Author: Daniel Ausema
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2020 publications
Here is my year in review for 2020 stories and poems. I don’t usually make a big effort trying to garner interest in nominating things for awards, though I probably should. But mostly I want everyone to have a chance to give these stories and poems a r…
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"The Bridge Fugue: Variations on Emptiness" published in Daily Science Fiction
Photo by Valentin Balan on UnsplashMy story “The Bridge Fugue: Variations on Emptiness” is out in today’s DSF.I wrote this last January (before anyone around here started talking about lockdowns….). Some of the comments I got from othe…
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"Six Views of the Wall" in Dear Leader Tales anthology
I’m thrilled to have a story in this new anthology, Dear Leader Tales. Here’s the write-up for the book:2020 has been a very trying year for humanity. In addition to a barely-checked viral contagion causing widespread economic distress, there are …
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“The Huntress and the Conveyor Worlds” is out now in Mythaxis
“The Huntress and the Conveyor Worlds” is a story I wrote quite a while ago. It never found its right market, but I kept taking it back out of the trunk to revise, tinker with it, revisit its improbable world of lived-in technology that no one understa…
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“Assailing the Garden of Pleasure” in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
My story “Assailing the Garden of Pleasure” came out this weekend in the latest issue of HFQ.This story has taken a rather circuitous path to publication. Some years ago, I participated in a challenge to write a story based on this image from the artis…
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The Market of Magical Goods – Serial
Photo by Annie Spratt via UnsplashThe shopkeeper offers you a tincture. One drop in your eye will let you recognize the stories that matter. Will you take it? Do you trust the keeper of this stall of strange wonders?What is the market of magical goods?…
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Pinned Post
Stay up to date with all the latest news, short stories, poems, and updates on novels as they are published:Lyrical Worlds NewsletterSign up for news, free books, and more!SubscribeThank you!You have successfully joined our subscriber list.Be sure to follow me at Curious Fictions as well for reprints and new work every month.And for sporadic content, book…
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Some more news
The past few months have had a bunch of new things coming out, so here’s my attempt to catch up on them.First, shortly after my last update, I started posting reprints and excerpts at Curious Fictions. I plan to continue posting at least one short stor…
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Recent acceptances
More news coming soon!But for now, three new acceptances to report here. First, I sold a poem, “Body double for the oldest organism,” to Star*Line, the official magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. It will be my third poem in…
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March Lyrical Worlds
My March newsletter will be going out soon. This one includes a reprint of a Weird Western that was first published almost a decade ago. If you haven’t signed up yet, make sure you do so soon, so you don’t miss this story!Lyrical Worlds NewsletterSign up for news, free books, and more!Subscribe Thank you!You have…