The tower has three stomachs. The first is the kind all buildings have, you know the one. The second is for uninvited guests. And the third? Well that's a secret. Try not to think about it. Read this instead: "Hunger Fills A Hole" by Rosemary Melchior crowcrosskeys.com/2026/05/23/h...

new story day!! vampires and foxes and the discomfort of eating together

short fiction i'm proud of lately: "Lungs Paper Plastic" in @crowkeys.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/03/15/l... "Cheese Life" in @jerseydevilpress.bsky.social www.jerseydevilpress.com?page_id=8900 "Ant Twin" in Nightmare Mag www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ant-...

Thrilled to be a part of the first episode of Gothic Tales podcast, produced at the Manhattan Neighborhood Network studio! I read my story “Nymue Rising” originally published in @crowkeys.bsky.social youtu.be/jq-mnmRvixo?...

Someone in the tower is trying to order takeout. The tower does not appear on any map, & does not engage with satellite navigation systems. We do not anticipate success. On eating, today's flash... "Ortolan Bunting" by @junewhitewrites.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2026/05/20/o...

I love the meticulous attention to language in this poem... @crowkeys.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bd9tk2r2

It's a strange sort of day here at the tower. We don't know why, it just feels different. So, we're glad we have a familiar poet to read today. A comfort poet, if you will. "midnight love stories for girls fishing" by Jane Ayres crowcrosskeys.com/2026/05/16/m...

If you hear noises in the woods near the tower... No, you don't. It's better if you don't. It's safer if you don't. Safer still is reading today's short story... "Beast" by L.M. Conkling crowcrosskeys.com/2026/05/13/b...

Here's my offering for tomorrow's holiday. Take care, see ya Monday. 🖤

“A changeling in the family is not a tragedy or even a problem for her daughter’s generation, though some parents still take steps to keep the fairies out.” Some perfect Mother’s Day reading from @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @crowkeys.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/01/c...

The tower has been talking in its sleep. It tells us stories while it dreams, but we've read them already. The last story it somniloquyed was this one... "Variations on an Angel" by An Mu crowcrosskeys.com/2026/05/09/v...

Publication day is always a spark of joy. Thank you @keychild.bsky.social! "A Snapdragon's Kiss" was written for a novella I've been working on. There's lots of nature magic (and of course trees 🌲🌳🪾) "Riverlord" and "How the Wind and Rain Were Separated" are about love, and the falling from it.

We're thinking in threes, and things that happen in them. Three knocks before the door opens. Three cheers. Three poems by @brokenswanquill.bsky.social "A Snapdragon's Kiss" "Riverlord" "How the Wind and Rain Were Separated" crowcrosskeys.com/2026/05/06/t...

FFer Read of the Day: "The Egg" by @schorn.bsky.social in @crowkeys.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/23/t...

The plants in the tower have started growing strange appendages of late. We don't like to look at them. They unnerve us. For a story that is also slightly unnerving... "Bright Sharp Smiles" by Sophia Krich-Brinton crowcrosskeys.com/2026/05/02/b...

The wind outside sounds like the sea. We're nowhere near the sea, but if we close our eyes, it sounds like we are. It is the perfect score for today's flash fiction. "Gaia's Lot" by JJ Stewart crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/29/g...

And this haunted house/fairy tale hybrid in @crowkeys.bsky.social. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/19/a...

The tower is flooded with salt water. Where it came from, we can't be sure. Perhaps, it flowed from today's duo of poems by Dan Fitzgerald. We're hoping by reading them, the water will be appeased. "Lost On A Forever Sea" "Zen Sea" crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/25/t...

Someone is trying to pry the door of the tower open. The door is wilful and not easily cowed. We suspect it will remain closed for some time. It's okay, we don't need to leave. We have a story to read. "The Last Nail" by Anna Brinkerhoff crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/22/t...

Been sending this to all my friends, because they all love cats and have insomnia

This one really kept me up at night ~ thank you @keychild.bsky.social for letting this stray into your tower 🤍

There is a feral animal scampering through the tower this evening. We don't quite know what it is, but we do know that it bites. Visitor, beware. It's safer to read today's micro fiction. "Insomnia" by @happilylenaaa.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/18/i...

We're looking after a box for a mysterious entity. They have told us we can open it, but we don't want to risk it. We're opening our browser and reading today's poem. You should too. "Pandora Opens Her Browser" by Allison Burris crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/15/p...

I had a lot of fun writing this little horror story—very glad to see it published today at Crow & Cross Keys! (Shoutout to my dog Tilly for the inspiration.)

Day 11: "Heirloom" by Sarah Clark in @crowkeys.bsky.social. The line work!! The sensory details!! The rhythm & sound!! Did I mention the line work?? crowcrosskeys.com/2026/03/14/t...

Read this if you've ever let yourself love a wild thing. @snarlsdickens.bsky.social

We're battening down the hatches here in the tower. We're not quite sure why, but it feels necessary. For another oncoming storm, today's short story... "A Little Thing in a Big World" by John MacNeill Miller crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/11/a...

Can I interest my #PhantomsFriday friends in a ghostly flash fic, written by yours truly?

This is very good (full disclosure: this is my bestie's work, which is very good)

ICYMI, my second story with Crow & Cross Keys is out now!

Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat! I actually have a ghostly flash fic that came out today. Check it out here👇

"Because there is blood on her hands. Isn't there?" @braegrosz.com in @crowkeys.bsky.social

Something is moving in the corner of our eye. It is pretending we can't see it, and so are we. It's for the best, really. The thing in the corner of our eye is reading flash fiction. So are we. This flash fiction: "When You Are Ready" by @braegrosz.com crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/08/w...

“Is it not possible to love the original child and the changeling at once?" “… and they join hands as they leap, unafraid …” @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @crowkeys.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/01/c...

Something is scurrying through the tower and knocking over all of our trinkets. We haven't caught it yet, but we will. By the time you've read today's poem, we will have caught it. We promise. "The Sky Still the Color of Old Blood" by Patricia Russo crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/04/t...

Full Pink Moon in Libra tonight. April Fools in every sense, but here's a true story for you: Changeling Daycare. Thank you to Elou Carroll and @crowkeys.bsky.social

ICYMI I have a new story to go with your Pink Moon. "Changeling Daycare" is up @crowkeys.bsky.social

The tower grew a nursery recently. We often hear children laughing, but when we look inside, we always find it empty. We are unnerved. We're going to read today's short story and pretend not to listen. "Changeling Daycare" by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/01/c...

We're having technicolour thoughts today. Too many of them. We would prefer it if our thoughts would pick a colour and stick to it. If we read today's flash, they just might... "Little Black Thoughts" by Judy Slitt crowcrosskeys.com/2026/03/28/l...

Outside the tower, the sky can't make up its mind. We've had blazing sun, snow, hail. We only hope the stars won't fall this evening to complete the set. While we hope, we'll read a trio of poems by Deidre Cavazzi: "Garden" "Celestial Navigation" "Sylph" crowcrosskeys.com/2026/03/25/t...

The tower has been indecisive lately, always appearing in many places at once. It cannot decide where it wants to be, which is unfortunate for we who are stuck inside it. Luckily, we have an excellent short story to read: "Bad Decisions" by M. Stevenson crowcrosskeys.com/2026/03/21/b...

We at the tower are investigating the identity of "the narrator", for there must always be a narrator. Thus far, results are inconclusive. What is conclusive, however, is the excellence of today's flash fiction: "Heavens, Ashes, Earth" by Miriam Killdeer crowcrosskeys.com/2026/03/18/h...

The eldritch creature that exists in a parallel version of the tower has been trying to lure us with talk of a great inheritance. We are doing our best to ignore it. For example, by reading today's duo of poems by Sarah Clark: "Secret Moon" "Heirloom" crowcrosskeys.com/2026/03/14/t...

We at the tower have been comparing ourselves to buildings. If we were a building, and we couldn't pick the tower, what would we be? On architecture and other things, today's reprinted short fiction: "My Architecture" by George Nevgodovskyy crowcrosskeys.com/2026/03/11/m...

We've been turning into strange things of late. The tower is filled with once-human objects, who still retain some human features. We are disquieted. Let's read some flash fiction to ease our minds... "That Which is Not God" by Dana Brewer Harris crowcrosskeys.com/2026/03/07/t...

“There once was a flame, bold and bright and tough to look at straight on. The flame had a soul and the soul was a girl and the girl turned all she touched to ash.” @crowkeys.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/19/a...

For Sunday a very brief review of poetic, dreamy mythic story A Vacancy In The Starless Realms by Rebecca Harrison in @crowkeys.bsky.social nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2023/07/i-re...

"Where were her parents? Did any friends or family make it? The girl answers nothing, only whispers the cat’s name. Mrs. Cookie." Gorgeous speculative piece by @lkardos.bsky.social in @crowkeys.bsky.social and now I am so in love with Mrs Cookie. crowcrosskeys.com/2026/02/25/c...

Plants are ravenous beasts. Just yesterday, the weeds beneath an old elm in the tower garden ate an unexpected visitor. It's a shame really, they won't get to experience today's poem. "the woman who fed an island" by Emily Rose Davies crowcrosskeys.com/2026/03/04/t...

It has been uncharacteristically sunny around the tower today. We're certain that the weather is up to something. We're uncertain whether that something is nefarious. We'll distract ourselves with today's story: "The Mirror and the Wind" by Andrew Senior crowcrosskeys.com/2026/02/28/t...