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.
Read the full pitch →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.
Read the full pitch →The Ledger
In Draft
Melissa of the Beescomplete · unrevised · 100k
When I Was A Queendrafting · ~80k
Published
"The Owl in Daylight"
Free, Personal Story Publishing Project · 2026
"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