Stephen Oliver, Purveyor of the Paranormal
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"What Passes for Eyes in Dreams and Death" in Fantasy
I’ve been traveling (and even when not traveling, pulled in a thousand directions at once), so I have several different new publications/announcements/news-type things to post about that each deserve their own post. So first, in June my story “Wh…
Rotary Club
Yesterday, I gave a talk to a Rotary Club meeting in New Hampshire from here in England via Zoom, organised by Annalisa, my writing coach. I told them about being a writer and author, winning prizes, and read them one of the stories from Paranormal City: Bogeyman Blues. They all seemed to enjoy it. I […]
"Excavating Lost Languages" in Frozen Wavelets #8! (and more…)
My flash story “Excavating Lost Languages” came out in that latest issue of Frozen Wavelets! It’s short and full of linguistic whimsy and imaginary writing systems, lost to time.Also, as a follow-up to my most recent post, my story from the Enigmatic S…
2022 publications — Award Eligibility Post
- award eligibility
- fantasy
- novel
- poem
- publication
- science fiction
- serial fiction
- short stories
- Silk Betrayal
- Spire City
These past months have been chaos. No apologies or explanations, but there have been a number of things published since my last post. They will be included in this award eligibility post:In 2022 I had 8 short stories published, 3 poems, and 2 novels (t…
The Quartermaster Trial live!
“The Quartermaster Trial” is live now on Mythaxis. It’s a companion piece to the story “The Huntress and the Conveyor Worlds,” which was published in Mythaxis two years ago. The characters are different (well, except for one who may not exactly c…
Goddess of the Braided Light Drive in New Myths!
Photo by Akshar Dave🌻 on UnsplashIn my last post I mentioned this story, which sold to New Myths. And it was published soon after that, so in the interest of catching up on some of the things have been slipping through my fingers in the chaos of recent…
February whirlwind of news…
- acceptance
- fantasy
- Flash Fiction
- poetry
- publication
- science fiction
- short stories
- Spire City
- steampunk
February turned out to be a crazy month, with most of the craziness coming in the span of a week. I’m still rather dizzied from it, so this will simply be a rundown of what’s happened:Spire City: Occupied was released as an ebook. It will rem…
"A Chance to Breathe" published in Zooscape!
My story “A Chance to Breathe” is in the latest issue of Zooscape. This is a story I wrote years ago and could never find the right market for–until now. There are three main inspirations for the story: 1) My grandma’s family immigrated to …
Award Eligibility 2021
Are you reading for award nominations? Just curious for an update on publications? This is what I’ve had published in 2021:Novel: Spire City: Occupied (serialized on Kindle Vella/Curious Fictions/Ko-fi)Short Stories: “Triptych of the Final St…