Category: Flash Fiction

"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......

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......

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......