THE DOOR IN THE SWAMP

A Southern Gothic Fairy Tale 

In the hands of Beta Readers – as of March 2026

Hide. That’s what Dad told Nellie before he left her home alone. He said he would be back in three days, but after five he still hadn’t returned from the swamp. 

After a visit from nosy church ladies, who unwittingly broke the hoodoo charm that Nellie’s Dad had placed on the house before leaving, a giant swarm of insects besiege her home. Chase outside by the bugs pouring in through a broken window, Nellie runs into the moonlit pines where she finds her Dad. 

But it’s not him. It’s a shapeshifting monster, a Mossy, come to claim restitution for a past betrayal committed by her parents. 

In her attempt to escape the Mossy, Nellie drowns. Saved by a giant catfish and dumped deep in the swamp, she wakes up on a raft manned by a rotting ghost, Jack. He offers to help her find her missing Dad, but she quickly learns that Jack is all about Jack and that he will do anything to escape his curse. 

Nellie, not only needs to outrun a vengeful monster, navigate a swamp inhabited by mystical creatures and the dead, but must discern the truth from Jack’s lies if she’s ever to reunite with her Dad ever again.

BIG NOSE KATE

A Weird Western

Draft 1 complete. Beginning first round of edits – as of March 2026

When Kate came wandering in from the desert, feral as a coyote, she had no recollection of her past–not even a name. Taken in by the local blacksmith, Big Nose Kate begins a new life as an apprentice. But, the quietude is soon disturbed when a botched séance triggers the arrival of an otherworldly stranger. Bullets fly, shattering her hopes of a life as a blacksmith. Now Kate must run, but the only way to survive is to confront what was forgotten.

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