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Notes from the desk—updates, reflections, and insights into the creative process.
This is where ideas take shape before they become stories.
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“Pied Piper Pest Control” Submitted to Glossy Planet’s Free Space Challenge
Alicia K. Anspaugh submits “Pied Piper Pest Control,” a humorous supernatural flash fiction story, to Glossy Planet Magazine’s Free Space Challenge.
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1 day ago1 min read
“2:13 A.M.” Submitted to Glossy Planet Magazine’s Doomscroll Challenge
Alicia K. Anspaugh submits supernatural horror story “2:13 A.M.” to Glossy Planet Magazine’s 2026 Doomscroll flash fiction challenge.
aliciaspaintbrush
Aug 161 min read
Alicia K. Anspaugh Submits “To Quell the Quiet” to the History Repeating Writing Challenge
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.
aliciaspaintbrush
May 151 min read
Submitted a new short story to Vocal’s “I Made It Worse” writing challenge.
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
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May 131 min read
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