Short Fiction


"Like Origami in Water is a hauntingly beautiful tale of loss. Damien Walters Grintalis writes with a distinct voice, yet one which contains whispers of Sturgeon, Bradbury and Ellison."

2012

In Her Arms of Dresden Pale - Daily Science Fiction

And When the Innocence Falls to the Floor - Penumbra eMag

In Exchange for Sorrow - Kaleidotrope

A Tear on the Cheek of the Frozen - Ice Picks: Most Chilling Stories from the Ice Plaza

They Make of You a Monster - Beneath Ceaseless Skies Forthcoming

A Handful of Glass, a Sky Without Stars - Daily Science Fiction Forthcoming

And Down Will Come Baby, Madmen and All - Buzzy Mag Forthcoming

To Be Undone of Such Small Things - Daily Science Fiction Forthcoming

Glass Boxes and Clockwork Gods - Electric Velocipede Issue 25 Forthcoming*

When Dark Things Sleep - Chaosium's Undead and Unbound Anthology Forthcoming


*In the interest of full disclosure, I sold the story to EV before I joined the staff.

2011

Like Origami in Water - Daily Science Fiction (On Ellen Datlow's list of Honorable Mentions for Best Horror of the Year volume 4)

The Web of Legends - Arcane Anthology

Running Empty in a Land of Decay - Niteblade Issue 15

A Glimpse of Nothing in Silvered Glass - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 50

To Keep You Safe - Necrotic Tissue Issue 14

Dead Things, Pretty Things - The Stray Branch

2010

Lilacs - Murky Depths Issue 14

April Showers May Bring Sorrow - Everyday Weirdness

The Depository - Bards & Sages Quarterly

Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down - Emerald Tales

Dead Men in Old Books - Short, Fast, and Deadly

Maybe Kind of Magic - Crash

Plush - Copper Wire

Poe's Grave - January 19, 2010 - Short, Fast, and Deadly

Sorrow in the Shape of a Soldier's Smile - Danse Macabre

The Curse of Being Pretty - Liquid Imagination


Yellow - Weirdyear