dawn.vogel | November 20, 2025
My story “Best of Both Worlds” in Chimerical Remembrance is one of my favorite stories I’ve written. It manages to blend dark elements of a selkie story with a hopeful ending. If you’re a regular reader of the blog or my stories, you know I enjoy writing stories with things in the water that want […]
dawn.vogel | October 30, 2025
While most of the stories in Unfixed Timelines 3 are set in the United States, I have a few pieces that are set elsewhere in the world. “Eyes of Fire, Eyes of Smoke” is the story of a mother and daughter set in the Andes of South America and relies heavily on the legends of the […]
dawn.vogel | October 28, 2025
My collection, Chimerical Remembrance: Tales of Contemporary Fantasy, has been out for just over a month now! Within its pages, you’ll find microfiction, flash fiction, short stories, and poetry, with a mix of moods and themes. There are supernatural creatures, unusual places, and a variety of professions, all in settings that look a lot like the […]
dawn.vogel | October 23, 2025
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! “Salt Circle” and […]
dawn.vogel | October 21, 2025
The Death tarot card represents transitions, new beginnings, and change. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a flash fiction piece. The haiku, “Scorching summer heat” (titled after the first line), is a fantastical twist on changing seasons. The flash fiction piece, “The Arroyo Fiasco,” follows a geyser […]
dawn.vogel | October 16, 2025
Since my last post about my superhero fiction, I have a couple of new things out. First off, my novella Sure Shot in Cobalt City: Homecoming came out in March. This novella is a stand-alone sequel to Sure Shot in Las Capas: The Case of the Absent Star. The two books can be read independently of each […]
dawn.vogel | October 14, 2025
The Sidewalk Diverges includes 19 poems, which means that poetry pieces are more than half the pieces in this collection. While they all include aspects of contemporary fantasy, their themes and subjects range wildly. Some, like “Agent 355” and “City of Sounds” were inspired by things I saw and heard in Seattle, just going about […]
dawn.vogel | October 2, 2025
I had a couple of new drabbles out in September, both from Reach Your Apex! The first was “Aurora Dolofonos,” in which the appearance of the aurora comes with something a bit more sinister. The second was “Anti-Icarus,” in which a promising invention doesn’t account for a key factor!
dawn.vogel | September 30, 2025
Conceits of Whim and Fancy isn’t really a collection of spooky stories, but it does involve a lot of supernatural creatures, like witches, familiars, faeries, skeletal warriors, goblins, and liches. The majority of the stories in this collection are kid friendly, as well, which makes this collection a fun one to share with little ones […]
dawn.vogel | September 25, 2025
When I reached the point at which Brass and Glass became a trilogy, I had to sit down to outline the entire series. With one book under my belt, and two more planned, I needed to figure out how to sustain the overall story across three books but also make each book able to stand on […]
