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Samantha Pilecki

Reader. Writer. Librarian.

"You need a shower," said Julie

White Wolves, 1887

His cough is as wet as the Pacific. A sound of sickness. His eyes are on me, daring me to turn.

It had happened before.

The first time, she was ten. It was an accident

The Georgie O’Keefe museum is smaller than you expected.

Three, Seven, Ace

She'd been to Paris, and that's all she ever talked about. Maybe it was all she could remember.

Roser and the Guide to the Inexplicable

Kenny Roser. Red-headed, sweaty faced, Kenny Roser. He grew up in a brown and beige split-level...

Estelle knew going to the movies alone was a bad idea. But what else was she supposed to do?

There's a better way to wash your hair, and it's not with a bar of soap.

Fear Is The Wind

It was the bathroom that got to me. It looked like something out of a campy slasher movie, all yellow-tiled walls and with a sloped concrete floor and a drain in the center.

Losing your faith is a lot like losing your best friend. Millie knew this because she lost both on the same day.

When signs come, follow them. Anything can be the key to a Narnia. Any spider can be the one with the gift-giving bite. Any spoken word can be a spell.

If she was dead, she couldn’t be a bad mother.

I don't need the weather report to know it's going to be a suck-ass day.

Although Chris didn’t want to tear himself away from the party, the doorbell was insistent.

She tried to live without imagination. It was better that way.

Kat worked at the Library. She loved books. She loved her job, which required working with books;

Like a sigh in her mind. Guilt, guilt, guilty.

Modern Eurydice

I wake up and she’s there, her head tucked under my chin.
Sometimes, this is the best part of the day.

Isak Dinesen, your plate is empty...

Short Stories

Haunted Waters Press Short Shorts Award Winner

Burningword

"Blossum Street"

Ricky's Backyard

Five 2 One

"Bulletin Board"

WORK Literary Magazine

Welter 55 Contest Finalist

"Everyday Signs"

Dual Coast Magazine

"Fear Is the Wind"

Vagabondage Press

El Portal

"Lion Let Loose"

A Fable Online

New Millennium Writings Finalist

"Lisa Sees the Buffalo"

Transmundane Press

"Lunker"

A Prick of the Spindle

Poetry

"Modern Eurydice"

Fickle Muses

"Music Truck"

Two Words For

Yemassee

"Petra With Punk Band"

Iris Literary Journal

"Roser and the Guide to the Inexplicable"

New Lit Salon Press

"Sally and the Goldfish"

Stonecrop

Writer's Digest Short Story Competition Finalist

101 Words

Typehouse

On Loss: An Anthology

"Three, Seven, Ace"

Kansas City Voices

"White Wolves, 1887"

Timberline Review

Writing District Contest Winner

Poetry Quarterly

Lucky Jefferson

Interviews and More

To Horror's Fearless Females

Weirdness in Writing

A Conversation with Sarah K Stevens

Boxes and Buffalo

Interview with Samantha Pilecki

Haunted Waters Press Interview

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