• A.M. Sutter is an exotics veterinarian who uses her experiences with weird wildlife to weave stories of ecological horror and environmental dread.

  • A Slow and Quiet Extinction is a collection of thirteen short stories that explore loss, isolation, humanity’s relationship with nature, and the thin line between selflessness and selfishness.

    Though the tales stand alone, they are connected by these themes and by the normalcy of their characters — these are situations that could happen to anyone, anywhere, any time.

    And, monsters aside, they often do.

  • Summaries of each short story in A Slow and Quiet Extinction are available below! You’re also welcome to browse snippets of her flash fiction, available here and links to works for sale here

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In SHE BURIES YOU ON TUESDAY, a woman is haunted by a terrible lullaby after a funeral. Trying to escape both the song and her grief, she drives to a strange hotel bisected by train tracks.
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In ALL HOUSES ARE HAUNTED, Sarina deals with alienation by visiting an unsettling house that built itself like a Venus fly trap in order to lure her into its bowels.
In CARCINOGENESIS, a blue snow falls from the sky, a possible chemical attack from an unknown assailant. Then the family dog begins to mutate, growing teeth and tongues and limbs.
In ROOT SYSTEM, a woman struggles with her failing marriage. Then a miracle occurs: a plant-like child sprouts from their garden. Its strange appetites, however, make the marital rift worse.
In LIMINAL MESSAGING, a woman driving home from work is taunted by a prophetic billboard. As the predictions become more harrowing, Sharonda can’t shake the feeling they’re meant for her.
In ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES, Sam mourns the loss of her family. But when something resembling her wife appears on the trail camera, Sam searches the nearby bog for answers.
In KILLDEER TOWER, Rosa, a member of the last remains of humanity living in a tower, breaks the rules in order to find out what happened to her missing father figure.
In A HORSE WALKS INTO A BAR, Terri finds himself the victim of midnight drunken foolishness and ends up at a small-town emergency room. Then the screaming begins.
In CARCINIZATION, city buildings tear themselves from their foundations and migrate away on spindly legs. Amy fights to return to her home and her family as the world crumbles to death and chaos.
In AH'M FEART, Steven wrestles with his cultural separation from his family on a mountain while something enormous—and deeply personal—hunts him.
In MURMURATIONS, a parasitic infection erupts, destroying its victims' eyes and free wills and forcing a paranoid Caleb into hiding away from those he loves.
In A SLOW & QUIET EXTINCTION, Myles struggles to survive in a world overrun by the advancing tides, never resting for more than a few hours to avoid the watery death of so many before him.