Recent Online Reading: Short Notes about Short Stories
Taken at the American Museum of Natural History. I just love the delicacy of those feathers. I loved Kris Dikeman’s Silent, Still and Cold in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. It has a high fantasy sensibility...
View ArticleGrandmother’s Road Trip
This story originally appeared in ChiZine, where it took third place in their 2005 contest. It's dedicated to my Grandmother Nellie, who passed away in 2010.This story, which I’ve offered up as free...
View ArticleEditing Fiction Collections
The two collections will have the same cover. I like this picture, but it's not the right one.This month one work item is putting the near-sf and far-sf collections together for e-publication. This...
View ArticleThe Easter Bunny Must Die, Part 18
If you want to start at the beginning, you can find the novel here. (this is the end of chapter Eight, a piece that I went back and added in. Chapter Nine will appear in its entirety tomorrow.) The...
View ArticleThe Easter Bunny Must Die, Part 20
If you’re starting from the beginning, I suggest going here. This is Chapter Ten. Next week, I’ll be releasing chapters on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, in order to try that schedule and see how well...
View ArticleThe Million Writers Award – 2012
The Million Writers Award, which is a cool award for online fiction created by Jason Sanford, is open for nominations until April 9. If you’ve got a favorite story that appeared online this year —...
View ArticleTeaser: The Threadbare Magician
Still revamping this, since it insists on struggling from novelette length towards novella. Here you go. Friendly Village loops and winds, tiny roads scattered among the trailers. Every patch of...
View ArticleTeaser From Another Unfinished Steampunk Story
If you're interested in my steampunk stories, you might start with "Clockwork Fairies," which originally appeared on Tor.comI’ve been writing a lot in a steampunk world lately; this is the fourth story...
View ArticleComing Up Tomorrow in Patreon: Prairie Dog Town
"Like the gift shop, the zoo was deserted. Cages of galvanized wire, weathered into dullness. Had it been shiny when the place was first built? She had a hard time envisioning any part of this ever...
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