Here’s a short story I wrote for a Reedsy contest prompt: Write a story in the form of a letter, or several letters sent back and forth.
It’s called “Epitaphs to Elsa.”

https://blog.reedsy.com/short-story/e62khb

Originally, it came from notes for a different story in a loosely connected series of horror shorts I’m developing, possibly titled Concubine, Sinister where each story will circle around the idea of loving a monster in some form.

This one was a challenge: I started with raw first-person POV entries and had to reshape them into a believable correspondence between two people, one of whom may or may not still be alive. It’s dark, layered, and a little weird in the best way. It is also a little bit outside of my normal style but I really liked the monster concept and the overall storyline I wrote this too.

If you read it, I’d love to know what you think happened.
(Or just give it a like so I can feel mildly validated by strangers on the internet.)