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 […]
dawn.vogel | July 21, 2026
The World tarot card represents wholeness, completion, and achievement. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a poem. The haiku, titled “reinvent yourself” after the first line, embodies all three of the meanings above. Meanwhile, the poem, “Pieced,” is an autobiographical look at my parents and grandparents and […]
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 […]
