Template:FeaturedAuthor/September 2018

IreneStark2k17 is a short story author who has been featured multiple times on the NoSleep Podcast and once on CREEPY. She has also been published in four short story anthologies under various pseudonyms. She prefers to write super natural horror and has lately begun incorporating LGBT+ themes into her writing. When she is not writing, Irene prefers playing D&D, where she hones her story telling craft as the Dungeon Mistress of her group. She is also unabashedly a trans woman.

Her top three stories are:

Parchment – a piece of flash fiction which is one of her most experimental pieces, regarding a peculiar parchment.

The Boy Who Cried Sheep – The second of six stories in what she calls “The Lenoresfield Saga”, it revolves around a young boy who sees an imaginary sheep while playing outside one day.

Ten Miles from Vaughn – The first of her new wave of stories, this one centers around two gay men and a runaway child who helps bring them together again.

Among her many projects, Irene is also a writer for the new fantasy podcast, “The Highlands” which follows the adventures of the guardians of a magical spell book and the drama it causes. She also is a contributor to the fractopian anthology “UbiquiCity 2”. Currently she’s also in the middle of writing a novel for an urban fantasy novel about a hard boiled detective, a greaser vampire, and several fairies.