Dori Lumpkin

graduate student, short fiction writer, lover of all things speculative fiction

AL, United States

Selected work (6 publications)

The Deeps (Spindle House), 2023

AmoretAfter nights like those—the good nights, their best work—they tend not to visit, giving me the proper time to recover for the next. And so when I get the chance, I wander, keeping myself tucked tight away in places only I can fit...

psychological horror

Marrow Magazine, 2023

The Ladies' Supper Club of New BanebridgeThese women weren’t a threat. There had been stories on the radio recently about feral women, women who were so desperate for New Skin and New Faces that they would rip people limb-from-limb, attacking them however they could manage.

science fiction

Sage Cigarettes Magazine, 2023

Like Glass Between TeethAraminta grew up with a mirror in her room. Only, it wasn’t a mirror, and she knew that, she did, but she wanted to believe that it was so badly that she almost let herself forget what it really was. Almost.

Cream Scene Carnival Magazine, 2023

Blood BrimmedYou feel the weight of his hands around your neck before you can see him, and those hands do what they do best. They crush, crush, crush against your trachea, cutting off your air supply and aiming to kill.

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sensitivity readingI am available for sensitivity reading as a member of the LGBTQIA+ and as an autistic person with a heavily stigmatized personality disorder!

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Editing/CritiqueI'd be more than happy to look over your work and provide a basic critique and give you feedback on your piece! I mainly focus on genre work, so fantasy, science fiction, horror, that sort of thing!

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