Aaron Vlek

Aaron Vlek is a storyteller whose work focuses primarily on the trickster as bringer of delight and proponent of disquieting humours. Many of her short stories delve into the original tales of the jinn and a universal imagining of the Native American Coyote. Some works are historical in setting, while others hail from the contemporary and urban landscape. She indulges more and more in the reimagining of classic themes of Lovecraftian horror and has a keen fondness for the occult detective. Aaron is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College where she spent most of her time writing. Today she lives in Berkeley, California.

  • Hyena Woman

    My people have always hunted the banks of the Happy River.  Since the Before Times we have pitched our tents between the deep rushes at the water’s edge.  The tall yellow grasses hid the ones we hunted. We wore their hides, their meat kept us strong, and their pelts warmed us at night. Their teeth…

  • The Reed’s Lament

    Listen to the story told by the reed, of being separated. Since I was cut from the reed bed, I have made this crying sound.   Jallaludin Rumi   I had loved you forever it seemed. Your glorious name was music, your dark liquid eyes a miracle, and the soft velvet of your flesh my home…

  • He Knocked so Softly

    Ada Mae stood at the kitchen sink looking out the window. She just couldn’t believe she’d been living in this house for almost seventy years. She glanced at the clock over the stove; the girls would be arriving in just a little over an hour. Girls, she chuckled.  Girls she’d gone to school with, girls…