@authortrsteele
he/him 🏳️⚧️ | ♎ | author of fantasy and gothic fiction ⚔️ | words in/coming from A Coup of Owls Press, Hearth Stories, Tales to Terrify, Heartlines Spec, Plott Hound Magazine, and smoke and mold https://linktr.ee/trsteeleauthor
This little piece was inspired by my experience encountering flowering bloodroot for the first time; it evoked a lot of feelings about life, death, ephemeral plants, and the liminality that comes with the changing of seasons.
I'm so happy to have my springtime ghost story flash fiction piece in the latest issue of The Sprawl Mag (@thesprawl.bsky.social)! Read it here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1 🌱
Poster announcing the contributors in the upcoming Sprawl Mag volume, featuring a fairy with wings and blue hair, a rabbit and stars.
Now announcing our contributors for the Sprawl Mag 3.1. We are so excited to share this volume with you! Featuring:
Pablo Andrés Palo
Viviana De Cecco
@francesboyle19.bsky.social
@themaust.bsky.social
@sidellwrites.bsky.social
Ivan Ndoma-Egba
@lucienrstarchild.bsky.social
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Contract is signed! I'm so excited to say I have a story set to publish in @podcastle.org this year! Can't wait to share it with everyone when it's released. It's a grim (but ultimately hopeful) story about searching, doors, fey beings in owl-shapes, and much more... 🦉✨
Silk and Foxglove anthology, a BIPOC erotic eco-horror anthology, with a collaged artwork of a red circle, a dragonfly, and a sensual rear end!
Due to the sudden closure of the small press publishing our anthology, we're looking for a new home!
"Silk and Foxglove" is a BIPOC anthology of 13 stories of erotic-eco-horror! It's weird, gorgeous, evocative, & unnerving as hell!
Please boost! If any small presses are interested, let me know!
a calf surrounded by flames
If you're looking for a calfing good time, check out "A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" by @srinivassimo.bsky.social
We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/a-pale-herd-...
Issue 4 is now available on our website!
Scroll to the bottom of the pages for Issue 4: plotthoundmag.com/issues/
And, Issues 1 and 2 are free to read online at the same link!
Planted some native wildflower seeds for cold stratification today. Wishing them all the best! 🌱
"Bird-watching," I repeat, eyebrow quirked. "In the middle of my apartment?"
"Built over my favorite place." The ghost nods, peaceably eyeing up my kitchen cupboards. "You should have seen how it was-oh!" Her eyes shine.
"There's nothing here," I say.
She wipes her eyes. "Birds have ghosts, too."
A painting of a hare surrounded by large snowflakes, limbs and ears all pulled into a loaf shape.
Loafing hare ❄️
All of this. Writing can be fun. Writing can be annoying. You can sit down and stare at the blank page and feel like there's nothing inside your head except for a cymbal-banging monkey. Other times, you'll sit down and the writing will pour from your fingers like magic. That's human. That's art.
Are unicorns your jam? Well grab a slice of toast and give "At the Edge of the Tale" by @authortrsteele.bsky.social a go
We love it, and we hope you will, too!
year of the fire horse risograph 🐎🔥
I would not be the writer I am without the support of Little Ghost books. They are a hub for the Toronto horror community and beyond. They've been there for everyone with free programming, community events, and supporting indie authors. I sincerely love them, toss the ghosts some coins if you can.
A painting of a raven, head lowered and throat feathers raised, making a "CRROAK" sound.
he go 🐸
One of the best (and one of my favourite) stories of 2025! ✨
Commission for @authortrsteele.bsky.socia 💛
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June 2025
So excited to share my horror flash fiction piece, "Salamander Season," featured in this week's episode of Tales to Terrify! I hope you enjoy listening. 🦎
My final story of December (and 2025): I reread Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh by Marie Croke, published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social.
"Grandfather took me into the Whispermarsh for the first time when I was four, too young to know we shouldn’t have been there."
An all-time fave of mine!
If you're looking for things to read during the winter blues, give our fiction and poetry a try. We love it, and we hope you will, too: plotthoundmag.com
Today's story was Of Flowers and Snails by Allie Leigh, published in @heartlines-spec.com!
"'Coin is common. I’d rather the flowers from her hair.'"
I'm biased toward beautiful, touching stories about trees and this one did not disappoint.
Only 3 stories left! Today I read The Ways the Woods May Answer by Jennifer Mace, also published in @havenspec.bsky.social!
"They would not bury her in consecrated ground. Her life was all the wrong forms of holy."
Amazing story of grief, love, and witchery. Bit of a wonderful horror element too!
December 28th's story was the beautiful Handsomest Gentlest
by M. R. Robinson, published in @havenspec.bsky.social.
"I'd only been dead for two hours, and I was too busy feeling sorry for myself to be afraid of some old black dog curled up crying in the bushes."
So much emotion in only ~2k words!
And today I read A Recipe for Immortality (Serves: 2) by Shreejita Majumder, published by @talesfeathers.bsky.social!
"Still, you use your hands. It’s how the love gets in, after all."
Loved the recipe format, loved the time travel element, loved the emotion, loved this one overall very much.
Yesterday's story was Small Prayers for the God of Sow Thistle Hill by Kate Francia, published by @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!
"I am small and old, a hill worn soft by many years of rain, and the only thing buried in me is a family of rabbits."
Wow. This one made me emotional. So good!!
And on December 25th, I treated myself to the novelette Wolf Moon, Antler Moon by A.C. Wise, published by @reactorsff.bsky.social.
"She needs to not be prey.
It’s that simple.
And there’s nothing simple about it at all."
Do yourself a favour: read this! Loved it.
December 24th's story was To Kill a Language by Rukman Ragas, published in @apexmag.bsky.social.
"Try to catch all the resonant sounds your body makes, just because you are alive. This, too, is language."
I loved the formatting of this one. More list stories, please!
For December 23rd I read The Last Two Gardeners of Mars by Irene W. Collins, published in @heartlines-spec.com (and kindly delivered via email! Sign up, everyone)!
"The greenhouse recognized them now as kin."
Stunningly beautiful and tender. Really enjoyed this one.
December 22nd's read was A Hagiography in Two Acts by
Wren Douglas, published in @bfbzine.bsky.social!
"One day, as she was skipping along the shoreline—kicking up droves of beads with her bare feet—Aclena found a head."
I love a short story that feels like the opening to a massive world. Amazing!