dawn.vogel | July 15, 2025
I’ve had a few new post-apocalyptic stories out since my last post on the topic! “Child’s Play,” published in Bullet Points in October 2024, involves interplanetary travel to a world in which survivors have taken up residence in a reinforced junkyard and an injured person on the run encounters some of the young residents of that […]
dawn.vogel | January 1, 2025
Cristina Jurado’s ChloroPhilia (originally published in Spanish as CloroFilia in 2017; English edition, Apex Book Company, 2025) is a dystopian novella with elements of body and post-apocalyptic horror, with a strong focus on the characters. The novella opens with a pair of prologue chapters that introduce the reader to the situation in the world and an unnamed […]
dawn.vogel | November 28, 2024
My collection of dystopian science-fiction, Dead-Starred Futures, includes seventeen poems, which range across time and space. There are a couple of poems that look at the climate change crisis on Earth, including “Elemental Crisis” and “Temperance Lost”. There are many more poems that look at science-fictional future wars (like “Last Stand” and “Under Siege”) or colonization […]
dawn.vogel | October 29, 2024
My collection of dystopian science fiction, Dead-Starred Futures, included a handful of drabbles, stories told in exactly 100 words. All five of these stories were also reprints, which saw their initial publications in a variety of venues. “Litany” was a piece inspired by an abandoned building covered in graffiti that was presented to us in a […]
dawn.vogel | October 17, 2024
I’ve had just a few post-apocalyptic stories out since my last post on the topic! My drabble “Dead Planet” appeared in Drabbledark III from Shacklebound Books in March 2024. This is a bit of a sci-fi post-apocalyptic story, looking at the remnants of Earth after alien contact. My collection A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, which […]
dawn.vogel | September 26, 2024
My story “Hearts in Motion” was based on a contest prompt. On the surface, it doesn’t seem entirely speculative, though it does envision a post-climate change world in which two factions are at odds with each other. And while that might seem all too plausible, I truly hope that the world will not go in […]
dawn.vogel | August 27, 2024
“The Price” is a short flash fiction piece that deals with a weighty subject–in a world impacted by climate change and rising sea levels, what price might someone be willing to pay to save other peoples’ lives. The prompt for this story came from the Furious Fiction Flash Challenge (write a flash fiction story of […]
dawn.vogel | June 13, 2024
If you like to read spookier pieces, here’s some of my recent horror and dark publications! Unfixed Timelines 3 includes several historical fiction pieces with darker themes, including “Charcoals from an Unidentified Chicago Artist” and “Green-Eyed Phantom.” Though neither of these are horror, they definitely delve into the darker side of history and fiction. My […]
dawn.vogel | March 26, 2024
“Light for Life” is a microfiction story that looks at a world in which growing plants has become a difficult proposition and the sorts of trades a person needs to make to be able to grow food. It’s certainly a dystopic world, but it also reflects places in our world in which climate change has […]
dawn.vogel | February 29, 2024
“When Science and the Gods Fail” is a microfiction story about a robot who takes matters into their own hands when calamity strikes. However, since this is one of my darker sci-fi stories … well, I’ll let you guess at the ending, but I won’t say anything more than that. “When Science and the Gods […]
