The Consoling Divide
Five years ago, Emily Anderson of Royal Oak Court Trailer Park was declared the Chosen One and sent on a quest to the Sidhe realm to end the exile of the adults who raised her. She succeeded, because that’s what Chosen Ones do, but the aftermath left her alone and in charge of the rest of the children in the trailer court.
Since her return, they’ve all found a kind of peace and stability, but nothing can stay the same forever. When Emily learns she has to plunge back into the fairy world she gladly left and reopen emotions she’d even more gladly bottled up, her reluctance is met by the one thing she knows is true: she can only rely on herself. One of the children Emily raised needs her, but first she needs to find them. The world she’s returning to is a different one than what she experienced as a hopeful teen, and even when it is familiar her place in it is no longer as clearly defined, the path not so easily followed.
Serialisation begins June 21, 2026, find story tags, content warnings here.
Flash Fiction
Flash Fiction February Collections
Ten pieces of flash fiction created during Storytelling Collective’s Flash Fiction February, edited and accompanied by illustrations.
Gentle sci-fi, friendly fantasy, uneasy horror, the softly strange everyday, overall just a stew of vibes.
Find these ~5k+ collections on Itch.io for $1+ as epub and pdf files.
Flash Fiction February 2022
Flash Fiction February 2023
Flash Fiction February 2024
Flash Fiction February 2025
Flash Fiction February 2026
Some favourite pieces are also available on the blog in the tag “flash fiction.”
The Audacity Gambit
Available as an ebook or in print-on-demand paperback:
Amazon | Amazon UK | Barnes & Noble | Smashwords | Bookshop.org
Find all the places you can buy a copy here!
Available in ebook and print on demand paperback–heck, you can even request it at your library.
Find all posts about The Audacity Gambit here.
Every teen hits a stretch in life where they feel like they’ve been forcefully isolated from the world. The standard fantasy trope is that it’s all for a reason—they’re the Chosen One. They’ve got to save their village, rescue a princess, find the key.
But 18-year-old Emily’s village is a trailer park and the people she’s fighting for may have performed more terrible deeds than the enemies she’ll have to confront.
With little choice in the matter, Emily plunges head-first on a quest into a fairy world that isn’t nearly as fabulous and fantastical as books would lead you to believe, though it’s a nice enough place for a vacation.
Recently serialised! If you’d like to check it out (read for free), just pop over here to find story tags, content warnings, and the whole thing handily snipped up into little sections for easy reading.
Short Fiction
The Kind and the Unkind Girls
A girl wished into existence, a girl who finds her own way, a girl saved, and two girls caught.
Four short stories that technically fall under a traditional Aarne-Thompson folktale classification, but take their own path there. Three of the stories: “Straw”, “The Pink”, and “Sleeping” have been shared online before. The titular story, “The Kind and the Unkind Girls”, is new for this collection.
From “Sleeping”:
Prince Frances, stalwart and true, stood before the wall of thorns and contemplated his approach. Looking up, he followed the thick growth as it twisted and snagged up crenellated towers. There was a castle beneath the briar and inside the castle, if rumour proved true, a princess locked in a magical sleep, awaiting a kiss.
Frances hadn’t rescued a princess before, though he was not unfamiliar with quests. The sword he jabbed experimentally at the thorns had been dipped in the blood of a giant magical boar he’d killed in some dark wood a few years back. The blade was now tough enough to cut through anything but dragon hide. Killing a dragon and bathing his sword in its blood would come later. After the princess, before any heirs. He had time for quests yet, even after he rescued and married this girl in the castle.
This 7k+ word short story collection is available on Itch.io for $1+ as mobi, epub, and pdf files.
(It’s Not) The End of the World
Sometimes the signs are there but you gotta keep living anyway. Also: crows are only harbingers of joy.
The sun had been veiled by a bitter haze for weeks. Fina had to wear her mask any time she ventured outside, which was getting tiring. Every summer the wildfires seemed to burn more steadily, the wind carrying smoke farther and deeper into the city on angry currents from the dry fields and doomed forests.
She didn’t like the way her mask made her all too aware of her breathing, or that her night-time facial routine now included extra steps to wipe the soot from her skin. And she especially didn’t like that her best friend Becka had to rely on grocery deliveries, hiding inside with a rescue inhaler, her air purifier purring constantly as it scrubbed air already half-cleaned by the house’s HVAC filters.
This 3k+ word short story is on Itch.io for $0+ as mobi, epub, and pdf files.
Before Dungeons, Dragons & Dives: Reives
Who says kenku have to be crow-like? Reives, a kea-like rogue, is round, bright green and very tired. Currently, they’re caught up in a campaign that has them cooking – not just the (edible) monsters they battle, but sweet treats and giant meals. It’s weird as heck and a nice change from everything that has come before.
This 15k+ word ebook is a collection of the character vignettes previously shared on my Patreon, freshly edited and with new framing text.
Available on Itch.io for $1 as mobi, epub, and pdf files.
Short Fiction – Older
What other option had she beyond marrying herself off so that some other man could run her life?
•••
“Shove over Mags, it’s a blasted mirror, not your lover, share it.”
“Ah Torrie, I’d share both, you know that.”
•
The two girls, even if they’d saved their pin money for months, couldn’t have afforded box seats.
•
This is how the story starts: There was a princess. Later, there was a prince.
•
I existed.