dawn.vogel | July 16, 2026
“We Don’t Stop for Gas in Arkansas” came from a former roommate of mine, who had gone on a road trip from southern Illinois to Texas for the wedding of one of his closest friends. As he and his wife headed to the event, he occasionally posted photos to Facebook, along with “Chapter #”. I […]
dawn.vogel | July 14, 2026
My latest collection, Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman, with cover art by Luke Spooner/Carrion House, is out from DefConOne Publishing today! Since the founding of Cobalt City, there has been a Huntsman protecting its citizens. However, the women of the Castile family have never been allowed to bear the mantle more than […]
dawn.vogel | July 9, 2026
“Progress” is a flash fiction piece about a haunted mall … or is it? The story begins: “Some people say the mall is haunted, but most of those people don’t know just how right they are. She’s not a ghost, though, just an unclassifiable being. She lives in the hidden spaces in the underbelly of […]
dawn.vogel | June 30, 2026
Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection! “Spun Sugar” and […]
dawn.vogel | June 25, 2026
The Judgement tarot card represents rebirth, awakening, and absolution. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a poem. The haiku, titled “one shouldn’t pass their” after the first line, deals with judgement on a more practical level. The poem, “On the Ocean,” is a cento sonnet, or a […]
dawn.vogel | June 23, 2026
“Homecoming” is the first story in This Book Has Ghosts in It and includes elements of my ongoing interest in writing about the dangers of deep water. Though this story isn’t one of my “things in the water that want you dead” stories, there’s certainly something strange about the water and the town it touches. The […]
dawn.vogel | June 18, 2026
“Propagating Rosa glacies” and “The Glass Cauldron Shattered” are two of the flash fiction pieces in Chimerical Remembrances, which fit nicely together, as they share a theme of magical revenge. “Propagating Rosa glacies” is written from the perspective of a botanist giving advice on growing a particularly finicky plant. Their most important pieces of advice are tied to […]
dawn.vogel | June 16, 2026
Have you checked out Bounty of the Atoll? It’s a fantastical history novella that mashes up bits of two fairy tales, plus a couple of essays about the setting and history. And it’s got gorgeous cover art from Kloudinthesky! Far from Spain, there are rumors of a beautiful princess held prisoner by a witch and […]
dawn.vogel | June 11, 2026
My next collection, Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman, will be out from DefConOne Publishing on July 14! This collection takes two of my published Sarah Castile stories and adds a third, unpublished story to the mix. All three stories are set in the post-World War II era, with two in Europe and one […]
dawn.vogel | May 28, 2026
“Knock Three Times” is one of the longer stories in my Chimerical Remembrance collection. It was inspired by a YouTube video about weird history, some interesting images, and a song I love. The YouTube video was about the history of Pheasant Island, which is an uninhabited island in the Bidasoa River between France and Spain that […]
