"The Mirror Merchant’s Tales" sold to Daily Science Fiction!
If you get my newsletter, you may have seen the news that I've sold another short story to Daily Science Fiction. This will be my sixth story in DSF, and it's a story I'm excited to have out there, a fantasy story with a touch of Lord Dunsany (in...
"Triptych of the Final String" sold to New Myths
Excited to announce the sale of this flash fiction to New Myths. There's even a loose connection to The Silk Betrayal with this story. I'll say more about that when the story comes out, likely in June.It will be my third time having something in ......
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......
"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......
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......
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......
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....
Cities of Wonder, Rails of Irreality ebook available for pre-order
So you've been curious about this chapbook but wanting the ebook version instead? Well, National Poetry Month is an excellent time to give it a try. It combines poems, some previously published and some new, with poetic flash-story prose into something......
Cities of Wonder copies have arrived
Doing print copies through KDP's print-on-demand service (as with Createspace previously) always gives you this moment of wondering how the final product will look. You can examine the pdfs all you want, launch the viewer, order proof copies. But until......
Cities of Wonder, Trains of Irreality released!
This has been sneaking along beneath the surface for awhile now, but at last I can make it official.This collection/chapbook of flash stories and poems is now available!Going back over ten years, I began playing around with the idea of a narrative appr......