I’m one of those people who intensely dislikes spoilers (even the story description on the back cover gives me headaches), but at the same time, I want to be able to accommodate the people who need to know what’s coming. This was my compromise with myself. Please see below for any relevant content warnings. Because there’s a warning for it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s prevalent in the story, just present. If you think I’ve missed something, please send me an email through my contact page.

I’ll warn for graphic sex scenes, but I won’t warn for the existence of prominent LGBTQIA+ characters nor for the presence of profanity. Queer people don’t need a warning label, and although it’s not ubiquitous, assume that I’ll swear at least once.

No content warnings for individual poems, but I might set up warnings for my collections.

[Update: As of April 2023, I’m going to try something new by putting content warnings on the copyright page or, for collections, at the end of the book and indicated in the Table of Contents. This site will continue to be updated regularly. I will note below if there will be a special page of CWs.]

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The Thorns Series (in book order):

THORNS: Sexual assault, dubious consent, off-screen torture, graphic sex and violence (not widespread)

ROSE RED: Miscarriage, sexual assault of a minor, medical assault, animal death, misogyny, homophobia, infidelity, graphic sex and violence (not widespread)

BLUEBIRDS: Homophobia, infidelity, dubious consent, graphic sex and violence (not widespread)

PUPPETEER: Internalized and external homophobia/biphobia/transphobia, magical drug use, coerced sexual assault, dubious consent, physical and psychological torture, animal death, misogyny, suicide, graphic sex and violence (more pervasive)

CROOKED HOUSE: Physical and psychological torture, suicide, sex work, gore, graphic sex and violence (not widespread), self-harm, infidelity, boss/employee

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Standalone Novels/Collections (in alphabetical order):

DEAD ENDS: Morbidity, sexual violence, suicide, murder, grief, death, decay

DEEP DOWN: Apocalypse, child death, animal death, graphic violence and body horror

DRIFT: Sexual abuse, incestuous desire, infidelity, captivity

IN THE DOLLHOUSE WE ALL WAIT: Rape, murder, physical and psychological torture, medical experimentation (extreme body modification, including amputation), drugs, bodily excretions (scat, vomit, blood, pus, etc.), coercion into complicity, human trafficking, forced exhibitionism for voyeurs, necrophilia, suggested incest/pedophilia in past, ‘the rich really are different’

MASQUE: Historical surgery, medical drug use, physical difference caused by chronic illness, infant separated from family, children in distress, childbirth, bloody murder, bodily fluids, prejudice, infidelity

MAY COOLER HEADS PREVAIL: Vigilantism, murder, fire

A NIGHTMARE FOR ALL SEASONS: Apocalypse, body horror, cannibalism, child death, crime spree, exhibitionism, explicit sexuality, infidelity, murder, pregnancy, sexual coercion through mystical means and otherwise, sickness

NOCTURNE: Bullying, implied abuse, anorexic/purging behavior

OUT OF CURIOSITY AND HUNGER: Animal death, callous disregard for life, murder

QUESTION NOT MY SALT: Cringe to extreme horror, cannibalism and auto-cannibalism, forced consumption of bodily fluids, forced participation in sexual exhibitionism and voyeurism in view of family, forced underage drinking, inebriated sex, sexual assault (no on-page penetration), graphic violence and torture, vomiting and forced consumption of vomit, amputation, on-page bathroom habits, disordered eating behavior

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Short Stories (in alphabetical order):

“Arms Race”: N/A

“The Behavioral Pattern of the Displaced Siberian Siren”: Cryptid sex, crushing, supernatural coercion

“Birth”: Rough childbirth

“Blackberry Wine”: N/A

“A Bladder Full”: Bladder horror, urine

“Blood Mother”: Fertility cult, teen pregnancy due to breeding program, off-screen rape, forced birth, pregnancy horror, gore, extreme endometriosis

“A Bug in the Design”: Child death

“Caregiver”: Death and dying, dementia/Alzheimer’s, elder abuse, homophobia/transphobia, quiet torture

“Changing Room”: fatphobia, body dysmorphia, dwelling on weight issues

“Chrysalis in Chrysanthemum”: Pregnancy in a minor by incest (off-page), involuntary hospitalization, historical pregnancy body horror

“Come In From the Cold”: N/A

“Courtship”: Morbid fixation, misogyny, abuse, chronic disease

“The Cut”: N/A

“Delirium”: Vomit and shit, child death

“The Devil’s Bathtub”: Sexual situations/fantasies

“Dissolution”: Slimy body horror

“Drip”: Compelled suicide, depression, infidelity

“Eat His Heart”: Bloody violence, cannibalism, occult revenge

“Eviratum”: Child in peril, child abuse, alcoholism, castration

“Exile”: Body horror

“Eye Spy”: Implied sexual coercion, toxic work environment

“Floaters”: Decomposition

“Footprints”: N/A

“From Black Clouds”: Homophobia, transphobia, apocalypse, animal death, execution

“Full”: Body horror, arthropod infestation, vomit, skin necrosis, post-apocalyptic

“The Glitter of Bile”: Body horror, storms

“Glory to God”: Monster-fucking, abuse of undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers, and unhoused, trafficking (voluntary sex work but kept in captivity), unsafe sex practices, menstrual sex

“Graphite”: Sexual coercion, sexual body horror, horrotica

“The Green Room”: N/A

“Growing Things”: body horror, trypophobia

“Hell Come Home”: Unseen violence, domestic violence, child abuse

“Indigestion”: Body horror, using medication incorrectly, slime, divorce/custody battle

“Infiltration”: Body horror, cosmic horror, bloody imagery

“The Last Ride of Sutton Purnell”: Child death, extreme body horror

“Lullaby”: N/A

“Marginalia”: N/A

“Nuisance Notifications”: Child abduction, child death, mass shooting

“Of the Many Faces”: Violence to minors, slimy body horror, sexual content

“Origami”: Demon master/human slave, dubcon, forced feelings, body horror

“The Plank in Thine Own”: Religious-themed torture, mild body horror, sexual content

“Predatory”: Pedophile, mass murder, violence against children, violence by children

“Ragged”: Children bullying children, violence against children by a child

“Resin”: Homophobia, teen death, references to sexual behavior of a minor

“Second Chance”: N/A

“Show Me”: Misogyny, domestic abuse, trans body horror, surgical horror, sexual content

“Sight Unseen”: N/A

“The Sisters of Our Perpetual Wounds”: Body horror, bug infestation, post-apocalyptic, skin necrosis, implied sexual assault

“Snot”: N/A

“A Still and Weathered Stone”: Morbid fixation

“Swallowed”: Child harm, child death, body horror

“A Swirling Light”: Child in peril

“Tastes of Desperation”: Supernatural sexual coercion (adult, implied minor), consumption of strange meat and blood

“The Thing That Crawls”: Homophobia, infidelity, domestic violence, military service, sexual content

“Turning Tail”: Child in peril

“Wandering Lights”: Mild harm to children

“The Warmth of Many Skins”: Misogyny, graphic violence, attempted sexual assault, animal death

“Weed Killer”: Mass death

“Zombie Lesbian Bed Death”: Graphic zombie sex, castration, dismemberment, decay, murder