Jennifer Lesh Fleck
Dark, weird, & literary fiction.
2026 Stories out now:
"The Girls of Channel 9" (reprint)
Flash Fiction Online "Resist" Anthology
"The Needy"
Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, Vol. 13
"The Foundling"
Chthonic Matter Quarterly, Vol. 4, Issue 1
"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 Rise of St. Francie"
The NoSleep Story Podcast
Stories coming soon to haunt you:
"The Big, Cushy Cutie"
Adventitious
"Notes for the Grief Cruise Review I Never Ended Up Writing"
Dream Theory
"The Mostly Forgotten Unicorn of the Gold Coast" (reprint)
Plott Hound Magazine, Issue 6
"The Show is About to Begin"
Cosmic Horror Monthly
"The Poppet"
Fascination anthology, Tyche Books
"Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs" (reprint)
A Midnight Kind of Place anthology
"When He Came Back"
Fraidy Cat Quarterly
"The Musgrave Articles"
Side Hustle: Horror Stories for Late Capitalism, Agita Publishing
"Excelsior"
Penumbric Speculative Ficton Magazine
"The Mostly Forgotten Unicorn of the Gold Coast" (reprint)
Zooscape
"The Deeps"
anthology TBA :)
2025 Published Stories:
"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" *
*2025 Tangent Online Double-Star recommendation, 2025 Locus recommended story
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
2024 Published Stories:
"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"*
*notable story in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 17
Skin anthology, Bag of Bones Press
"The Hunter's Moon Has Risen Full"*
*notable story in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 17
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 Published Stories:
"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" *
*opening story in the Shirley Jackson Award winner for best anthology, 2023
Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic anthology, Cosmic Horror Monthly
"Hermit Crabs"
MetaStellar, Feb 16
2022 Published Stories:
"The Horses and Ponies of 8th Avenue"
Fatal Flaw "Wild" Vol. 7
"Silent at the Mouth"
The Arcanist, Apr 7
2021 Published Stories:
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 Published Personal Essay
"Taking Your Time: Readers Write"
The Sun Magazine, August 2018
2012 Published Story
"The Things We Burned"
Keeping Track, Main Street Rag
2005 Published Humor
"Microwave Piroshki!"
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Contact Jennifer Lesh Fleck
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