Briars Lit Vol 2 in January 2019 Read Another Life Nothing’s been right since Dana awoke from 23-year long coma: she hasn’t aged a day, her memories don’t feel like her own, and her husband Ben is having locked door meetings with her doctor. Secrets are being kept from her, and she’s going to figure out what they are. Published in Future Visions Vol 3 in December 2018 Read The Pawnshop of Intangible Things Second place winner of the 2017 Baltimore Science Fiction Society's Amateur Writing Contest Originally published by Deep Magic in the Summer 2018 issue. Read Don't Lie To Me "When most people thought of superpowers, they think big: super-strength, laser vision, flight. They didn’t think of the static that buzzed through Evie’s ears whenever someone spoke a direct mistruth." Originally published in the 20th edition of Devilfish Review in March 2018. Read Seeds "She approached him not with fear, but with innocent boldness..." A Persephone and Hades retelling. Originally published by Enchanted Conversation, February 2018 Issue, "A Dream of Love." Read Castles at Night “Listen,” Thea said, “Listen and you can hear the castle talk at night.” Originally published by Manawaker Studios in February 2018. Listen What You Make Of It "George smiled faintly at the waiting guest. ‘Overcoat’ she labeled him in her head, because this definitely wasn’t the weather for one. Overcoat didn’t smile back, just blinked slowly, face like driftwood." Originally published by Fantasia Divinity in June 2017, Issue 11 Read The Spirals "Mrs. Dawnson, widow and Sunday School teacher, called it the devil’s mark to anyone who would listen, including all listeners of the WQ2 morning talk show." Originally published for a Tablo contest in July 2015 Read Lately Maggie, seven years old and almost eight, just wanted things to go back to normal. She wanted to play on the swingset without feeling guilty, she wanted her sister Alice to stop crying, and she wanted it so that Kari, their friend from across the street, never got hit by that car. But Maggie couldn’t change any of that; all she could do was try to understand grief, death, and how to be there for her big sister. Originally published by the Eunoia Review in November 2011 Read Smoking Section “Y’know, they’re trying to pass this law to ban smoking in restaurants and bars?” Blake -- smoking addict and floundering journalist -- shares drinks, cigarettes, and a debate about smoking ban legislation with Kristen -- an old flame and now a successful Californian businesswoman -- when she’s back in town. He regrets it. Originally published by the Eunoia Review in November 2011 Read Surface "She knows how deep the pool is, only four feet where she sits, but it’s hard to tell looking at it with the solid blue lining, the darkness of after midnight, the tiredness of a long day, and the buzz of alcohol in her head. She wonders if this is how he saw it, before he jumped." Originally published by Litsnack Magazine in December 2010 Read |
Personal EssaysIn The Eye of the Beholder
This personal essay about beauty and self-image was called an"unflinching examination of modern standards of beauty and the author’s own insecurities" by Fuse-National.com . Framed during the events of a family wedding, author Margery Bayne explores her complicated relationship with her looks, built upon her experiences as an childhood "ugly duckling" and exploration of modern beauty culture. Originally published by Outrageous Fortune in volume 2.2 Read The Short Of It |