Explore E. G. Ware's Published Works
Poetry
sloe-slow
Gone Lawn Journal of Word-Things
2026
I mean her and she means me
Blood + Honey Lit
2026
good baby
Blood + Honey Lit
2026
pink, pink, tiny pink
Blood + Honey Lit
2026
just love that about you
Blood + Honey Lit
2026
A Hymn to the Mother-Sire
The Dread Literary Review
2026
Mandragora
The Dread Literary Review
2026
no slack in it
The Dread Literary Review
2026
requisitioned
The Dread Literary Review
2026
Fiction & Narratives
The She That Was
The Alchemist's Cabin
2026
Beatriu the Builder
Fractured Lit
Forthcoming
Collected Fiction
A man postpones his future one morning at a time.
Micah lives among pawn slips, unopened letters, and promises deferred. Convinced he can decide later whether to destroy himself or begin again, he drifts through the wolf hour between despair and hope. But when Mara enters his life, carrying her own quiet mysteries, the ordinary world begins to shimmer with unexpected grace.
Set in laundromats, cramped apartments, and the small sanctuaries of shared routine, this haunting short fiction meditates on love, faith, memory, and the cost of survival. Tomorrow is about the bargains we make with ourselves, the ghosts we feed, and the moments when a simple declaration becomes an act of resurrection.
A Dirge for Acantha Merrin | Part chamber-piece, part theological grief-tragedy:
When a mother refuses the finality of her daughter’s death, devotion curdles into ritual, and love becomes a force that deforms what it seeks to preserve.
Set within a decaying estate and a house that remembers too much, the story unfolds as a kind of passion play, asking what it costs to call the dead back, and what must be broken when the body is mistaken for a dwelling rather than a door.
Jo and Bishop investigate hauntings; the kind that leave residue in buildings, landscapes, and people. Rooms that won’t cool. Ground that won’t absolve.
They know the routines. They know each other. They know how to survive cases that don’t want to be understood.
But Bishop has always believed that some sites aren’t hauntings at all. That they’re overlaps. Porous places. Fault lines where timelines grind against each other until the air starts to blister, where meaning weeps through as damp, where the world misfiles itself.
His doctrine doesn’t make him cautious. It makes him patient. Devout. Hungry. Belief for him, isn’t a guardrail; it’s a pressure system. He’s spent years treating these places like questions God might actually vouchsafe an answer to.
On a job in Arizona, the theory stops being theoretical. The overlap might be real, the doorway might swing wide. And Bishop might make a choice he’s been circling for most of his life: to step fully inside, not as a mistake or an affliction, but as an act of grace.
Longview is about intimacy under pressure. About faith as a chronic condition. About the violence of wanting answers badly enough to cross the final demarcation.
Current Projects
The Memory of Flowers
A medieval eco-gothic novel, set in the 12th-century Pyrenean foothills, blending pastoral realism, folk horror, and mysticism.
Sancha lives where faith presses close, the old, the new, and that in between. The Memory of Flowers follows her life as she contends with an unnamed malady, and a lineage shaped by devotion, fear, and buried violence.
Black on Her Tongue
An upcoming poetry collection: Examining how early attachment anxiety bled into the author's adulthood and unknowingly shaped a series of choices. Through charged poetics, the work traces how harm takes hold in what felt like love, and how a voice strains towards its own return.