"The Forbidden Path to Forgetting"
My poem “The Forbidden Path to Forgetting” has been unlocked for everyone to read! The poem was inspired by a picture of the stone labyrinth on an island off the coast of Sweden, Blå Jungfrun.
Spire City: Occupied, slight change of plans…
I’ve been getting ready to start promoting my serialized novel Spire City: Occupied on both Vella and Curious Fictions, after a soft launch earlier this month.With yesterday’s news about Curious Fictions closing at the end of August, I’m still releasin…
"The Pelagic Colossus" published in Star*Line 44.3
I’ve just returned from a two-week family road trip (and feeling rather tired from it), but a couple of cool things happened publishing-wise while I was away. I’ll start with this news, that Star*Line 44.3 was published. It includes my poem “The P…
"Triptych of the Final String" in the latest issue of New Myths
The latest issue of New Myths came out this past weekend, including my flash story “Triptych of the Final String.” It’s a fable, of sorts–about music and stories and especially learning new stories from each other. Or you could consider it a fairy/fol…
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…
"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 …
“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…
“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…
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…