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Vanessa Fogg dreams of selkies, dragons, and gritty cyberpunk futures form her home in western Michigan. She spent years as a research scientist in molecular cell biology and now works as a freelance medical writer. She is fueled by green tea. For a complete bibliography and more, visit her website at www.vanessafogg.com. She is erratically active on Twitter at @FoggWriter
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Published Oct 25, 2019 · 2,421 words (9 minutes) · 10 likes · 1003 views
Fantasy The Fae Faerieland the Wild Hunt Mothers and daughters Autumn
Most adults say they don’t remember their younger days of breathless freedom with the Wild Hunt. But one woman has never forgotten, and now she fears she’ll lose her own daughter to their pull. Confronting the Queen of the Hunt, however, may lead to a choice she hadn’t bargained for.
Don’t miss this haunting story by the always poetic Vanessa Fogg, fiction and medical writer based in western Michigan. Her work has appeared in Liminal Stories, The Future Fire, Metaphorosis, and many more.
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Published Apr 19, 2019 · 2,449 words (9 minutes) · 1 like · 522 views
Fantasy Horror dark fantasy demons
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Published Apr 19, 2019 · 1,223 words (5 minutes) · 2 likes · 488 views
Science Fiction Family Timelines
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Published Apr 19, 2019 · 4,059 words (15 minutes) · 6 likes · 1176 views
Fantasy ghosts urban fantasy dark fiction quiet and eerie
Karen and Patrick move across the world and into a new home, only to be haunted by the faint cries of a taiya, a spirit eaten by grief so old it no longer knows the cause of its own sorrow. They might be able to starve it into disappearing—if Karen can break the pull she feels toward it. Author Vanessa Fogg has published many pieces of beautiful, haunting short fiction as well as a novella, available now from Annorlunda Books.
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Published Aug 11, 2018 · 3,284 words (12 minutes) · 1 like · 736 views
Fantasy The Moon modern fairy tale
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Published Dec 3, 2017 · 6,342 words (24 minutes) · 1 like · 953 views
Science Fiction cyberpunk adventure extreme big-wave surfing
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Published Dec 3, 2017 · 3,847 words (14 minutes) · 7 likes · 951 views
Science Fiction cyberpunk biopunk protein folding
Happy holidays! We hope everyone's had a chance to disconnect and relax a bit this holiday season. In "Disconnected," Vanessa Fogg imagines a future where always-on neuromods and nanomachines have permanently altered our relationship with technology and each other. Vanessa spent years as a research scientist in molecular cell biology, and now works as a freelance medical writer in western Michigan, where she also dreams of selkies, dragons, and gritty cyberpunk futures.
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Published Jul 19, 2017 · 3,332 words (13 minutes) · 5 likes · 887 views
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