dawn.vogel | January 13, 2026
The Devil tarot card represents being trapped and negative attachments. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a microfiction piece. The haiku, “a strong appeal of” (after its first line), eschews the hoarding of wealth, a theme echoed in the microfiction piece, “Chrysopoeia.” The latter piece features a […]
dawn.vogel | December 31, 2025
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor’s collection So You Want to be a Robot (Robot Dinosaur Press, 2024) contains 22 fabulous speculative fiction stories with queer and neurodiverse characters living their lives and dealing with the world around them, which is not always kind. Normally, when I review an anthology or collection, I talk a bit about specific stories […]
dawn.vogel | December 30, 2025
I’ve had quite a few stories and poems out this year, so here’s a recap of things I’ve published that are eligible for awards consideration! Short Stories “One Person’s Nightmare,” Rescuing Curiosity (2,500 words, contemporary fantasy) “It Can’t Be Sunday Everywhere at Once,” Rescuing Curiosity (3,200 words, sci-fi) “Last Dam Standing,” Analog July/August 2025 (3,000 words, sci-fi/climate change) […]
dawn.vogel | December 18, 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! “Gosutouotchi” and “Remote Control” […]
dawn.vogel | December 11, 2025
The Temperance tarot card represents patience, balance, moderation, and harmony. However, it also has an association with art and blending opposites. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a poem. The haiku, named after the first line, “art that walks careful,” touches on the dangers of hewing to […]
dawn.vogel | December 3, 2025
T. Kingfisher’s What Moves the Dead (Tor Nightfire, 2022) is, at its core, a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” This novella takes the classic tale and puts a new spin on it, lending something of an explanation to the original while taking it in an amazingly cool direction! Rather […]
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 […]
