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The Girl Who
a novel in stories
Short Stories and Flash Fiction
From the Girl Who - a novel in stories
The Girl Who Finds a Moss So Soft, You Can Sleep In It - After Happy Hour Review - absurdist horror
A wayward daughter finds herself in the woods one day where she encounters something strange.
The Girl Who Tends the Paper Forest - Tatterhood Review - fabulism/fairy tale, magical realism
He finds her on the side of the road, and it is raining. This is how it begins for them. This is how it always begins.
The Girl Who Visited the Alligator Queen - TulipTree - fabulism/fairy tale, magical realism
Winner of Tulip Tree’s Wild Women Contest
In the abandoned mall, the Alligator Queen and her court wait to grant your wishes.
The Girl and the Fragmented Body - Fatal Flaw - horror, magical realism
The night the silvering begins starts with a dinner with her colleagues, though she supposes colleagues is not the right word for them, exactly.
From I’ll Tell You a Love Story
Anatomist - Obra Artifact/PseudoPod - horror, magical realism
After the earthquake, she goes out collecting bones.
At the Center of Everything - Cagibi - speculative, magical realism
There is a being smack dab in the center of the universe. It sits at the very point from which everything imploded out, and to which one day everything will slowly return.
Curlew - Psychopomp - fabulism, magical realism
There was a woman who died and left behind something important. Her youngest daughter was sent to bring it to her. To keep it safe, it was placed inside of a curlew.
Tale Telling - Syntax & Salt - fairy tale/fabulism
There is a building in town whose roof is dotted with plastic dog statues.
I’ll Tell You a Love Story - Bone Parade - fairy tale/fabulism
You’ll have to forgive me for waiting to tell this to you when you’re sleeping, but it’s the only way I can do it.
Dancing Girls - Weird City - horror, fairy tale
The Twelve Dancing Princess live down the road in a one-bedroom apartment.
Thursday - Broken Pencil - fabulism, magical realism
After your rejection, I’ll start drinking. Or rather, I’ll keep drinking, but I’ll be doing it with intent. That’s a completely different beast. I’ll become a completely different beast. By Thursday, you won’t recognize me.
My Darling, Where Have You Gone? - Dark Lane - fairy tale/fabulism
The Witch-Girl lives in the forest of loss.
The Woman the Spiders Loved - Penultimate Peanut/PsuedoPod - horror, fairy tale/fabulism
There was a woman who the spiders fell in love with. You knew her in high school, but you weren’t friends. She was plainish. She still is.
Uncollected Short Stories
Clowntown -Thrice Fiction- absurdist, magical realism, flash fiction
Neither of us were happy with the neighborhood to begin with…
The Oakton - Aphelion - horror
Sunny days were the worst. On days it was raining there would be a steady enough base of customers pouring through, never enough to fill the lobby, but enough to keep them at bay.
Providence - Deimois - speculative, horror
We all agree that Annie getting struck by lightning was the best thing that could have happened.
Dream Girls - Tales From the Grave - horror
When she comes back, she isn’t how he imagined her.
After I Had Prayed…-50 Word - microfiction
When I came home from work the bird wasn’t singing in its cage.
Dearest, I Am Sorry - 50 Word - microfiction
Loneliness had been an epidemic that left all of my body boarded up.