The Gravedigger’s Tale is a collation of nine short stories all with horror themes – several have been adapted from old posts of mine on the realistic-style subreddit, /r/NoSleep; several have been adapted from old TweetFics of mine; a few others are just scattered horror stories from my archives.Letters from the Dead: 17k, rated M, first person POV. A few years removed – and thus safe – from his old posting, a gravedigger finally tells the tale of his haunting. Written in the style of a diarised blog post, originally posted on /r/NoSleep. CW for homophobia, grief, potential mental illness.I Forgot My Manners: 2.7k, rated M, first person POV. A young woman forgets her manners when encountering strangers on the path, and lives in dread of the consequences. Written in the style of a diarised blog post, originally posted on /r/NoSleep. Set near to Llallwg National Park.Wild 3k, rated T, first person POV. A young woman walks home alone on a foggy night, and soon regrets it. Written in the style of a blog post, originally posted on /r/NoSleep.The 600w. They forgot about the door, somehow. Adapted from a TweetFic.The Coffin at 400w. A vessel picks up a coffin afloat at sea. Adapted from a TweetFic.The Rated T, 5k, M/M. A young man misses his departed boyfriend. Tragedy and horror and ghosts in this one — note CWs for different kinds of domestic violence implied throughout, infidelity, death and references to suicide and self-harm. Adapted from a TweetFicGreen 2.6k, rated M. A chicken farmer tries to impress his new neighbour by growing him some flowers, but everything that he grows dies. Adapted from a TweetFic.The 700w. A ghost story.The Shepherd: 1.3k. Abstract Horror. Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight.All stories included bar The Shepherd are set in my Magic Beholden universe, but are readable individually as standalone stories.

Fantasy/Crime. The youngest son of the family business struggles for the approval of his father.In the magical smuggling town of Lashton, the youngest son of the Laithes, a prominent crime family, struggles to make himself heard and accepted by his family, especially his father. At the age of 17, he undergoes a metamorphosis.23k, rated E for violence, featuring Dai Laithe, Oidhche Laithe, and the rest of the Laithe family, with some appearances from Gellert Osgodby and to a lesser extent, Lucien Pike.Please note that this is a violent piece about broadly abhorrent men throughout, and it contains a lot of content that may be triggering, particularly severe PTSD, anxiety, graphic violence, murder, and complex family dynamics including neglect and a survival of the fittest mentality.

A trans prisoner is frozen in time with his holes still accessible for the crew of a mining vessel to use. 5k, rated E, trans M/cis M but hundreds of other people. A trans twink agrees to be involved in an experiment in lieu of his year-long prison sentence — he's placed in a stasis box, frozen in time, with his holes still accessible for the crew of a mining vessel to make use of.

5k, cis M/cis M. A professor of magical history, Jan Jeschek, modifies his younger lover’s body — namely, replaces his original genitalia with a new set of equipment — for the pleasure of divulging him of its virginity and then, getting him pregnant.Size difference and age difference, body transformation, domination and submission, power dynamics, crying, overstimulation, dirty talk, daddy kink, impregnation, a snapshot of some pregnant sex. Eager and enthusiastic consent throughout. No gendered terms are applied to the original or the new genitalia, and nor does this story contain feminine language such as "mother" or similar, barring a singular instance of the word "maidenhead".

An abbot takes a stranded sailor on for… personal duties.6k, M/M, rated E! Age difference, virginity kink, some naivety, some oral and anal, first time enthusiasm.

The year is 1836. Gwydion Mede struggles with the limits of their immortality. They've spent the last few centuries hopping from body to body, inhabiting corpses until they decay and try to make peace with their limited power. Caught in a small village in a body that suddenly gives out, they're out of options and out of time. This time, they might die for real. Something catches whiff of their last, desperate plea for help, and offers Mede a deal that seems too good to be true and access to magic that shouldn't exist. Mede doesn't have long to decide, and this deal is better than death. But can they chew and swallow what they bit off? LONGBONES is a prequel 9,000 word short story to EYETOOTH, but best read after reading EYETOOTH for context. It contains content that is not suitable for anyone under 18. Please read Content Warnings before purchasing.

Tyler Kyle doesn’t believe in monsters. A washed-up thirty-year-old actor and reluctant cryptid investigator, Tyler is used to playing the Scully to his best friend Josh’s Mulder on their stupidly popular YouTube channel. But when Tyler receives previously unseen footage of the B movie bombshell mother who abandoned him eighteen years ago—footage linked to an isolated island in the Canadian wilderness—the mystery is one conspiracy he’s determined to investigate. The fact that following the scent gives Tyler an excuse to run away from the “straight” Josh, whom he drunkenly made out with, is just the cherry on the shit sundae. But Echo Island isn’t what it seems. Its eerily scenic veneer hides a twisted secret buried in its roots as a gay conversion camp, and as Tyler retraces his mother’s footsteps, he discovers a supernatural connection between the residents and the island—one they seem to think Tyler and his mother share. Even worse, the footage of Tyler’s mom came from someone on the island–a stalker whose obsessive fascination with both Tyler and Josh is about to make Tyler wish he hadn’t gone this one alone. Puppeteered by his stalker, searching for his mother, and debating whether it’s possible to queerbait yourself, Tyler comes to realize that it doesn’t matter so much whether you believe in monsters, if they believe in you. THE ERSTWHILE TYLER KYLE is an adult horror comedy for fans of GHOST FILES, BUZZFEED UNSOLVED, and TWIN PEAKS. Content warnings available on Steve Westenra's website (see Goodreads Profile).

"You are set to be bound in the mountains tomorrow. Lord Zeus has called all of my brethren for a meeting. I am too scared to think of why. Why He would call us now, on the eve of your exile? Everyone on Olympus knows of your transgressions, that you will be punished but no one will tell me how. Even the most loosed of lips will not speak of it. Lord Zeus has not told anyone, it would seem. I pray to the fates. May they be kind. My hands shake. My mouth feels dry. My stomach aches." TEETH TALON TONGUE is a dark, queer retelling of the Prometheus Myth. What if Zeus wasn’t the one to set Prometheus’s punishment, but his avian lover, a vulture? More importantly, a proud beast of Zeus? This is a story about obsessive love, and the measures taken to keep hold of it. TEETH TALON TONGUE is a 4.6k word short story featuring dark subject matter. Please refer to content warnings before reading. This story is not intended for anyone under the age of 18.

Disgraced surgeon Ramsey Abernathy isn’t God; he doesn’t make mistakes. At least, that is what he tells himself during countless hours of assembling body parts and sorting through bags of organs. Ever since the death of his brother, Ramsey has been obsessed with resurrection and reanimation. If he can find a cure for death, then science needn’t stop at creation—it may yield its secrets for reversal, as well. All it will take him is one more…one more body, one more sleepless night.If ever he feels like giving up, the ghost of his brother, an entity he calls ‘Wisp’, will raise cane until he sees results. Wisp is just as eager to have a body as Ramsey is to have a breakthrough, but neither can anticipate what will happen when science takes on a life of its own.Set deep in the heart of the Louisiana bayou, revisit the terrifying tale of Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN as you’ve never read it before.

While on patrol in the woods, a proud knight finds a mushroom fabled to grow only in the wake of a fairie king's magic. A tale of magic, desire, and forgetting. Full content warnings on the author's website.

Dallas’ entire life changed when the Church of New Lazarus opened its doors.The small town of Wicker, Alabama has been taken over by a glamorous, fast-talking reverend with a charismatic smile as bright as his Rolex watch. This new reverend, who calls himself Blue, has declared himself a ‘modern day Lazarus’ and has set the whole town on fire with religious fervor. Yet, Dallas doesn’t trust him. There is something sinister about the new church and its cult-like following. And when Dallas, who has spent five years caring for his ailing grandfather, is suddenly thrust into the world behind the pulpit; he finds that his expectations of salvation may lie in more infernal hands.