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

  • WHAT WE LOCK BEHIND THE GATES: A 90,000 Adult Horror Novel

    Do you ever wonder what’s past the gates?

    Wynn has always wondered, but she’s too busy scraping together a life in a world whose sun was consumed by darkness long ago. When she runs into a woman with stories of what lie beyond the gates, though, she finds herself the unwilling recipient of the key to open them and rescue the world from the ever-present darkness. 

    Now she must track down the other keybearers; but the darkness is alive, and it is hungry. It hunts them across the miles—across claustrophobic caves and vast forests, haunted waters and silent cities, abandoned train yards and forgotten graveyards. They can either try to outrun it or become a part of it. Yet for now, they must take the first step: stand in front of their looming gates with key in hand and hear the warning every child knows by heart:

    We never go out of the light.

  • 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.