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Consume Post-Apocalypic Literature
In times like these, we should all consume more post-apocalyptic literature. This thought has been circling my mind the last few weeks and in examining its origin, I found it rooted in my lack of immediate concern surrounding the current situation. As street and foot traffic slow significantly, store-shelves are emptied, and panic sweeps…
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Self-isolation Tips for the Jilted Generation
Well, I can safely say my hands have never been cleaner, every time I come in the house, I resemble Lady Macbeth, although I’m not sure she ever did her thumbs. Of course, in the UK, we are used to dealing with things like corona virus with humour. Who…
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Carnival Days and Days in DSF
My fourth appearance in Daily Science Fiction came yesterday, with “Carnival Days and Days.” As the note at the bottom states, I wrote the story while sitting in the airport, waiting to come back home to Colorado about a year ago. It’s a story of air t…
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A Trade in Betrayals–done!
Late Thursday night I wrote the final words of the first draft of A Trade in Betrayals, the third (and likely final) book in the Arcist Chronicles. It feels like the book is…really good. The beats work and build well. The connections within the novel…
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Pirate’s Luck: Chapter 14~The Dead Zone
“Damned-to-the-seven-hells stupid pirate captain.” Arekan cursed Etharin while he crawled in the ventilation shafts of The Rogan, a spaceship thirty-years too old, and sixty-years behind in repairs and upgrades. The tub was not fit to sit in, let alone travel the black depths of space. In his short life, nineteen-year-old Arekan Mor’a’stan never thought…
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Pirate’s Luck: Chapter 14~The Dead Zone
“Damned-to-the-seven-hells stupid pirate captain.” Arekan cursed Etharin while he crawled in the ventilation shafts of The Rogan, a spaceship thirty-years too old, and sixty-years behind
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A Very Special FWO Weird #Christmas
(Beth Turnage Blog) From time to time at Fantasy Writer dot org we have submission challenges were we challenge each other to submit en massé to one publication to see how we fare. At Christmas, we participate in the Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest,where Craig, the owner of the site, chooses a few winners…
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Story sale! “Carnival Days and Days” to Daily Science Fiction
Quick news that I’ve sold this flash fiction story, a sort of trapped-by-forces-beyond-our-control horror/fantasy story. With clowns. It will be my fourth story in DSF.
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“The Game” in the Lyrical Worlds newsletter
I mentioned in my November Lyrical Worlds newsletter that I would share pictures of the original publication of the reprinted story in it, “The Game.”Fictitious Force had a unique shape. I suppose it was simply folded the other direction (hotdog bun st…
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Dying Earth cover art
I announced a story sale to this anthology some months ago, and at the time it was expected to come out fairly soon, but there were some delays in getting to publication.Now it’s finally getting close to publication, and we recently were sent the cover…