Shell St. James

Shell St. James is a Massachusetts native living in an 1895 farmhouse in rural North Carolina with her musician soulmate, feline muse and a benevolent ghost. She occupies her days taming a murder of crows and spends her nights spinning stories, while listening for the footsteps of departed residents.

Her short stories have appeared in:

La Presa Literary Journal

Epoch Press

The Elephant Ladder

The Periodical Forlorn

86 Logic

The Spectre Review

3 Moon Magazine

Night Terrors 12 (Scare Street Publishing)

The Vanishing Point

Theme of Absence

Hippocampus Literary Magazine

The Writing Quarterly

Quibble Literary Magazine

An excerpt from her YA mystery novel, "The Mermaid of Agawam Bay", will be appearing in Shenandoah Magazine's Fall 2021 issue. A collection of spooky stories, titled "Seven Crows’ Secrets", is available to read on Kindle Vella.

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