dawn.vogel | April 29, 2025
As we’re getting closer to May, I’m thinking about Mermay and my collection What If I’m a Merfolk? While not all of the pieces included in this collection were written during Mermay, a large amount of the poetry was, using the daily prompts as my inspiration for each piece. This let me write a bunch of […]
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dawn.vogel | April 24, 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! “How Far You’ll […]
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dawn.vogel | April 22, 2025
“Pivot Hinge” started out as a story about something that was hidden in plain sight, paired with a random quote that is lost to the ages. I originally called the story “Let My Love Open the Door,” and the earliest draft involved a film, which eventually morphed into an album and a music video. The […]
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dawn.vogel | April 17, 2025
Since my last post of recent fantasy stories and poetry, I’ve had a few new fantasy pieces come out! My Weathering Youth collection spans many genres, but the core of it involves fantasy stories, including some that are in the “traditional” (or non-contemporary) fantasy genre, like “Charming, Not Useful,” a somewhat ridiculous flash fiction take on […]
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dawn.vogel | April 15, 2025
My collection, Coast to Coast Stars, came out almost five years ago! It’s got five short stories set in Cobalt City and Cerulean City, with the former on the East Coast and the latter on the West Coast. Four of the stories are set in Cerulean City, but one of them, “Happily Never After,” features a […]
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dawn.vogel | April 8, 2025
My first novel, Brass and Glass: The Cask of Cranglimmering came out almost exactly eight years ago. Even though that’s quite some time ago, and I’ve accomplished a lot more writing goals since, I’m still proud of this novel! Though I don’t write as much steampunk any more, I enjoyed the worldbuilding and character development for […]
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dawn.vogel | April 1, 2025
I had a TON of new pieces out in March 2025, including poetry, drabbles, flash fiction, and short stories! My flash fiction story, “Propagating Rosa glacies,” appeared in issue 12 of ALOCASIA. This is a flash fiction piece written as a gardening article (with a teaser for a future article at the end). It’s a bit dark […]
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dawn.vogel | March 27, 2025
When I initially published Unfixed Timelines, I had a vague idea that I would do more of these collections. Still, I didn’t add a “1” onto the title, as that seemed a little odd to me. The second and third volumes, of course, have numbers, which now makes the first volume stand out a little bit […]
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dawn.vogel | March 26, 2025
Cursed Shards: Tales of Dark Folklore, edited by Leanbh Pearson (IFWG Publishing International, 2024), is an anthology with ten stories that each contain a shard of a broken mirror at the core of their premise. Some stories touch on well-known folklore, while others use more obscure myths and legends as their core. The stories are […]
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dawn.vogel | March 25, 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! “Just a Dollar” and […]
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