dawn.vogel | October 15, 2024
My short story “Under the Bed” was one that took me a long time to get just right. I had the idea for a young girl whose family had fallen victim to a horrific monster that spared her for some time. It wasn’t until I figured out the second character in the story, the now-teen […]
Category: Publishing |
No Comments »
Tags: affiliate link, dark contemporary fantasy, short story, The Sidewalk Diverges, young adult
dawn.vogel | August 13, 2024
“Black Thumb” started life as a poem, which I revised into a microfiction piece. The general premise remained the same–scientists looking for a plant that the unnamed protagonist couldn’t kill–but it served as a demonstration of how some free verse (or non-formal) poetry and some very short forms of fiction are closely related to one […]
Category: Publishing |
No Comments »
Tags: affiliate link, Black Thumb, contemporary fantasy, microfiction, poetry, The Sidewalk Diverges
dawn.vogel | June 11, 2024
“Not Their Real Names” is a semi-humorous flash fiction piece involving a heist from the perspective of the person running the operation as she deals with her hired crew. I made use of a pretty clever trick in this story by nicknaming the characters after pop culture personalities and characters, because by doing so, I […]
Category: Publishing |
No Comments »
Tags: affiliate link, contemporary fantasy, flash fiction, Not Their Real Names, The Sidewalk Diverges
dawn.vogel | April 9, 2024
“Be Inspired” is a slipstream contemporary fantasy flash fiction story about a woman dealing with an unpleasant romantic relationship and how she emerges from that situation. I can’t say too much else about the story without giving it away, though it does involve the aurora borealis in an unusual location! “Be Inspired” is one of […]
Category: Publishing |
No Comments »
Tags: affiliate link, Be Inspired, contemporary fantasy, flash fiction, slipstream, The Sidewalk Diverges
dawn.vogel | March 14, 2024
I’ve had a number of new and reprinted urban fantasy pieces come out since my last post on the subject. Here’s where you can find them! My flash fiction piece “The Train Station That Knows What You Need” is a somewhat surreal, slipstream story about a train station in Japan, which was published in Cafe […]
Category: Publishing |
No Comments »
Tags: affiliate link, contemporary fantasy, cross and circle, dark contemporary fantasy, Dinosaur Seeds, intercity illusions, promise me nothing, publishing, The Sidewalk Diverges, The Train Station That Knows What You Need, urban fantasy, volatile figments
dawn.vogel | February 20, 2024
“Consequence” is a drabble, exactly 100 words, in which a superhero is faced with a choice about her power. I can’t say more about it than that, without giving away too much of the story! “Consequence” originally appeared at Martian: The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, but it’s also available in The Sidewalk Diverges.
Category: Publishing |
No Comments »
Tags: affiliate link, contemporary fantasy, drabble, superhero, The Sidewalk Diverges
dawn.vogel | December 26, 2023
I can always remember where I got my weirdest ideas, and it’s almost always that someone misread, misheard, or misinterpreted something. “The Dame with the Boots” was definitely one of these cases. I think it was something about a pool shark, and for whatever reason, I pictured an actual shark playing pool, and somehow, that […]
Category: Publishing |
No Comments »
Tags: affiliate link, contemporary fantasy, noir, Noir Detective, short story, The Dame with the Boots, The Sidewalk Diverges
dawn.vogel | October 24, 2023
My microfiction story, “I Need a Hero,” is a look at a forgotten god who finds herself in need of a champion for the modern age, and finds a way to locate that champion and retain them. Because it’s so short, there’s not much else I can say about it, other than to note that […]
Category: Publishing |
No Comments »
Tags: affiliate link, contemporary fantasy, I Need a Hero, short story, The Sidewalk Diverges
dawn.vogel | August 22, 2023
My story “Five Days After” is one of the many stories that I first had the idea for while riding the bus in Seattle. Bus commuting is normally fairly quiet and boring. Many of the people on the bus are just trying to get to and from their day jobs. But sometimes you overhear interesting […]
Category: Publishing |
No Comments »
Tags: affiliate link, Five Days After, seattle, short story, The Sidewalk Diverges
dawn.vogel | July 13, 2023
I’ve had a number of new and reprinted urban fantasy pieces come out since my last post on the subject. Here’s where you can find them! “Hashtag TPE,” which originally appeared in It Came from Miskatonic University, was reprinted in LOLCraft: A Compendium of Eldritch Humor. This is an entertaining look at a college campus tour when […]
Category: Publishing |
No Comments »
Tags: affiliate link, contemporary fantasy, cross and circle, dark contemporary fantasy, intercity illusions, promise me nothing, publishing, The Sidewalk Diverges, urban fantasy, volatile figments