Hello, I'm a short story writer, fiction podcaster, and book author. 👋🏽 You can read my short genre fiction on my site or listen to it in my podcast. New stories weekly. ***FIND IT ALL AT STORYFEATHER.COM *** Genres: science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, fables, mythology, and occasionally, horror. Follow me on Pinterest to see soothing art progression videos. Or read previous issues of my email publication, the Storyfeather Gazette, to learn more about my stories and about me. (This profile page of mine is just the tip of the iceberg. I invite you to explore any of the links that interest you below. 🧐 Choose high jinks 🤓.)
Storyfeather Gazette: Ghastly things lurk in a warlock's abandoned tower, a house where a young wife mysteriously perished, and a communal laundry room
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October 2025 Issue 1 In this issue: Short stories and podcast episodes from the first half of October, and appreciation for a common household spider. WHEN YOUR OWN HOME IS SPOOKY 🕷(Arachnophobes might want to skip ahead.) We have cellar spiders where I live, sometimes called daddy long-legs. I've seen them do amazing things. I watched one rappel down the side of my bathroom wall, suddenly slip, swing a little, quickly steady itself, and continue down. I don't know anything about climbing, but I wondered if the spider had a second dragline it used to stop itself from swinging helplessly back and forth. 🤔 Recently, I noticed what looked like a small ball of lint hovering in the corner of my bedroom. I had to get real close before I saw the cellar spider attached to the ball. It wasn't lint. It was another bigger spider, spun up neatly in layers of webbing, unmoving. As I returned throughout the day, I saw the cellar spider perched around its package in different positions, sucking the juices out of its captured prey. "Rest in peace" to that other spider. ⚰️ This week's stories don't contain any jump scares or gore. But I do hope you're in the mood for something eerie, spooky, cold, and sad. (Or the one story about a huge spider-like creature.) ✒️ 🪶 🎙Greetings! I'm Nila. Every week, I release a new short story and a new podcast episode spanning the genres of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, mythology, fairy tale, fable, and horror. Hauntober 🐚✒️ For this month's theme, tales of hauntings...but not by ghosts. Titles and taglines below. Enjoy! Short StoriesWe're in Year 12, the Year of Praxis. The word essentially means "practice." Through the stories, I'm exploring elements of my writing practice. MY GRANDFATHER'S CURSED CLOCK THE MAGNIFICENT FROCK Podcast EpisodesWe're in season 8, the Year of Revisitation. Each episode is a standalone story, but it's inspired by an earlier story. The text links below go to the Explore page on Storyfeather, where you can listen to the episode, find the links to the episode(s) that inspired it, and more. Pressing on the Spotify embed image leads to the episode's Spotify page. There is a tall tower to the north. A warlock once lived there. Now the tower is abandoned. But that does not mean it is safe. 🪨
THERE LIVED A CROOKED CREATURE An apartment resident is recruited for help by four kids who claim that a demonic creature has just laid eggs in the laundry room. 👹
🪵I did see the clock with my own eyes once. I looked up at the weird fat twisting curves. Up and up to the crown of angled sections, and the scratches in the middle section that almost looked like a face. A face looking back down at me. It made me feel heavy inside.
Was that the weight of the curse?
Or the weight of his gaze?
There was no pendulum. But I heard a ticking. Even in a room crowded with mourners murmuring.
The ticking of grandfather’s clock.
—From "My Grandfather's Cursed Clock" Parting words🪶 Ever feel like some...thing in your home was watching you? What if you were right? Next time, we'll explore that unsettling question, and an unfortunate incident at the docks. Happy reading and listening! 📚 |
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Hello, I'm a short story writer, fiction podcaster, and book author. 👋🏽 You can read my short genre fiction on my site or listen to it in my podcast. New stories weekly. ***FIND IT ALL AT STORYFEATHER.COM *** Genres: science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, fables, mythology, and occasionally, horror. Follow me on Pinterest to see soothing art progression videos. Or read previous issues of my email publication, the Storyfeather Gazette, to learn more about my stories and about me. (This profile page of mine is just the tip of the iceberg. I invite you to explore any of the links that interest you below. 🧐 Choose high jinks 🤓.)