Tag: short stories
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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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#Bookmail from Microcosm
I received my contributor copies of Bicycles & Broomsticks today. I had fun slicing packing tape but did not make an unboxing video because a) I could not be arsed and b) media mail doesn’t make for terribly exciting viewing (but mostly a). I did snap a few pictures, however. It’s a nice looking book…
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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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The Brave New Weird shortlist
The awesome folks at Tenebrous Press are kicking off a new award anthology showcasing new weird horror. (What is “new weird horror”? Matt and Alex call it “a Horror subgenre focused on progress, creatively capturing themes and questions that bleed into fiction straight from the modern reader’s life and future. It acts as a challenge…
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Award eligibility post, 2022 edition
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…
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Kickstart Bicycles & Broomsticks
Bicycles & Broomsticks is the latest entry in Microcosm’s Bikes in Space series of anthologies. As in the previous volumes, these stories share the themes of bikes and feminism; but this time, the secret ingredient is witchcraft. My story is set in 1890s London at the intersection of middle-class bicycling, Egyptology, occult societies, solitary magical…
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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.
A. P. Howell 