Essays • Ghost Stories • Real Life
NOTES FROM THE DARK
Life, with the lights on (and off).
Featured Story
From Kisses to Cold Spots
Why I stopped writing romance and followed my imagination into darker—and considerably more haunted—territory.
Read the Story →Behind the Books
STORIES & THE WRITING LIFE
Romance
Why Metalsome Affair Will Always Be One of My Favorite Stories
A personal look at the characters, heart, and beautifully imperfect love story that made this book so special to me.
Read More →Horror Craft
The Art of Writing a Horror Prologue
A prologue is a promise—and a warning. Here’s how I try to open the door just wide enough for the darkness to slip through.
Read More →Indie Publishing
The Price of Freedom
Creative freedom is glorious. It also comes with editors, designers, platforms, and bills. An honest look at what indie publishing costs.
Read More →Things That Go Bump
STRANGE BUT TRUE
Humor in the Shadows
Laughing in the Dark
Because sometimes the only reasonable response to darkness is to look it squarely in the face—and laugh.
Enter If You Dare →A True Strange Story
Three Knocks at 2:30 A.M.
A sound in the dead of night. Three deliberate knocks. And the uneasy knowledge that some visitors do not use the front door.
Read the Story →No Filter • No Apologies
THIS IS SIXTY
Stories about bodies, survival, identity, and discovering that reinvention rarely arrives looking dignified.
Who Am I If I’m Not Fat?
What happens when your body changes—but the identity you carried for decades doesn’t know where to go?
Read More →The Month My Body Staged a Coup
One medical crisis, one spectacularly uncooperative body, and the kind of survival story nobody puts on a vision board.
Read More →More from Megan
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