Juleigh Howard-Hobson

1 published story

An active member of the HWA, Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s words have appeared in Amazing Stories, Dead Lands, Under Her Skin (Black Spot) Vastarien: Women’s Horror (Grimscribe), and many other places. She is a Best New Weird Award winner. Her latest book is Curses, Black Spells and Hexes (Alien Buddha). She makes her haunted home in the Pacific Northwest.
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Stories

July 16, 2026

Songs for the Drowning (A Mermaid Mother’s Tale)

I search out the damaged people. It’s a favor to them, and the world, when I come. I don’t hurt them, don’t frighten them. I find them sleeping fitfully under the bridges, huddled in nightmares down by the piers. I sing…

Songs for the Drowning (A Mermaid Mother’s Tale)