It’s that time of year again. 2022 is winding down and it’s time to flog award-eligible work—or at least make a note of it in one handy place. So if you’re reading with an eye to nominating for the Hugos, Nebulas, Stokers, Locus, etc., etc., here is a list of my published stories in order from most to least chonky.
“The Relative Positions of Dead Things in the Dark” (approx. 6,900 words) features a family outing on a derelict spacecraft used for crime. It appears in ParSec Issue 4 (July 2022) edited by Ian Whates. You can buy the e-book (or a subscription) from PS Publishing.
“Bones Placed in Apposition” (approx. 2,300 words) is about fossils and scientists with dueling visions of the past. It appears in Underland Arcana Issue 7 (June 2022) edited by Mark Teppo. You can read the story for free online, buy the issue, or buy the anthology that collects this year’s stories.
“Ruminants” (approx. 1,300 words) is about a weird goat roaming around an even weirder California town. It appears as part of the multimedia shared world anthology Los Suelos, CA, a project conceived by Lauren Lavín, Joshua Duke, Ian Kappos, Karter Mycroft, and Barton Aikman, and released upon an unsuspecting world in February 2022. You can read my story online.
“Harriers” (approx. 1,000 words) is about a pair of werewolves on a violent mission. It appears in the flash fiction anthology The Dire Dark (November 2022) edited by Eric Fomley. You can buy the anthology as an ebook or paperback.
“Used Armor Smell” (approx. 1,000 words) is a science fiction story about a squishy human soldier and eir less vulnerable armor. It appears in the flash fiction anthology Dread Space (June 2022) edited by Eric Fomley. You can buy the anthology as an ebook or paperback. (ETA: The story is also free to read as a reprint in Bullet Points.)
“On the Beach” (approx. 900 words) is a selkie’s experience of love, loss, and climate change. It appears in Wyld Flash (June 2022) edited by Mark Bilsborough. You can read the story for free online.
“In Transit, Beautiful” (approx. 600 words) is a SF-adjacent tale of space junk and determining your place in the universe. It appears in The Antihumanist Issue 3 (January 2022) edited by Tim Dubber. You can read or download the story for free online.
“Detox” (100 words) is about what happens when you’re locked out of your virtual reality. It appears in Martian (August 2022) edited by Eric Fomley. You can read the story for free online later this month or buy the issue.
“Tethered, in Darkness” (100 words) is about a generation starship’s passenger facing the end of the voyage. It appears in Martian (April 2022) edited by Eric Fomley. You can read the story for free online or buy the issue or annual anthology.
I did have other publications in Martian Year One, Underland Arcana Deck Two, and the forthcoming Holiday Leftovers, but those are reprints. I’m no longer eligible for the Astrounding Award (in the nearish future, I will be posting some of the authors who are). For purposes of citizenship and geography, I’m a USian living in Pennsylvania.
Whatever stories and authors you end up nominating, happy reading!
A. P. Howell 
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