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"Walk to Work"
Well, this is unexpected, and not the post I had been meaning to write either, but apparently I wrote a short story this morning. (Around 1500 words as a computer counts.) Like my protagonist I’m a...
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"She meets an angel"
I continue to feel that the web site of a fiction writer should have, well, some fiction on it. After coming back from Viable Paradise, I had occasion to dig through my (relatively small) pile of...
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“The Fun Police”
More fiction. This was the story I wrote during Viable Paradise (my “horror-that-was-Thursday” story). My classmates liked it! Steven Brust liked it! All the markets I submitted it to sent it zinging...
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Fiction: “Hitchhiker”
I mentioned, in my other post, that I’ve signed up for Patreon. This story is my ante-up, me putting my money where my mouth is, whatever cliché you want. This is very much the kind of story I want to...
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Fiction: “September, After”
This is one of the first stories I wrote when I started writing seriously—one of the stories which got me into the Viable Paradise workshop in 2012, in fact. I wrote it before I knew much about story...
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Fiction: “Fieldcraft”
I think of speculative fiction as the genre of literalized metaphor. This is a particularly personal one. (CW: authoritarianism, homophobia) “Fieldcraft” by Kellan Sparver This is how you resist. Do...
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Fiction: “The Sky, Full of Swallows”
I used to live in a little town not entirely unlike the town in this story. The nighthawks around our steeple weren’t robots, but they really did make a noise like a semi truck driving past. This...
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