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A science fiction romance adventure featuring time travel, betrayal, and second chances. See You Tomorrow has been submitted to Inkitt's Second Chance Romance Contest.

Author and artist Alicia Anspaugh explores slasher horror, creature horror, and sci-fi horror with her contest entries My Waters and A Hundred Lives for Vocal Plus’s Stay Awhile writing contest.

Writer and artist Alicia K. Anspaugh submits her speculative fiction short story “To Quell the Quiet” to Glossy Planet Magazine’s May 2026 History Repeating writing challenge.

A burned-out night-shift janitor tries to help a mysterious captive creature escape a secret underground lab, only to discover he has restarted an alien invasion delayed for sixty years. Read this dark sci-fi horror short story from Alicia’s Desk.

This latest sci-fi horror piece, The Road to Hell, follows a tired night-shift janitor whose attempt to help a mysterious captive creature escape from a secret underground lab accidentally restarts an alien invasion that had been delayed for sixty years. This story was written for the challenge prompt: Write a confession about a situation where you tried to fix something and only made it worse. I had a lot of fun balancing dark humor, escalating consequences, and cosmic horro

My work is heading to Demicon this year—both in the writing contest and the art show. While I won’t be there in person, my stories and artwork will be. If you’re attending, I hope you get a chance to check them out—and thank you for supporting indie creators and original work. More previews and updates coming soon. #Demicon #ArtShow #WritingContest #IndieArtist #IndieAuthor #FantasyArt #SciFiArt #CreativeLife #AliciasDesk

Two original short stories—Outpost 37 and a fake news-themed piece—submitted to the Demicon Writing Contest, exploring isolation, perception, and narrative.

A new Outpost 37 science fiction story submitted to the Demicon Writing Contest, expanding the series world.

A speculative fiction short story exploring truth and perception, currently submitted to the Demicon Writing Contest.

A new Outpost 37 story exploring isolation and mystery, submitted to the Demicon Writing Contest.

A speculative fiction short story exploring truth and perception, submitted to the Demicon Writing Contest.

Dungeons and Dragons Art Show in Des Moines, Iowa at The Fremont featuring local artists, fantasy artwork, and creative storytelling inspired by D&D. Free all-ages art event with dragon dice giveaway and community art exhibit.

Hey Folks, This is from a couple months back, we are hard at work on Issue #2 !!! #celestialimprintpublishing #issuetwo Hey Guys! So...

Hey Everybody, Guess who is writing the wrap around story for this anthology?? You guessed it, Me!! Im so excited!! BTW, They are looking...

Hello All, Tonight we are sitting down with Local author of the new Novel Shifting Tides, Destini Taylor ! We will be chatting about how...

Hey All, We are BACK! Dear lordy that was an insane ride! Thank you guys for bein so patient , life craziness got in the way of...

Hey All, I'm excited to announce the first ever #giveaway #contest by Alicia's Desk! *Winners will be notified by email(thru...

Hey All, Welcome back to Spooky Storytime by Alicia's Desk! Today we have a short micro fiction on a villains backstory: The Swamp Witch:...

Hey All, So Today we are chatting about the project that iv been mentioning for awhile. I have 2 stories entered into the Kindle Vella...

Hey Folks, Welcome back to Alicia's Desk Updates! There will be 2 updates this week as Wubb & I were under the weather last week(And he...