A haunting tale of a Roman legionary’s ghost, never released from his watch. From Roman Britain to the Industrial Age to 1987, one karmic thread binds a sentinel, a vicar, and a penitent wanderer in a story of duty, debt, and release. About foggy borderlands of Britain and Scotland, about legacy and history lingering and never going away - and my favorite theme, redemption.
Published in the Literary Fantasy Magazine, 2025 summer issue.
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Babes, Saints and Madmen
As Arthur Conan Doyle crosses into the afterlife, he finds himself in a luminous garden where childhood wonder lingers—and where the mystery of the Cottingley Fairies is quietly set right.
Published in the Icarus Writing Collective, issue 5: Blossom, 2026
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Quiet Flows the Volga
Captured during Stenka Razin's raids on the Caspian coast, a Persian noblewoman accompanies the Cossack warlord's followers. Her kindness awakens a more tender side of the feared rebel, but the men who follow him see such softness as a threat. As tensions within the warband mount, Razin finds himself trapped between the demands of legend and the remnants of his humanity. Inspired by the Russian folk ballad of Stenka Razin, this historical fantasy retells the famous legend through the eyes of the woman cast into the Volga.
Published in the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Spring issue 2026.
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Small Gods
A recluse living on the windswept slopes of Cape Malea, the elderly Helen of Troy reflects on her reconciliation with Menelaus, and their return to their homeland – the Lakedaimon of myth.
Published in the Mythic Circle magazine, 2026 edition.
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Mainland
Set on a remote Finnish lighthouse island in the early 1900s, Mainland is a story of isolation and grief, of loss and human kindness – touched by the faintest breath of the supernatural.
Published in The Brussels Review, Autumn 2026 issue.