Julie Leo – author

Tag: short stories

  • Nominated!

    Nominated!

    Love Letters to Poe, Volume ll: Houses of Usher, edited by Sara Crocoll Smith, is a finalist for a 2023 Visiter Award. The awards will be presented October 7th at an awards ceremony during the International Edgar Allen Poe Festival & Awards at Poe’s house in Baltimore, MD. The anthology includes my Poe-inspired story by…

  • Poe is a gateway drug

    Poe is a gateway drug

    My story (written as Ana Domini) “Play Dead for Me” appears in Love Letters to Poe: Volume 2, Houses of Usher, the second exquisite collection of writings inspired by Edgar Allen Poe, edited by Sara Crocoll Smith. Volume 1 made me weep tears of black lace joy and this one is full of creepy houses…

  • Eat My Dust – Flash Fiction

    Eat My Dust – Flash Fiction

     My rural crime flash fiction “Eat My Dust” is on the Mystery Tribune website. It’s a 5-minute read and you can’t beat the price: free. Read it here.

  • Use of the Awkward Hand

    Use of the Awkward Hand

    Black Cat Mystery Magazine #4 includes a story from yours truly. I’m in great company in this issue, too, so it’s sure to be a murder of good reads. Digital version: http://bcmystery.com/black-cat-mystery-magazine-4/ Paper version is available here: https://wildsidepress.com/black-cat-mystery-magazine-4-paper/ Or if you want to buy at Amazon, here: https://amzn.to/2FFk9bR If you love mysteries, you’d love a…

  • Mystery Shorts

    Mystery Shorts

    I don’t mean the eternal question: Boxers or briefs? Rather, the 2018 Derringer Awards for short mystery fiction have been announced. Winners are posted here, at the website of the Short Mystery Fiction Society, with links to the winning flashfic and nominees. Congratulations to all!

  • The first question

    The first question

    It seems like when people look at something, the first question that usually occurs to them is: How can I eat that? This might be how the rumor started that the moon is made of cheese. That, and dragons occasionally eating it and then spitting it back out, like last night. I didn’t get a…