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By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 45 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 28 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 19 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 35 My submissions were a bit slower in August, though I don’t have a lot of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 […]
dawn.vogel | June 18, 2026
“Propagating Rosa glacies” and “The Glass Cauldron Shattered” are two of the flash fiction pieces in Chimerical Remembrances, which fit nicely together, as they share a theme of magical revenge. “Propagating Rosa glacies” is written from the perspective of a botanist giving advice on growing a particularly finicky plant. Their most important pieces of advice are tied to […]
dawn.vogel | May 26, 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! “It’s My Party and […]
dawn.vogel | May 21, 2026
The Sun tarot card represents the success, joy, and vitality. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a flash fiction piece. The haiku, named “a victory won” after the first line, embodies the first of the meanings of the Sun tarot card, success. The flash fiction piece, “The […]
