Pleased to announce that my dark fantasy “A Portal Fantasy for Grown-ups” is out today in Gamut Magazine. This is a story about the portal in your walk-in closet, the ways it differs from the portals you dreamt of as a child, and whether there’s magic of a sort in there anyway. Here’s a snippet, after the unnamed narrator first discovers the portal:
Your first thought is: this is why we got the house for less than asking. Your next is of the days, long ago, when you would have given anything to have your closet open onto another world, like something out of a childhood story. But now, instead of childlike wonder, there’s middle-aged apathy, and instead of snowflakes in lantern-light there’s…this. The darkness at the bottom of a bottomless well.
This is my first publication since 2021; very glad to have found this one a good home.