Another One for the Books

Here we are at the end of another year, and once again I managed to get a few things done. Despite the chaos running unchecked in the world, 2025 saw nine of my stories make it to print, and the sales of several more that will be out next year.

What stands out for me as I compile this list is how many flash fiction pieces I did this year. I’m becoming quite fond of the form. There’s something to be said for working within strict word count limits.

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I started the year with my M.R. James-inspired piece, Above, and Beyond, in Weird Fiction Quarterly: Ghosts 2025. Next was a take on vampires with Till He Has Suffered from The Night in Dracula Beyond Stoker Issue 6: Jonathan Harker. Birdsong, a story long in search of a home found one in the Intergalactic Rejects anthology.

My post-apocalyptic drabble To Build a Fire appeared in The Horror Tree: Trembling With Fear, while another flash piece made the cut at Weird Fiction Quarterly;  Nothing of Him that Doth Fade was in WFQ: The King in Yellow 2025. My historical weird story set in Northern Italy, Borders, was included in the anthology A Darker Continent: Strange Tales of Europe at War.

Lights Out,  a bit of microfiction, won Tales to Terrify’s Halloween contest and appeared in Episode 718, and Antediluvian, another flash piece, appeared in the inaugural issue of New Weird & Decadent: The London Lovecraft Review. Rounding out the assortment, my fungal horror story Primordium  sprouted up in Nightmare Magazine #158.

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I will have several new stories coming out in 2026, including one in Suffering the Others, a charity anthology supporting RAICES and the Transgender Law Center coming in February from Dim Shores that you absolutely need to get.

Wishing everyone peace in the new year and, as ever, updates to follow.