Jennifer Lesh Fleck
Dark, weird, & literary fiction.
Stories
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2025:
"What Counts as a Heart in a Bicycle"
Dream Theory, 17 Dec 2025
"Cakes of Magnificence and Gravitas"
Behind the Revolving Door, an Anthology of Choices, Vol. II
"The Maiden of Badwater"
Twisted Trails weird west anthology, Shacklebound Books
"In My Little, Dead World"
Modern Mummies anthology, Cat Eye Press
"The Horses and Ponies of 8th Avenue" (reprint)
Small Wonders, August 2025
"Venus Looks Coldly Over Her Shoulder" (reprint)
The Stygian Zine, Issue 4
"Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs" (reprint)
Hexagon Magazine's Year's Best Arthropod Short Fiction, Vol. 2.
"This Island toward Which I Row and Row, Yet Cannot Reach Alone"
Flash Fiction Online, June 2025
"Vestigial" (reprint)
Inner Worlds #7
"The Beating Room"
Neon Dystopia, April 2025
"Venus Looks Coldly Over Her Shoulder"
Cosmic Horror Monthly, Issue #56
"Princess Lusandra and the Dreaming Village"
Dog Save the King, LTUE charity/benefit anthology, 2025
2026 coming soon:
"Your Lacamas Lake Frogman Adventure: Know Before You Go"
Rat Bag Literary, January 2026
"The Drowning Kind"
+Horror Library+ Vol. 9, Dark Moon Books
"The Foundling"
Chthonic Matter Quarterly, Spring 2026
"The Poppet"
Fascination horror anthology, Tyche Books
Story Name TBA :)
The NoSleep Story Podcast
2024:
"Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs"
Heartlines Spec, Issue #6
Trollbreath Magazine, Issue #1
"Wild Possibilities"
Tales to Terrify podcast, Episode 660
"Hermit Crabs"
The Best of MetaStellar, Year Three
"Out on the Fringes, Down in the Weeds"
Carpe Noctem anthology, Tyche Books
"What Runs Along Our Bones"
Skin anthology, Bag of Bones Press
"The Hunter's Moon Has Risen Full"
Bitter Become the Fields, Horns & Rattles Press
"The Things We Burned" (reprint)
Gamut Magazine, Issue #6
"The Mostly Forgotten Unicorn of the Gold Coast"
If There's Anyone Left, Volume 4
"Sheila Now and Then"
Radon Journal, Issue 6
2023:
"The Horses and Ponies of 8th Avenue" (reprint)
Peculiar Pets (The Horror Lite Anthologies)
"Silent at the Mouth" (reprint)
MetaStellar, Oct 25
"Vestigial"
Creepy podcast, Sept 18
"The Girls of Channel 9"
Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic anthology, Cosmic Horror Monthly, the opening story in the Shirley Jackson Award winner for best anthology, 2023!
"Hermit Crabs"
MetaStellar, Feb 16
2022:
"The Horses and Ponies of 8th Avenue"
Fatal Flaw "Wild" Vol. 7
"Silent at the Mouth"
The Arcanist, Apr 7
2021:
Microfiction
Up on the Housetop, Crow's Feet Journal, Dec 24
Microfiction
100 Ways to Die, Crow's Feet Journal, Sep 11
"Luck Was a Lady"
Alchemy: The 1,000 Word Herd Competition Winners, TL;DR Press
2018
"Taking Your Time: Readers Write"
The Sun Magazine, August 2018
2012
"The Things We Burned"
Keeping Track, Main Street Rag
Contact Jennifer Lesh Fleck
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