dawn.vogel | September 17, 2026
A lot of the stories within Chimerical Remembrance come from personal experiences, though in general, the details have been changed substantially. “A Remnant of the Past” is one such story. The setting of the story is my first apartment, which was allegedly used as a morgue during the Civil War. However, when I did a bit […]
dawn.vogel | September 15, 2026
My latest collection, Unfixed Timelines 4: Essays and Short Stories of a History That Never Was, will be released by DefCon One Publishing on October 13! A young Mary Shelley learning about scientific experiments to reanimate the dead, the ghosts of two brothers helping a living girl outwit a fraudulent psychic, memories of an heirloom quilt, […]
dawn.vogel | September 1, 2026
“Hollow” is a flash fiction story that plays with how our perceptions can color the idea of “the end of the world.” In this case, it’s a little bit horror, a little bit apocalyptic, and definitely dark contemporary fantasy. I wrote this story as part of a horror writing course I was taking from Nino […]
dawn.vogel | August 27, 2026
My collection, Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman, came out just over a month ago. It collects two previously published Sarah Castile stories, plus one that’s only available in this collection currently. The stories follow Sarah’s European adventures in “Red Scare” and “Der Schwarze Wolf von Piz Bernina,” while “Nochevieja” is set in Cobalt […]
dawn.vogel | August 25, 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! “Kindred Souls” is a […]
dawn.vogel | August 21, 2026
On Monday, I posted the blank version of the tenth prompt in the Big Pink Book, which had themes of joy and happiness. Of course, I had to take it in a different direction. A while back, I wrote a drabble titled “Tarot Esoterica: The Black Lagoon,” which appeared in This Book Has Ghosts in It. […]
dawn.vogel | August 20, 2026
Chimerical Remembrance has five poems included in it, alongside contemporary fantasy flash fiction and short stories. They cover a variety of topics, but many of them involve social commentary through a contemporary fantasy lens. “The Cold, Strange Globe” was a poem inspired by an image of a glass sphere and a winter scene, which I […]
dawn.vogel | August 12, 2026
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Ballantine Books, 2021) isn’t quite like most of the books I read and review here. But the title caught my eye, as did the description of the book. While this book isn’t explicitly speculative, there are certainly some elements that seem as though they’re not exactly mundane, […]
dawn.vogel | August 4, 2026
“Autumn Days and Autumn Nights” is a flash fiction piece that involves a necromancer and a graveyard, but that somehow winds up being a fairly sweet and cozy piece. The unnamed necromancer raises the dead, sure, but she also respects and cares for the dead. It’s possibly one of the less creepy stories in this […]
dawn.vogel | July 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! “Penny White and […]
