Step into the shadows and stay awhile.
This page is where I share new stories, excerpts, and gothic-y experiments—tales that explore love, trauma, mystery, and transformation. You’ll encounter haunted places, hidden histories, wounded hearts, creepy curses, and characters who must confront the past before they can claim their future.
Some pieces are complete. Others are glimpses of stories still unfolding. All are part of my ongoing exploration of the strange, the beautiful, and the deeply human. And everything is written from my heart. ❤️🦇🐺🐈⬛🕷️👻❤️
Werewolf Drabbles. Growl.
A drabble is a very short piece of fiction. The goal is to tell a complete story—with a beginning, middle and end—within 100 words (or thereabouts; there’s some flexibility about the word count.) Anyway, as family required my attention, I didn’t have a lot of head space or time to devote to my writing projects. Instead, I eked out a few minutes here an…
Roses of Devotion: A Work-In-Progress
While I was wrestling with another short story, which continues to bother me like a pebble in my shoe, the idea for this story haunted me. The image of red roses blooming out of snow and ice felt so creepy, I had to stop everything else and write the first draft. As I began to revise the story, I was reminded how important…
A Tale Readers Can't Read
Last week, I talked about working on a backstory scene and how it helped me add depth to my characters. I also mentioned sharing an actual in-progress-backstory scene. Well, what follows is the scene. Before you read it, however, you might like a little context: my next Gothic romance project is set in Upstate New York, 1872, involving ghosts and a haun…
And now for something different...
In case you’re interested, here’s the story behind this story: “The Vampire of New Castle Corners,” about a 4-minute read, was unplanned but took off in April after I read another author’s piece of flash fiction, which included a detail that captivated me. As a result, I had to put aside my other two projects to write this. The moral is: you never know …