dawn.vogel | June 1, 2023
Volatile Figments is one of my earliest collections, but I still love all of the stories included in it. It’s six dark contemporary fantasy stories featuring female protagonists dealing with eldritch gods, muses, ghouls, and mad scientists. Dani finds the new director in her college theater department more than a little unnerving, but she has […]
dawn.vogel | May 30, 2023
“The Shell Game” started out as a flash fiction piece, but it quickly became apparent that there was more to the story than would fit within the bounds of flash. It’s still a relatively short story, but it needed the extra room to breathe and really make the heist work. And that is, in essence, […]
dawn.vogel | May 25, 2023
“The House Provides” is a story I’ve been trying to write for years. It started out with a very solid and creepy image, and I have pages of notes on what I wanted to do with it. In the end, though, I wound up with a different story than I’d imagined, though it still has […]
dawn.vogel | May 23, 2023
I started writing “Wishes without a Birthday Cake” in a writing workshop with K. Tempest Bradford that involved her asking a question to begin the story, followed by additional questions to shape the story as we wrote. While the end result of that exercise needed some editing after all of the free-writing, it turned into […]
dawn.vogel | May 18, 2023
I have two post-apocalyptic novellas: Barren and Scenes from a Quiet Apocalypse. The former is an apocalypse that hit within the main character’s lifetime, but as an older protagonist, she’s lived in a post-apocalyptic world for longer than she spent in the pre-apocalyptic world. The latter is an immediately recent apocalypse, one that hits just […]
dawn.vogel | May 16, 2023
My next collection of short stories and poetry is a steampunk and gaslamp fantasy collection, containing a variety of tones and topics. It’s called Wreathed in Steam, it’s due out on June 18th, and it’s available for pre-order now! Clockworks, airships, and more! Wreathed in Steam contains stories and poetry in the steampunk and gaslamp fantasy realms, with […]
dawn.vogel | May 4, 2023
I didn’t have any new stories out in April this year, so let’s do a round-up of some of my spring-themed publications instead! “Fiddle in the Middle,” which originally appeared in MYTHIC Magazine, is set in spring in Seattle. It’s the story of two sisters working through their differences to get along and stop the people […]
dawn.vogel | April 27, 2023
“When you’re washing the dinner dishes, you’re not expecting an explosion. Unless you’re me, in which case you’re more surprised to discover said explosion wasn’t directed at you.” Sarah Castile, part of the Cobalt City Castile family that takes up the mantle of The Huntsman, is a superhero mostly by dint of having gotten out […]
dawn.vogel | April 25, 2023
“There Is No I in Heavenly Host” was 100 percent written on a quasi-dare. The editors for a special speculative fiction issue of Friends Journal mentioned wanting to see a story in which a biblically accurate angel dealt with having their name misspelled on their coffee order. So I wrote it. And they loved it. This […]
dawn.vogel | April 20, 2023
My story “Unconventional Soulmates” came directly from the idea of “what if someone used magic to locate their soulmate, but the soulmate the magic found wasn’t at all who they were expecting?” In this story, which flips back and forth from the POV of the seeker and the found, I also explore how soulmates from […]
