Pauline Chow

n January 2024, “Dragging Bones from the Ocean” was published in Cosmic Monthly Horror Issue #43. A ghost ship tells the story of his last voyage. Growing out of the hubris of men, hatred and evil enveloped the vessel and humanity. I wrote the first draft as a prologue for a trunked manuscript, a 90K… Read more: Dragging Bones from the Ocean (CHM #43 Jan 2024)

Writing needs to be a contact exercise. In the summer, I wrote a story with four other writers in a round robin for the 2023 HP Lovecraft Film Festival and Cthulhu Con in Portland, Oregon. There are two other festivals — Rhode Island and Mississippi. We started with a theme “space” and spun off from… Read more: Writing in a Round Robin: Arkham World’s Fair – The Challenge From Beyond (HP Lovecraft Film Festival & Cthulhu Con 2023)

My horror short story You’re Not Wrong is featured in the international anthology Murder on her Mind Volume 1 from Wicked Shadow Press. Also, Murder On Her Mind Volume 2. (Amazon affiliate links). The story is about a single-mom burnt out by the demands of life, takes matters into her own hands. Written in an… Read more: You’re Not Wrong (Murder on her Mind, Anthology)

The short story “Office Friends” is published in the Chamber Magazine, May 6, 2022 issue, a monthly dark fiction and poetry online magazine. Read the story online. As the protagonist prepares for an important meeting in her corporate offices, she is over-powered by her senses. Is she imagining things or a reaction to stress? I… Read more: Office Friends (The Chamber Magazine)

Please read on 50-Word Stories, published on May 5, 2022. My motivations to write the story. A summary of my internal dialogue while getting ghosted inside a friendship that I thought had been rekindled. I stayed in this person’s home for a few months: paid rent for the room, did the dishes, and hired a… Read more: Cutting Expectations (50-Word Stories)