Stories

Stories

Published, forthcoming, and still finding their way into the world.

Complete · 100,000 words · Standalone

Melissa of the Bees

Southern Gothic YA fantasy

Seventeen-year-old Melissa Larkin is bound by a deadly curse to her small Appalachian mountain town — and to the mother who has promised to kill her when she turns eighteen.

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In Progress · ~80,000 words drafted

When I Was A Queen

Literary fiction with speculative elements

By day, Nora is a wife in Boulder, Colorado, taught to flinch in her own bed. By night, she becomes Anguissette — a self-crowned queen the men around her would follow off a cliff.

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Status

The Ledger

In Draft
Melissa of the Beescomplete · unrevised · 100k
When I Was A Queendrafting · ~80k
Published
Cover of Free, Vol. 13 of the Personal Story Publishing Project
"The Owl in Daylight" Free, Personal Story Publishing Project · 2026
Cover of Wet Country, Crooked Spine Press
"Hillbilly Exorcism" Wet Country, Crooked Spine Press · 2026
Submitting
"The Unchosen One"A woman who spent her childhood trying to earn magic that never came
"The Most Unnecessary Thing"An online guild builds a home from nothing, one gift at a time