Category: Publications

I haven’t been very good about updating this blog, but I had some new fiction out June 30th!! “Shadow Prisons” is a novelette in three parts, appearing in The Dystopia Triptych (eds. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christie Yant):

• Shadow Prisons: Part 1, “The Shadow Prison Experiment” is in Ignorance is Strength (The Dystopia Triptych Book 1)
• Shadow Prisons: Part 2, “Shadow Prisons of the Mind” is in Burn the Ashes (The Dystopia Triptych Book 2)
• Shadow Prisons: Part 3, “The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma” is in Or Else the Light (The Dystopia Triptych Book 3)

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My first ever commissioned story is a mash-up of The Little Mermaid and Lovecraft’s Shadow Over Innsmouth, told from the perspective of a Japanese fish-frog girl.  You can listen (or read) “The Little Mermaid of Innsmouth” over at The Drabblecast:

http://www.drabblecast.org/2015/09/13/drabblecast-370-the-little-mermaid-of-innsmouth/

To go with the story, I wrote a Lovecraftian parody of “Part of Your World,” from Disney’s version of The Little Mermaid. There’s a version of it at the end of the Drabblecast episode linked above, but I did a somewhat cleaner recording of me singing the song, which you …

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Each month io9 selects one story from the current issue of Lightspeed to feature on their site, and for September they’ve chosen my story “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World“!  I like to read io9, so I’m really excited to have my story featured there :)

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My 50th published story is now out!  It’s at Lightspeed Magazine, and you can read it for free:

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/seven-wonders-of-a-once-and-future-world/

(You can also hear the story as a podcast, narrated by Karyn O’Bryant, using the “Listen” button at the above link.)

I sometimes write stories using what I call “flashmash” where I write several interrelated flash stories and mash them together into a longer piece.  In “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World,” the story is divided into seven parts, each one focusing on a different wonder of the world.  It …

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My story “Seasons Set in Skin” is in issue #177 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

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I have a story out in the May/June issue of F&SF!

A lot of writers have a market that they submitted to from the beginning and have always wanted to crack. This one is mine. My very first rejection came from F&SF, printed on a half sheet of paper and signed by JJA. The rejection arrived in February of 2006.

I wrote “Four Seasons in the Forest of Your Mind” back when CC Finlay was guest editing at F&SF, with limited windows for submissions. I got the idea for the …

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I wrote a series of 5 food-related flash stories for Daily Science Fiction, and they are now all available to read here: http://dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon/tasting-menu

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