Never Love, No Room for Monsters
Horror short story. Haunted by the rotting memory of her mother, Alice seeks to break a cycle of neglect and protect her unborn daughter, even if that means facing the childhood monsters who devoured everyone she ever dared to love. Part of Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror, a women-in-horror anthology coming in May 2024 from Black Spot Books.
All Bitterness Burned Away
Horror short story. A brief fairy tale about cookies and cannibalism. Part of Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, a women-in-horror anthology published in November 2022 by Black Spot Books. Find Into the Forest on Amazon and Goodreads.
(3rd Place Winner, Uncharted Magazine 2021 Summer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Award)
Sci-fi short story. A post-apocalyptic plant mom and her fiercely hyper-vigilant girlfriend try to survive in a feral, infected world. Could hope be hiding in a tiny discovery? // Ken Liu on “Green Thumb”: “I’m no good at keeping plants alive; perhaps that’s why I’m so fascinated by stories featuring plants and the people who connect with them. I love the premise here and the world spun from it.”
Horror short story (audio adaptation). “The house is settling in the cool of the evening, you tell yourself—this cozy old house that cost you next to nothing. It’s settling, that’s all, and that’s why it sings so at night, crooning in creaks and scrapes and those odd, pulsing puffs that sound so very much like something breathing behind your headboard.” Available on the Season Pass version of S18:E15 of the NoSleep Podcast.
Jill Baguchinsky 