Drabbledark II

Tatterdemalion appears in Luna Station Quarterly’s 50th issue

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Hello, hello, hello. I am so pleased to be writing this post. When I first started seriously submitting my stories, I found Luna Station Quarterly and I fell in love. I watched them talk on some online panels and decided I wanted to see if I could sneak a little story through their door. I didn’t realise when I submitted that, if successful, I would end up in such a special issue!

“Tatterdemalion” is a story that started its life as a round one NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge entry and I was unsure it would ever find a home, though I love it dearly. Luckily, Jen and the team at LSQ loved it too!

I have included a little tiny snippet below for your enjoyment. If you like it, you can read the rest here for free! Alternatively, LSQ is available in print and ebook.

I can’t wait to dig into the rest of the issue.

Not so long ago, a cruel wind swept through the little village, up the little hill and in through the door of the farmhouse—which had always been swinging to and fro with villagers and their children, farm cats and their kittens, and the odd strange little visitor from the woods nearby. It brought with it a fever and, before it went, scooped her husband up and carried him far away.

She buried him beneath the apple tree.

— ELOU CARROLL, “TATTERDEMALION, OR OF APPLE BOUGH AND STRAW”
LUNA STATION QUARTERLY, ISSUE 050

In other news, Drabbledark Volume II is now available for purchase! If you like tiny stories, Drabbledark has 100 all-new 100-word stories for your enjoyment.

Happy reading!

Drabbledark II Table of Contents announced!

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There is something incredibly exciting about seeing the contents list of a publication for the first time—for so long, you’re a house on a hill, far away from civilisation and then, suddenly, you’re in the middle of a village, and it’s real. It’s always wonderful to learn that you’re surrounded by friends. When Shacklebound Books revealed the contents list for Drabbledark – An Anthology of Dark Drabbles: Volume II this weekend, I recognised so many of the names listed that it felt a little bit like coming home.

That’s a dramatic thing to say, but I stand by it.

My tiny story, “Beside a Cemetery, a Stone Wall, a Skeletal Tree”, will be appearing alongside work by Taylor Rae, Tea Riffo, Ai Jiang, Antony Frost, Emma Louise Gill, Patrick Barb, Vanessa Jae, Chelsea Pumpkins, TJ Price, Carson Winter, Stephanie Parent, and so many other writers that I’ve had the pleasure of meeting through the brilliant writing community (and horror community) on Twitter and elsewhere. It’s the first time I’ve been acquainted with a solid chunk of my co-contributors and, I can’t lie to you, it feels really good.

Drabbledark – An Anthology of Dark Drabbles: Volume II is going to be an excellent book for dipping in and out of—each story is its own little mouthful—and I cannot wait to read it.

Set for release on June 1st, you can preorder the anthology on Kindle by clicking here. If paper is more your style, you will be able to order the anthology in print when it’s released.