As of November 2023:
Upcoming:
“Crown Shyness,” an Alondra story about a woodland rescue, will appear in the Ladies of Horror Flash Project in November 2023.
“The Ambush Hunters,” a brand-new Alondra story set in San Francisco, will appear in 99 Fleeting Fantasies, edited by Jennifer Brozek, to be published by Pulse late in 2023.
Published:
“The Silence of Sirens,” an Alondra story set in the winter in Prague, appears in the Shallow Waters: Horror Flash Fiction Anthology (A Series of Supernatural Stories), edited by Joe Mynhardt and published by Crystal Lake in October 2023. The collection was originally published as an ebook called Shallow Waters: A Flash Anthology, volume 1 in June 2019.
“Nightbears,” about fighting the monsters under the bed, appears in Manor of Frights, edited by Emerian Rich and published by HorrorAddicts.net.
“The Devil’s Debt” appeared in Occult Detective Magazine #9, published in February 2023. It’s the first time my characters Alondra DeCourval and the succubus Lorelei cross paths. One of the reviewers thought the story owes a debt to Elmore Leonard!
“Far from Home,” my favorite of the stories I’ve written for the Ladies of Horror Fiction flash project, was published in June 2023. Alondra helps a stranded sea creature find her way home.
“Petrichor Gothic,” the shortest story I’ve written yet appeared online at Spreading the Writers Word by way of the Ladies of Horror Fiction flash project. It was published in May 2023. Alondra seeks out a haunting in Scotland.
I contributed to all four volumes of the Wily Writers Presents Tales of… series.
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- “Guardian of the Golden Gate,” about the deadly lure of the Golden Gate Bridge, was reprinted in Tales of Dread, edited by Lisa Morton. It was published in June 2022. The story originally appeared in Strange California, edited by Jaym Gates and J. Daniel Batt (Falstaff Books/StoryJitsu), April 2017.
- “Elle a Vu un Loup,” set on Michigan’s Mackinac Island during the full moon, appeared in Tales of Nightmares, published in July 2022. The story originally appeared in Weirdbook #40, published in November 2018.
- “Devil in Her Heart” appeared in Angel Leigh McCoy and Alison J. McKenzie’s Tales of Evil, published in October 2022. The story originally appeared in The Fabulist in October 2021. It explores why the Beatles stopped touring in 1966.
- “Still Life with Shattered Glass” appeared in E. S. Magill and Bill Bodden’s Tales of Foreboding. The most popular story I’ve ever written is reprinted from Tales for the Camp Fire: A Charity Anthology Benefiting Wildfire Relief in April 2019.
“A Wondrous Curiosity” was published by the Ladies of Horror Flash Project in July 2022. This time, Alondra discovers there’s a reason when the locals avoid the beach.
“Riders on the Storm” was published by the Ladies of Horror Flash Project in June 2022. This Alondra story is a creepy little fantasy about elemental magic and climate change.
“Zoonosis,” a story not connected to any of my other characters, was published in October 2021. It’s about being a mom and all the constant calculations that run through your head. It appears in the 99 Tiny Terrors anthology, edited by Jennifer Brozek.
“Dumb Supper,” an Alondra story about ghosts and Mardi Gras, was published by the Ladies of Horror Flash Project in March 2021.
My story collection Unsafe Words was published by Automatism Press in September 2020. It includes:
- “Here There Be Monsters” asks what is the worst predator in the woods? Originally published in The Haunted Mansion Project: Year Two (Damnation Books), Summer 2013.
- “In the Pines,” about a teenager wrestling with her sister’s disappearance, first appeared in the Women in Horror issue of Siren’s Call magazine, February 2019.
- “The Acid that Dissolves Images,” about a rock band at the end of the world, was originally published in Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect, (Automatism Press), January 1994.
- “Valentine”— In Oslo, Alondra discovers how far she will go to save Victor’s life. Originally podcast on Wily Writers, September 2010.
- “The Arms Dealer’s Daughter,” in which Ariel Shaad gets a bodyguard for her birthday, first appeared as a bonus story in the ebook edition of Space & Time #133, March 2019.
- “The Energizer Bunny Keeps Going and Going…” Instant City: a Literary Exploration of San Francisco #4, Winter 2007. Originally published as “The Energizer Bunny at Home,” Death Equinox ‘98: Cyber-Psycho Convergence II booklet, October 1998. It won the Death Equinox ’98 Fiction Contest.
- “Never Bargained for You”: succubi and rock-n-roll. The second Lorelei story originally appeared in Demon Lovers: A Succubus and Incubus Anthology, edited by Inara LaVey, (Ravenous Romance), January 2013.
- “Grandfather Carp’s Dream,” first appeared in Out of the Green: Tales from Fairyland, edited by Martha J. Allard and Kacey Vanderkarr, published by Urban Fey Press in November 2014.
- “Affamé,” City Slab #10, July 2007.
- “Mothflame,” originally published in Not One of Us #25, March 2001.
- “Sound of Impact,” originally appeared in Sins of the Sirens: 14 Tales of Dark Desire, edited by John Everson.
- “Justice,” originally published in Blood Rose, April 2003.
- “The Magic of Fire and Dawn,” Eternal Night, August 2003. Reprinted from Beyond Science Fiction and Fantasy #18, October 1990.
- “Still Life with Shattered Glass” This was the first publication of the full version. A truncated version appeared in Cemetery Dance #54, March 2006. That version took 3rd place in the Fiction Contest at the 2005 World Horror Convention.
- “With You By My Side, It Should Be Fine,” a time travel, post-plague nonbinary love story, was published for the first time in Unsafe Words.
“Mr. Moonlight,” a fairy story from Alondra’s childhood, appeared in the 50th edition of The Siren’s Call, published in July 2020. It was originally published as part of Ladies of Horror Flash Project in October 2018.
“Rock Faces,” in which Alondra encounters Pele in Hawaii, was published on the Ladies of Horror Flash Project in October 2019.
“Letter from New Orleans,” Ladies of Horror Flash Project, November 2018. On her first day in the Crescent City, Alondra wanders into a ghost story and meets the characters who appear in the story “Last-Born.”
Alondra’s Experiments is a collection of 3 previously published stories, published by Automatism Press in February 2018. This ebook includes:
- “The Shattered Rose”— In Golden Gate Park, Alondra discovers that she’s not cut out to be a vampire. Reprinted from Instant City magazine, May 2013. Previously appeared in The Paramental Appreciation Society chapbook, reprinted by Automatism Press, October 2007. Originally published by Red Snake Press, an imprint of Borderlands Bookstore, March 2007.
- “Catalyst”— An Alondra story which combines alchemy and absinthe in Prague. First published in Not One of Us #44, October 2010.
- “Valentine”— In Oslo, Alondra discovers how far she will go to save Victor’s life. Originally podcast on Wily Writers, September 2010.
Alondra’s Investigations is a collection of 3 previously published stories, published by Automatism Press in April 2018. This ebook includes:
- “The Fatal Book” — Alondra discovers a book that claims to have destroyed Atlantis. The story originally appeared in New Realm magazine, May 2016.
- “A Curiosity of Shadows” — Alondra fights the things that ghosts fear. Initially published in The Haunted Mansion Project: Year One, edited by E.S. Magill, (Damnation Books), March 2012.
- “Last-born” — In New Orleans, Alondra makes the ultimate sacrifice. Reprinted from Sins of the Sirens: Fourteen Tales of Dark Desire, edited by John Everson (Dark Arts Books), January 2008. The story initially appeared in The Ghostbreakers: New Horrors, edited by Danielle Naibert and G. W. Thomas (RAGEmachine Books), May 2005.
Alondra’s Adventures is a collection of 3 previously published stories, published by Automatism Press in June 2018. This ebook contains includes:
- “The Fox and the Foreigner” — Alondra befriends a fox living in a shrine in Tokyo. Originally published in Not One of Us #38, October 2007. The story was long-listed for the British Science Fiction Association Award, January 2008.
- “The Drowning City” — Something ancient stalks the canals of Venice. Reprinted from Best New Horror #27, edited by Stephen Jones (PS Publishing), February 2017. Previously published in Nevermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery, and the Macabre, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick and Caro Soles (Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing), October 2015.
- “Sakura Time” — The Japanese believe that anything that has eyes also has a soul. Sometimes it has more than one. Originally published in Fright Mare: Women writer Horror, edited by Billie Sue Mosiman, January 2016.
Alondra’s Exploits is a collection of 3 previously published stories, published by Automatism Press in June 2022. This ebook contains include:
- “Something in the Water” — Alondra tries to protect a water sprite from an scientist and vice versa. This was originally published in Occult Detective Quarterly #5, January 2019.
- “Elle a Vu un Loup” — Something stalks the tourist destination Mackinac Island. The story originally appeared in Weirdbook #40, published in November 2018.
- “Guardian of the Golden Gate” — Something has awakened beneath the Golden Gate Bridge…and it is hungry. The story originally appeared in Strange California, edited by Jaym Gates and J. Daniel Batt (Falstaff Books/StoryJitsu), April 2017.
“The Rush of Wind” was first published in Flight: Queer Sci Fi’s Third Annual Flash Fiction Contest anthology, published September 2016 by Mischief Corner Books. This is a little flash fiction about Raena and Ariel, characters from my Templar novels, before they were separated by Thallian.
Ashes & Rust, a chapbook containing four post-apocalyptic stories, was updated for the Kindle March 2012. It was originally published by Automatism Press in October 2006. It includes:
- “The Acid that Dissolves Images,” originally published in Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect (Automatism Press), March 1994.
- “Fitzgerald’s Shadow,” Nice Tattoo: The Magazine of Shadow Fiction #1, May 2006. Reprinted from Indigenous Fiction #8, June 2001.
- “Justice,” originally published in Blood Rose, April 2003.
- “Mothflame,” originally published in Not One of Us #25, March 2001.
Sins of the Sirens: Fourteen Tales of Dark Desire (Dark Arts Books), updated as an ebook January 2012. Originally published by Dark Arts in January 2008, with Maria Alexander, Christa Faust, and Mehitobel Wilson. My contributions were:
- “The Angel’s Lair,” original to Sins of the Sirens. It became the first chapter of Lost Angels (Automatism Press), 2016.
- “Sound of Impact,” original to Sins of the Sirens.
- “Still Life with Shattered Glass” This was the first publication of the full version. A truncated version appeared in Cemetery Dance #54, March 2006. That version took 3rd place in the Fiction Contest at the 2005 World Horror Convention.
- “Last-Born” initially appeared in The Ghostbreakers: New Horrors, edited by Danielle Naibert and G. W. Thomas (RAGEmachine Books), May 2005.
“His Love Don’t Cost a Thing” (as Lorentz Jones), Unzipped, January 2002.
“Just Another Day in Paradise,” with Mart J. Allard and Brian Thomas, Tales of a New Republic, volume 3: Battles, May 1997. Republished on Wattpad, June 2015.
“Drifter,” with Mart J. Allard, Tales of a New Republic, volume 2: Recruits, May 1996.
“A Contest of Nerves,” with Brian Thomas, Tales of a New Republic, volume 2: Recruits, May 1996. Republished on Wattpad, December 2015.
“Redemption,” Tales of a New Republic, volume 1: Veterans, May 1995. Republished on Wattpad, November 2015.
“When Empires Fall,” an excerpt, Tales of the New Republic, volume 1: Veterans, May 1995. The whole story was published as “Trust” (as Neil Dauber) in Anthology (a Star Wars fanzine), May 1986. Republished on Wattpad, November 2015.
“Jordan Discovers What He Is,” From Scratch volume #5, a magazine celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Flint Writers’ Club, Winter 1992.
“Part Four: Dr. Chapel,” Second Star to the Right: After the Fact (a Star Trek fanzine about Spock’s death), October 1986.
“Claustrophobia,” Anthology (a Star Wars fanzine), May 1986. Republished on Wattpad, November 2015.
“The Martyrs,” Sanity, Ltd. #5, Fall 1982.
“Leather Boots,” Sanity, Ltd. #3, December 1981.
“Alone in the Dark,” Summer Youth Program Writers Workshop Bulletin, published at Michigan Technological University, Summer 1980.
