Writings
The Seconds Between Light and Sound
A shiver of fear spools down your spine, snagging against long-buried secrets. Certainly the Goddess will understand why you and Sindr had no choice but to do what you did. You study the Eternal Storm a moment longer before pushing aside your fear. You are also a descendent f the Goddess. You will prove this.
The Transition of OSOOSI
An ambitious young hacker seeks out the Anansi- a legendary hacktivist collective- for help on overthrowing the tecno-authoritarian American government. But will he pay their asking price?
Sweet House
For decades, a house has protected its owner, weathering her mercurial moods, chasing off undesirable suitors, and eating the corpses she leaves behind. When it becomes apparent that she can’t control her bloodlust, Sweet House decides to do the unthinkable. It knows better than most, that things that die don’t necessarily stay dead.
Those That Sow and Those That Reap
On a nimbus of decay, it emerged from the dark recesses of her closet and crept spiderlike toward her threadbare rug. Humid cold wafted from its shadowy body. The reek of wet mulch and grave soil slithered into her nostrils and she shivered. Their eyes locked. Hers: wide, panicked, and brown; it: reptilian, golden, and ancient.
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About Me
Ozzie M. Gartrell is a librarian, speculative fiction writer, gamer, and lover of all things spooky and creepy. Her fiction has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, FIYAH Literary Magazine, Midnight & Indigo magazine, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 2. Her work was nominated for an Ignyte Award for Best Novelette, and was listed in Locus Magazine’s 2020 Recommended Reading List.
When not writing, she can be found actively avoiding social situations somewhere north of Seattle, Washington with her menagerie of tiny battle yorkies and eldritch cats.