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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…
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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…
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New story! “The Scapegoat Village” in Kaleidotrope
Starting off the year* with a new short story published in Kaleidotrope, my 5th story in that magazine (two back when it was a print zine and now three in the online version). “The Scapegoat Village” is a lyrical, stylish sort of fantasy—I was playing …
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The Ship of Silk on the Calmest Sea
a fable of the Forgotten SouthThe founding mythology of the Valley of Eghsal is that their ancestors came by sea hundreds of years earlier, sailing through usually impassible waters from a distant land known only as the Forgotten South. Before I’d begu…
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Silk Betrayal main character: Jaritta
Jaritta is one of those characters writers will tell you about, one who takes over a story and demands recognition.She is an outcast, an untouchable, who spends time at Chaitan’s house with Rashul and all the other dreamers who imagine a different worl…