dawn.vogel | October 22, 2026
My story “Queen of the Roller Disco” in This Book Has Ghosts in It is a flash fiction piece I wrote back in 2023, with the inspiration of being “a place you love is haunted” and a list of words that included “skate,” which immediately jumped out at me. From 2010-2012, I was first a referee […]
dawn.vogel | October 6, 2026
“Evergreen” and “The Magic Matters” are two very short stories in Chimerical Remembrance. “Evergreen” is flash fiction, and “The Magic Matters” is microfiction. What these two stories have in common is that they’re about family relationships that have major or minor issues. “Evergreen” involves the relationship between a non-binary adult child and their terminally ill mother, […]
dawn.vogel | September 29, 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! “I Won’t Open My […]
dawn.vogel | September 8, 2026
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 45 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 28 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 19 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 35 My submissions were a bit slower in August, though I don’t have a lot of reasons why that was the […]
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 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 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 9, 2026
“Progress” is a flash fiction piece about a haunted mall … or is it? The story begins: “Some people say the mall is haunted, but most of those people don’t know just how right they are. She’s not a ghost, though, just an unclassifiable being. She lives in the hidden spaces in the underbelly of […]
dawn.vogel | June 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! “Spun Sugar” and […]
