What Happened At Hawthorne HouseRosalyn (9) invents a game with her 'friends' based around a Royal Court. Rosalyn will do anything to be Queen, but so will they.2023
Hadassah Shiradski
Hadassah (she/her) is from the UK, and fell into the horror genre during her undergrad. She has a strong interest in gothic horror, historical fashion, horror RPGs, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, and folklore. She prefers to write shorter fiction.
United Kingdom
Books
Selected work (4 publications)
Marrow For MallowA short story about a something named 'Mallow' -- and no, she's not the flower. Flowers are kinder.
"Just to make sure that her message had been received and understood as intended, she raked the oak across its front, gouging in her warning."
nature
horror
Want and CuriosityA 104-word micro-fiction piece.
"The Toymaker sat in his workshop, gloved hands folded in his lap. His apron was heavy; the iron thimbles on his slack fingers scraping faintly against his lead lap."
death
curiosity
PennyA 108-word piece of micro-fiction, based off the phrase 'a penny for your thoughts'.
existential
One For Sorrow, But Sorrow SleepsA short story written at night in November, about a magpie and a statue in a secret garden.
"Baudelaire saw them sometimes, the mice and corvids alike, and preferred both over the magpie that had shown up in an ungainly flutter and refused to leave."
winter