Kay Vaindal: weird fiction

2026

Hearsten Lake in Remains, issue 4

2025

Sundrinker in Fraidy Cat Quarterly, volume 7

Watermen in Translunar Travelers Lounge*

The Things We Should Have Asked the Baby in ergot.*

The Void Bites in Seize the Press*

Nowhere on The Drabblecast*

2024

Jared Chapel’s The First Car Ballet on The Drabblecast*

Esther of Prettyboy in The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird – Dark Matter Ink
–Awarded a 2024 Literary Nasty for Best Anthology–

Visitors’ Guide: Personal Hygiene on Jones Atoll in Strange Locations: An Anthology of Dark Travel Guides – Apex

The Apple in Death’s Other Kingdom: Horror Tales of World War I – The Scythian Wolf Press

Pig House in Seize the Press*
–Selected for Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror of the Year, vol. 3 from Tenebrous Press–
–Selected for ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction from Violet Lichen Books (Apex)–

Older

Requiem Shark in Thank You For Joining the Algorithm– Tenebrous Press

The Seventh Instar in This World Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Horror Stories about Bugs– From Beyond Press
–Selected for the first issue of the Connoisseur, Whiskey Tit press

The King of the Universe Dies Again in Dark Matter magazine – Issue 014 (Read free @ Dark Matter Jukebox!)*

Algae Day in Gaia Lit – Issue 02 (Fall 2021)*

Upcoming

Coming spring 2026: The Tightrope Walker in King Ludd’s Rag

Coming spring 2026: An Influencer Asks a Very Sunburnt Middle-Aged Man How He Affords His Rolls Royce in SLUGGER

Coming summer 2026: Salt Beet in Chthonic Matter Quarterly

Coming summer 2026: Kettleman in Weird Horror

Coming soon: All That’s Good Does Not Prevail in Fraidy Cat Quarterly

Coming soon: An American Execution in Seize the Press

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updated 3.16.26