Category: Publication
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“Lakeside”
Issue 9 of Underland Arcana is now available and I’m pleased that my short story “Lakeside” is included. I wrote the first draft of this story for an annual flash fiction writing contest; one of the prompts involved camping. For personal reasons, I was very happy about this. My family was in the process of…
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“When Mastered, a Graceful Accomplishment”
Bicycles & Broomsticks, the ninth volume in Elly Blue’s Bikes in Space series, is now out in the world. (You can buy the paperback or ebook direct from the publisher or your favored retailer.) I’m very proud that my historical fantasy “When Mastered, a Graceful Accomplishment” is part of the table of contents. I had…
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“Used Armor Smell” reprinted
My flash story about rugged battle armor and its less rugged wearer has been reprinted in the military science fiction webzine Bullet Points. I’m pleased the story is available to read for free (it appeared last year in the anthology Dread Space and was a nominee for the Brave New Weird Award).
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Holiday Leftovers
A while back, B Cubed Press had an open call for an anthology of holiday stories. Alternative Holidays came out a few months ago, but the editors (Alicia Hilton and Bob Brown) decided they wanted to produce an overflow anthology. And so there’s now also Holiday Leftovers. As with other B Cubed titles, a portion…
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Underland Arcana: Deck Two
This month, Underland Press released Underland Arcana: Deck Two, collecting the Underland Arcana stories from the past year. “Bones Placed in Apposition” is among them. I am very pleased to have this dapper hammerhead sitting on my bookshelf. If you would also like this dapper hammerhead sitting on your bookshelf or swimming on your e-reader,…
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“Harriers”
The Dire Dark is out today, the latest in Shacklebound’s series of flash fiction anthologies. My story about werewolves in a military company is what happens when you start a story too soon, then decide that the opening bit works just fine as a little standalone (and are lucky to find an editor who agrees).…
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“Detox”
I have a little tale of addiction recovery or living with a disability in Martian Issue 6. (One of the fun things about drabbles is that they’re so short they really highlight how the reader is an active participant in creating the story. There’s just not space to spell everything out.) You can buy the…
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“The Relative Positions of Dead Things in the Dark”
Last week, ParSec released Issue 4. Individual issues and subscriptions are for sale from PS Publishing. I’m very pleased that my short story, “The Relative Positions of Dead Things in the Dark,” is part of the lineup. The main character’s first published appearance was in Wyld Flash a couple years ago; we’ll see if I…
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“Bones Placed in Apposition”
My short story “Bones Placed in Apposition” is available in the Summer issue of Underland Arcana. It’s free to read online, or you can buy it as an ebook or softcover. Issue 7 also includes stories by Scott Edelman, W. T. Paterson, Ben Curl, Mike Robinson, Eric Witchey, D. Thea Baldrick, and Mattia Ravasi. Some…
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“Used Armor Smell”
Today you can pick up a copy of Dread Space, an anthology of flash length dark military science fiction stories. My story “Used Armor Smell,” about armor more rugged than its wearer, is included. When choosing pronouns for nonbinary characters in the past, I’ve defaulted to they/them. It’s a somewhat lazy decision: most nonbinary folks…
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“On the Beach”
My short tale of grief, climate change, and selkies is live on the Wyldblood website. I’ve always liked the idea of a selkie (or similar fae creature) hitting the spousal jackpot; but it’s hard to be completely optimistic in the current (literal and figurative) climate.
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“Tethered, In Darkness” online
My drabble “Tethered, In Darkness,” is live on the Martian website. (It’s free to read there, and also available in Issue 4 and the Year One anthology.)
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