Category: short stories

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......

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......

"The Cities Rise Up on Legs of Lead" sold to Daily Science Fiction!

 A brief interruption of the character intros to mention that I've sold the flash fiction story "The Cities Rise Up on Legs of Lead" to Daily Science Fiction. It's a fabulist-tinted story of cities coming to life and the city-folk placing their ho......

"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......

"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......

"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......