Category: short stories

Two stories, one to read and one to hear. Wait, make that three!

The Dying Earth anthology is finally out. My story "To Climb by the Light of the Sputtering Sun" was written specifically for the antho. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was the only full short story I wrote in 2018. (I wrote some flash and micro fiction, n......

The next Lyrical Worlds newsletter

I knew a newsletter going out at the start of the week would just get lost in Cyber Monday sales pitches (and yikes, I knew it would be bad, but it seemed like a lot more than other years this time...). So the December newsletter will be going out...

2019 eligibility post

Lots of posts going up on Twitter about this year's eligibility for various awards, etc. I have two more short stories that I'm expecting to come out before the end of the year, so I'll add those in tentatively and update it with links, new stories if ......

“The Game” in the Lyrical Worlds newsletter

I mentioned in my November Lyrical Worlds newsletter that I would share pictures of the original publication of the reprinted story in it, "The Game."Fictitious Force had a unique shape. I suppose it was simply folded the other direction (hotdog bun st......

Dying Earth cover art

I announced a story sale to this anthology some months ago, and at the time it was expected to come out fairly soon, but there were some delays in getting to publication.Now it's finally getting close to publication, and we recently were sent the cover......

November newsletter almost ready to go out.

Here's what could be in your inbox soon...This newsletter includes a short story that has never appeared online before, a story that appeared (I'm just rediscovering now) alongside some now well known, award-winning short story writers. So if you haven......

Lyrical Worlds newsletter–sign up now!

And there it is, hinted at a few weeks ago and now live: the Lyrical Worlds newsletter.Lyrical Worlds will be the key way to get the latest news about my stories, poems, novels, etc. I'll still share links here on the blog, but the monthly newsletter w......

Short story sale to SFFWorld’s Dying Earth anthology

My story "To Climb by the Light of the Sputtering Sun" will be appearing in SFFWorld's Dying Earth anthology. Dying Earth may make you think of Jack Vance's far future stories. The anthology isn't meant as a pastiche of or tribute to his work, but that......

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......