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Cover artwork for the Inescapable March by Hana Carolina
Cover artwork for the Inescapable March by Hana Carolina
The Inescapable March

Spaceboy Books LLC (March 28, 2025)

Arran, a widely feared warrior-mage who can manipulate time and space, and his best friend, Hyacinth, an almost-famous actor and talented singer adored by (too) many, find themselves trapped in a recurring nightmare ending with their deaths.

Separated amid a blood-soaked war, they keep meeting again, lost in a hazy space between winter and spring, dream and reality, friendship and love.

Black and white photo of cat
Black and white photo of cat
The Cellar

2022 Crow & Cross Keys online literary journal.

Set in Lodz, Poland, in the 1990s, it’s a creepy horror story exploring the atmosphere of a crumbling post-industrial city and the feeling of entrapment it creates. People are as neglected as the stray cats turned nightmarish monsters. Then again, are these creatures even real? Perhaps it’s all in your head, there’s no threat, and you’re making a fuss for no good reason.

A picture of a white heart monitor typically found in hospital or surgery rooms it has black background on screen with bright green charts and graphs indicating patient vitals
A picture of a white heart monitor typically found in hospital or surgery rooms it has black background on screen with bright green charts and graphs indicating patient vitals
One Chance in a Million

Every Day Fiction (November 2022)

The end of 2022 was a busy time for me so I started writing very short stories – this one is just 100 words long. This Sci-fi micro about a faulty AI-generated report, was written right before discussions about AI started in earnest. Set at a hospital, and intended as satire, feels a little less fun now.

Published in Everyday Fiction in November 2022, it was my first paid publication (whole $3), and an a gateway to a big, established audience – this journal has existed since 2007 and has a lot of subscribers.

Dungeon and dragons model that looks like a sea suid creature with wings
Dungeon and dragons model that looks like a sea suid creature with wings
We Aced Colonisation

The 100 Word Project in February 2023

Another 100-word Sci-Fi story, this time about aliens invading the Earth. It was a bit of an experiment – I played with language a bit, trying to write as an alien would, if they’ve just learnt English.

Published in Issue 3 of The 100 Word Project in February 2023, it got such a warm and supportive welcome from Jay Chesters, the Editor and Designer.

Winter Blooming Daphne (1,000 words; literary fiction)
Winter Blooming Daphne (1,000 words; literary fiction)
Winter Blooming Daphne (1,000 words; literary fiction)

Five on the Fifth (May 2023)

When Daphne moves to the country with her terminally ill husband, she is expected to find peace in nature and meaning in suffering. But as the garden withers and the wilderness bares its teeth, she learns that mercy—like beauty—can be poisonous. A slow-burning tale of death, denial, and the strange freedom that comes with rot.

Come Back Home (2,000 words; literary horror)
Come Back Home (2,000 words; literary horror)
Come Back Home (2,000 words; literary horror)

The Chamber Magazine (July 2023)

Black Sheep Magazine, Issue 4 (October 2023)

A woman who escaped a haunted past finds herself drawn back to the house where her family died. A story about being trapped between ambition and tradition—and the difference between a haunted house and a haunted home.

The Lonely Princess (2,500 words; fairy-tale)
The Lonely Princess (2,500 words; fairy-tale)
The Lonely Princess (2,500 words; fairy-tale)

 Defenestration Magazine (December 2023)

When the noble Sir Gregor saves Princess Flora from a series of increasingly absurd assassination attempts, she begins to fall for him—and his path into the royal family seems smooth and certain. But his true love, a hot-tempered, overly attached, and wildly dramatic troubadour, refuses to be written out of the story. With poisoned apples and repressed emotions flying, this twist on the well-known tale gives queerness the centre stage in a classic romantic myth.

The Perfect Homogeny (1,200 words; literary horror)
The Perfect Homogeny (1,200 words; literary horror)
The Perfect Homogeny (1,200 words; literary horror)

The Kaidankai Podcast (February 2024)

It Always Finds Me, Querencia Press Horror Anthology (April 2024)

In a candlelit palace crowded with oil paintings and expectations, a young queen is crushed under the weight of her role. As the court prays for an heir, the grotesque fantasy of perfect succession reveals itself for what it truly is. A gothic tale of splendour, sickness, and sovereign horror—where beauty, purity, and legacy are preserved at the cost of everything human.

The Fruit of Life (1,000 words; fairy-tale)
The Fruit of Life (1,000 words; fairy-tale)
The Fruit of Life (1,000 words; fairy-tale)

Suburban Witchcraft Magazine, Issue 5 (May 2024)

Two sisters, one orchard, and a contest. While Laura labours over her apple trees with love and care, Victoria arrives at the market with nothing but confidence and charm.

A darkly comic parable about meritocracy—and what it really takes to succeed under capitalism.

Neither Fish Nor Flesh (6,800 words; literary horror)
Neither Fish Nor Flesh (6,800 words; literary horror)
Neither Fish Nor Flesh (6,800 words; literary horror)

Night Picnic Journal (June 2024)

A tragic sapphic love story with a gothic horror heart, set in Victorian Montrose, Scotland. Constance, a struggling actress, is content to remain a shadow in the life of a well-known socialite—until one final humiliation pushes her too far. As class, love, and rage entwine, Constance manages to transform every disadvantage into a strength—but in the end, must decide whether the world is truly as cruel to her as she has been taught to be to herself.

Just Keep Swimming (1,000 words; literary fiction)
Just Keep Swimming (1,000 words; literary fiction)
Just Keep Swimming (1,000 words; literary fiction)

BRUISER (August 2023)

Charting a series of near-drownings across childhood and adolescence, the narrator weaves between awe, indifference, and the illusion of control. A meditation on memory, mortality, and the human need to narrate chaos as if it were progress.

Oblivion (100 words; literary horror)
Oblivion (100 words; literary horror)
Oblivion (100 words; literary horror)

The Horror Tree (August 2023)

Inspired by the derelict Lennox Castle Hospital, it evokes the voices lost to history—among rooms left to rot and a staircase that now leads only to the stars.

Steam (9 minutes, audio; literary horror)
Steam (9 minutes, audio; literary horror)
Steam (9 minutes, audio; literary horror)

The Kaidankai Podcast (August 2024)

A story about a woman who swims in the cold depths of the sea, and her partner on sunburnt land who wants her to breathe again. But does he know what’s best for her?

Steam explores grief, love, control, and what happens when two worlds collide.

The Life Experience Ltd. (3,800 words; science fiction)
The Life Experience Ltd. (3,800 words; science fiction)
The Life Experience Ltd. (3,800 words; science fiction)

Schlock! Webzine, Vol 19 Issue 6 (July 2025)

Rosalie wants a university education, but at the offices of a company that sells curated life experiences, she learns her future has already been market-tested, audience-optimised, and priced out of reach.

A bleak satire about the commodification of selfhood in a world where normalcy is a luxury and real life belongs to the rich.

The Heart of the Matter (1,100 words; steampunk)
The Heart of the Matter (1,100 words; steampunk)
The Heart of the Matter (1,100 words; steampunk)

Wily Winchester Literary Magazine (August 2025)

In Edinburgh, 1895, Dr. Peter Braw performs a groundbreaking operation: replacing the failing heart of Douglas Key Grant, 7th Duke of York, with a mechanical marvel of his own invention. Lauded as a miracle of science, the procedure binds physician and patient in ways neither can escape. What follows is a story of invention and erasure, of forbidden love and public legacy, where the line between progress and tragedy is as thin as a heartbeat.

Timeless Sympathy (900 words; literary horror)
Timeless Sympathy (900 words; literary horror)
Timeless Sympathy (900 words; literary horror)

Literally Stories (September 2025)

In a crumbling house where the living and the dead share quiet evenings by the fire, a tired woman finds comfort in the wrong kind of company. Timeless Sympathy is a literary horror flash about burnout, the limits of empathy, and the cost of not being able to see beyond our own point of view.