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Browse some of her already published stories by genre or by title below.
Genres
All Published Short Stories
A Damsel in Bedlam
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About the Story: William never expected to find his childhood sweetheart imprisoned in an insane asylum—and on his first day as Bedlam’s head steward. Eleanora is as beautiful as he last remembers, but her eyes seem haunted as she sits amongst the other patients, her hand moving in quiet circles, as if she’s painting. What led William’s first and only love to this place? And what can he do for her—if she’s not already beyond help?
Where To Find This Story:
- The Writing Disorder (Summer 2020)
Do You Hear the Coffin Bell?
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About the Story: Mary Smith thought she found a love match in George Blackbourne—until he passed away from a fatal illness. She grieved for her dead lover, but not for the reasons anyone thought. She loved him, yes, until she found a secret that shattered his near perfect image—a mistress and his child.
Now Mary keeps a secret of her own as she goes through the motions, mourning for a man who splintered her heart into pieces. Until the coffin bell rings, and the dead returns to life, revealing an even darker truth.
Where to Find This Story:
- The Blotter Magazine (January 2019, first publication)
- TreeHouse Arts (September 14th, 2019, republished)
- Suspense Magazine (Winter 2019 issue, republished)
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I’d Rather Lose My Head
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About the Story: In this historical re-imagining, Anne Boleyn’s heart aches for what she’s destined to never possess—true love. Her fancy has been captured by the amorous attentions of a courtier named Henry Percy, but a jealous King Henry VIII thwarts their romance through the scheming Cardinal Wolsey. Anne’s fury abounds, unable to recover the love she’s lost, as the tyrannical King ignites his courtship with her, but she won’t give into him so easily. She’d rather lose her head than come to him willingly.
Where to Find This Story:
- Magazine of History & Fiction (December 2018, first publication)
Lady of the Rain
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About the Story: Patience is a spinster with an interest in Roman antiquities. However, being a woman in Victorian England, no man wishes to hear her theories on pagan goddesses and ancient lore—except for her uncle, an archaeologist returned from his most recent excavation. He brings with him an artistic masterpiece, a gift for Patience’s father, but as soon as the painting is carried into her family’s home, strange things begin to happen.
Where to Find This Story:
- Literary Yard (April 2019, first publication)
Life After Regret
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About the Story: Dain watches as his ladylove weds another. He wonders how he’ll go on with his life, as he’s certain he’ll never find another woman to equal his Estrilda.
Enoch is keen on winning a bet against his closest, and most annoying friend, Jeffrey. All he needs to do is enter a church rumored to be haunted.
Two men from different time periods connected by one place, Minsbridge Chapel, England, meet in this chilling tale.
Where to Find This Story:
- Periwinkle Literary Magazine (April 2020, first publication)
A Most Charming Couple
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About the Story: “My name is Seraphine Lovelace. I’m cursed and lonely. I wish to start again in a new home.”
Where to Find This Story:
- Corvid Queen (August 7, 2020)
On the Water’s Edge
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About the Story: Frederick Wilde was always running, whether it was from his father’s blows or the woman who loved him. His feet only stopped when he stumbled upon a lake buried deep in a forest. There, he saw a reflection—but it wasn’t his own.
Where to Find This Story:
- Fiction on the Web (November 9, 2018, first publication)
Our Dance
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About the Story: Lady Emmeline is a grief-stricken woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She knew passion once, long ago. Now, she suffers from the repercussions of her choices. When her childhood friend, Agatha, writes to her, her husband gives his consent for her to visit the home she hasn’t seen in years. There, she helps Agatha through the grief of her deceased brother, who happens to be her former lover. But he might not be as far away as Emmeline thinks, and he has a message for her to hear.
Where to Find This Story:
- The Scarlet Leaf Review (August 2018, first publication)
- The Magazine of History & Fiction (April 2019, republication)
Rose of the Sea
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About the Story: Set in a rural village in Victorian England, Kitty waits for her beloved, a poet and a dreamer, to return from London. He promised to return to her once he found success, but instead, she receives a letter about how distance has not made his love grow fonder. Kitty is crushed by his rejection, but an apparition, a woman in white, might guide her to the love and belonging she seeks…
Where to Find This Story:
- TWJ Magazine (April 2018 issue, first publication)
- Books ‘n Pieces Magazine (September 17, 2019, republication)
Rose Without A Thorn
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About the Story: Henry VIII is an ailing king blinded by the charms of his young, pretty wife, Catherine Howard. Catherine finds passion—and excitement—in the arms of her younger paramour, but a love letter forces this scandal from the shadows of her bedchambers to the politics of the Tudor court. Will Henry VIII believe his rose does indeed possess a thorn?
Where to Find This Story:
- Bold + Italic (July 2018 in first issue of B+I, first publication)
- Magazine of History & Fiction (August 2019, republication)
The Scent of Lavender
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About the Story: When a ghost appears at Thomas Haskett’s bedside, he believes it’s nothing more than an opium and alcohol-fueled nightmare—until he learns the next morning that his lover’s body was found beside the Drury Lane Theatre.
Where to Find This Story:
- Oklahoma Pagan Quarterly (Runner-Up in the 2019 Spooky Samhain Contest & published in the Spooky Samhain 2019 Edition of the magazine, first publication)
- Tales to Terrify podcast (Episode 441)
Secrets in the Poison
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About the Story: Nash Powell is poisoned before he makes it to the altar. Who murdered him? His mourning fiancé, his longtime friend, or his loving sister? The murderer might not be obvious, but one thing is certain—there’s secrets in the poison.
Where to Find This Story:
- Squawk Back (Feature story in Issue 181, December 2018, first publication)
- Twist in Time Magazine (July 2020, Issue 9)
To Own Her Body
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About the Story: Alexander Courtenay, the fourth Viscount Belgrave, is hellbent on marrying the bride of his choice while maintaining his reputation in English society—and at any cost.
Where to Find This Story:
- New Reader Magazine (September 2021)
- Underside Stories (January 14, 2023)
- Impspired (February 2023)
The Writer’s Glass Slipper
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About the Story: A grieving author with writer’s block rediscovers his creativity through a set of haunted spectacles.
Where to Find This Story:
- The Weird and Whatnot (April 2021)
When the Clock Stops
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About the Story: It starts with a tick—or when the clock ticks no more. Someone’s dead, a loved one close to you. But who can it be? You stare at the hands, no longer pivoting, frozen on the minute a soul left a body. But who’s soul? Who’s body? Only time—and Death—will unravel the answer, but if only you could count the seconds.
Where to Find This Story:
- Ariel Chart (November 2018, first publication)
- Academy of the Heart and Mind (December 1st, 2019, republished)
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