Published Stories
Fiction published in journals, anthologies, and magazines — each one a different door into the same recurring questions.
57 stories
Kelp Journal
The Hold
Published in Kelp Journal
Read ↗Forevermore
The Rope
Originally published in Forevermore
Read ↗Gossamer Wight
Preliminary Screening
Featured in Everyday Eerie Anthology
Read ↗Horrific Scribblings
No Exceptions
An independent publisher of transgressive dark fiction (and some poetry), horror and horror-adjacent such as dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, and the surreal.
Read ↗Flash Fiction Magazine
The Data
David arrives at 7:15 a.m., the same time he’s arrived every morning for eight months. The hospital room holds the stillness of bodies sustained by machines: ventilator rhythm, heart monitor …
Read ↗Moss Puppy Magazine
The Wolf's Tributary
Published in Moss Puppy Magazine — Issue 9: Echoed Howls
Read ↗Free Flash Fiction
The Arsonist's Daughter
Icicles clung to the eaves, glinting and mournful, as if the house itself wept. The air stung her cheeks, each breath a cold, unfinished chord.
Read ↗Bowery Gothic
The Voice Coach
Published in Bowery Gothic
Read ↗Furious Fiction / Australian Writers Centre
Behind the Eight Ball
Published in Furious Fiction / Australian Writers Centre — February 2026 Longlist
Read ↗orangepeel literary magazine
PDFSlow Circles
Published in orangepeel literary magazine, Issue 9.5
Read ↗Across the Margin
The House of Denied Mercies
"The House of Denied Mercies" by Raymond Brunell — Across The Margin
Read ↗Writers' Hour Magazine
The Warden Observes
Originally published in Writers' Hour Magazine
Read ↗Horrific Scribblings
We Have Not Died Yet
An independent publisher of transgressive dark fiction (and some poetry), horror and horror-adjacent such as dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, and the surreal.
Read ↗Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts
PDFFrostwork
Published in Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts, Vol. 1, Issue 4, Fall 2025
Read ↗After Dinner Conversation
Did You Wish For Me
Originally published in After Dinner Conversation
Read ↗Bluebirds Scribe
The Peace Gardens
Originally published at Bluebirds Scribe
Read ↗34 Orchard
ForthcomingThe M-Mode Trace
Published in 34 Orchard, Autumn 2026 — Released November 10, 2026
Variety Pack
The Tides' Fragments
Published in Variety Pack — Issue XIII
Read ↗River & South Review
The Archive Cylinder
Published in River & South Review
Read ↗Literary Garage
The Black Lung Gospel
Published in Literary Garage
Read ↗Elegant Literature
PDFFrequency Response
Published in Elegant Literature
Read ↗Spillwords
The Taste of Ancestral Sorrow
Spillwords.com presents: The Taste of Ancestral Sorrow, flash fiction by Raymond Brunell, whose works explore memory, loss, and the ...
Read ↗Wild Willow Magazine
PDFStacking Chairs
Published in Wild Willow Magazine, Issue 5
Read ↗Little Old Lady Comedy
Phantom Pocket Syndrome
The safe house sits at the end of a cul-de-sac in a neighborhood where people still know their mail carriers
Read ↗Literary Cocktail Magazine
PaywalledSteam Faces
Published in Literary Cocktail Magazine — Fall 2025 Issue
Read ↗Rat Bag Lit
Thirteen Devours the First
Originally published in Rat Bag Lit
Read ↗Dishsoap Quarterly
Forty-Seven Angles
Published in Dishsoap Quarterly — Issue 12
Read ↗Furious Fiction / Australian Writers Centre
Never
Published in Furious Fiction / Australian Writers Centre — November 2025 Longlist
Read ↗Skeleton Flowers Press
The Palimpsest Crest
Featured in Autumnal Equinox Vol. 2
Read ↗Furious Fiction / Australian Writers Centre
The News at 6:15
Published in Furious Fiction / Australian Writers Centre — December 2025 Showcase
Read ↗Manic World Magazine
The Inheritance Fraud
Published in Manic World Magazine
Read ↗COOP: chickens of our poetry
Compliment Clouds
Published in COOP: chickens of our poetry — Zine 13
Read ↗Necessary Fiction
Ballast
Published in Necessary Fiction
Read ↗TrashLight Press
The Welfare Queen's Molotov
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Read ↗Dark Myth Publications
File 2847
Anthology contributor at Dark Myth Publications.
Read ↗Al Dente (University of Alabama)
The Death Eater
Published in Al Dente (University of Alabama) — Issue 2 — Our Roots, Winter 2025
Read ↗Wicked Shadow Press
Advent
40 Stories ~ 290 Pages Behind the lights, the feasts and the forced warmth of tradition, something watches.
Read ↗Dipity Lit Mag
Always Waiting
Published in Dipity Lit Mag
Read ↗Parcham Online
Deserve
Published in Parcham Online — December 2025 — Fiction
Read ↗Little Key Press
Seventeen Calls
Website for Little Key Press, a small press publishing company.
Read ↗Strip Mall Magazine
Everything Costs Everything
Published in Strip Mall Magazine — Issue 04 | Fall 2025
Read ↗Antler Velvet
PDFThe Arithmetic of Angels
Published in Antler Velvet, Issue 6: Chiaroscuro
Read ↗FLARE Magazine
Bruise-Dark Cursive
I began cataloging them on day three. The first shadow appeared during a flare—that bone-deep ache that makes you understand why medieval physicians believed in humors, in poisons pooling beneath t…
Read ↗The Orange Rose
Sunflowers and the Shape of Absence
Published in The Orange Rose — Issue 3 (November 7, 2025)
Read ↗COOP: chickens of our poetry
Viens Ici
Published in COOP: chickens of our poetry — FOWL
Read ↗101 Words
Seven Years Since Eliza
The phone grows roots through Agnes’s living room floor. Seven years since the funeral, yet hibiscus blooms from the rotary dial.
Read ↗InterrobangLit
Pulse
A medical short story exploring a chapel facing a medical condition.
Read ↗Hey Young Writer
The Portrait's Pulse
Fog pressed against the studio windows like a damp hand had smeared the glass. Candlewax dripped down the brass, calcifying into little white stalactites.
Read ↗Paragraph Planet
The Consumption
Published in Paragraph Planet — 7 October 2025
Read ↗PoArtMo Magazine
PDFRipples of Light
Published in PoArtMo Magazine, Issue 1: Family (December 2025)
Read ↗Elixir Verse Press
The Harvest Unraveled
Featured in Elixir Verse Equinox: Arcana (Spring 2026)
Read ↗TrashLight Press
Body Temperature
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Read ↗Last Girls' Club
PaywalledThe Space Where He Isn't
Published in Last Girls' Club, Winter Issue No. 20: Secret Police, ICE, and Desperate Times (published 2025-12-22)
Read ↗Wicked Shadow Press
The Unblemished Christ
Unholier Than Thou is a two-volume, international anthology of sacrilegious dark fiction, collecting some of the boldest and most unsettling voices in contemporary horror fiction.
Read ↗PulpCult
The Aether Exchange
KRANKENHAUS is an anthology that peers beneath the clean scent of disinfectant and into the fevered underbelly of the medical world, where healing and horror may be manifested in the same breath.
Read ↗PulpCult
The Static Between Breaths
KRANKENHAUS is an anthology that peers beneath the clean scent of disinfectant and into the fevered underbelly of the medical world, where healing and horror may be manifested in the same breath.
Read ↗Black Hare Press
The Inheritors
Christmas is meant to be a season of light — but every flicker casts a deeper shadow.
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