It is called “Lucy of the Spiders”, and it is available for free online in the Winter 2010 issue: http://darkvalentine.net/index.php/issues/
Dark Valentine is a great publication, with every story accompanied by original art. My story has a truly cool image done by Zephyrhant.
I wrote this after re-reading all of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, so I was in a very magical mood at the time. Give it a read and let me know what you think.
Thank you for your kind words about Dark Valentine Magazine. Your story was indeed magical and exactly the sort of dark fiction we look for each issue. We were happy to publish it!
Thanks, Katherine! I look forward to working with you again.
Hi, I loved the cover art and your story seem interesting. However, the link is dead. So I was wondering… if you could post it up again in a blog or something…
Thanks
Pauline,
Dark Valentine seems to have stopped publishing and taken their website down. I’ll see if I can find out what happened and maybe then I can post the story online. Thanks!
And yes, the art is great. I was very pleased to see it tied to one of my stories.