[short story | dark fantasy] "My 6-year-old daughter got sent home from school for saying mermaids have teeth like razors, soul-piercing screams, and the blood of murdered sailors caked under their fingernails."This is my entry for Mermay 2022, TalesoftheDeep. 3414 words.…
[short story] Two young academics seek out the lost temple of the Moiraean Hippocampus, but for Nigel this is more than just a scholarly pursuit. He's got his own reasons to believe that the mythical Hippocampus actually exists, and he's determined to come face to face with it. This is an entry for mythandlegend and talesofthedeep 's Panhellenic Games 2022 contest.…
[ONC2020 Shortlister / A Featured Story on Wattpad Low Fantasy]You can't outrun the past. Hattie Newfield is a fake medium who makes a living off pretending to speak with the dead. But Hattie has a real psychic gift--she can "read" people's memories. When Hattie is approached by a stranger with an intriguing job proposal, she learns that she has other psychic powers that aren't easily controlled. As the two join forces to investigate a mysterious haunting, her psychic powers grow and the past begins encroaching on the present in unforeseen ways. Now Hattie must face her own troubled memories before the dark past overtakes them both.…
A collection of supernatural and paranormal short stories.…
[historical supernatural | short story] Do ancient gods linger in forgotten places? {Winner of Wattpad Dark Fantasy's May Dark Tournaments contest}…
[short story | dark fantasy] A carnival ride takes Jess to a mysterious place, where the lines between her past and future are blurred. This is an entry for WattpadDarkFantasy 's May 2022 Dark Tournaments. This one's on the lighter side of dark. 2957 words.…
[short story / dark fantasy] When rain and snow at one time fall, the curse will be awakened. He will return to slay the ones who wronged Him, until He claims what is rightfully His. Is today the day?(This is my entry for WattpadDarkFantasy April Dark Tournaments)…
[short story / paranormal] After her father's death, Ester longs to make a connection with someone, especially her mother. When she finds a possibly haunted old lamp, the family's past revisits them in an unexpected way. This is my entry for Low Fantasy's first contest. (1492 words.)…
Amelia Holte banishes ghosts for a living... and she's good at it. But when she's hired to investigate a haunting at an orphanage, she begins to realize that some ghosts are not so easily cast aside. The dead always return to us, one way or another. With a powerful ghostly threat growing stronger, the only way to protect the children may be for Amelia to relive her own childhood memories and come face to face with the thing that haunts her the most.…
Quiet girl Gwen just moved to a new town and a new school. She just wants to keep her head down and not make waves. Just fit in, as her mom says. But when mysterious phenomena begin to happen all around her, she seeks the help of the weirdest girl in her class--Hazel the Witch--to find out what's going on and how to make it stop. As spiders rain from the sky, her homework spontaneously combusts, and at least one cat starts to talk, Gwen learns that maybe even she has a little bit of "witch" inside her.…
[short story / 2nd place winner of Tales of the Deep's Mermay contest] On a tiny remote island, a Neolithic tomb sits forgotten on the hillside. It is the Museum of Vanished Things, and it has a Keeper-an aquatic creature of folklore who has inhabited it for a long, long time.…
[short-short story | historical paranormal] An undead creature of the night has a chance to regain his mortality and humanity. Is it the right time?…
Welcome to the offbeat world of the fictional Miss Mead, who has taken it upon herself to collate some of her esoteric research into this short volume for your perusal. This is a fictional catalogue of magickal potions with simple illustrations and short, lighthearted descriptions.…