Category: short stories
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Sunday recs: Fairytales
Three fairytale-tinged recs for you tonight. First, two tales from Daily Science Fiction, new takes on traditional tales, from points of view forgotten in the originals: Beans and Lies by Mari Ness: an incisive super-short piece with a proper punch at the end. Toadwords by Nathaniel Lee: a tale that really made me think about…
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“The Ruin” in Luna Station Quarterly
First actual publication of 2015 – my short story “The Ruin” is now up in Issue 21 of Luna Station Quarterly. Read it here! I’m especially pleased that this story has been published, because it’s set in a forest world I’ve been developing for a while. As I think I mentioned here before, my poem…
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Sunday recs: owls, fragments, pockets
Just wrote a ~3,000-word story in two hours, yay! With some editing, I think this will be fine for submitting to Lightspeed’s Queers Destroy Science Fiction! special issue. It’s been so long since I came up with a story idea and actually wrote it in this short a time – I got the idea last…
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Finishing projects feels good
Around the end of December 2013, I came upon a post with pretty pictures of the 33 most beautiful abandoned places in the world. One of those clickbaity list posts, but this one struck a chord. I love the desolate beauty of abandoned things. And so I decided to write something about all 33, inspired…
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Award eligibility post (works published in 2014)
Firstly: this feels so weird. Award eligibility is for real writers, right? Not me? No, shut up, evil!brain. (This post by Amal El-Mohtar is very relevant…) Anyway, I have done my research and to the best of my knowledge, it appears that the following works are eligible for awards (for 2014): Poetry (eligible for the…
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An Alphabet of Embers ToC!
Rose Lemberg, the editor of the forthcoming anthology An Alphabet of Embers (which includes my story “The City Beneath the Sea”), has posted the full ToC on her website: check it out! I can’t overstate how excited I am by this project! I’m really looking forward to reading the other contributions when the anthology comes…
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Sunday recs: Three stories and a novel
Hi, this is me procrastinating! Soon, soon I will go and finish the zero draft of a story that’s been unreasonably hard to write considering that I know how it ends and all… Anyway, here’s three stories I read sometime late last year and enjoyed: Collector’s Item by Daniel McPherson (in Daily Science Fiction): a…
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2014 in review
On 1 January I made a post about my writing in 2013 and my hopes for 2014. I like looking back on the past year at its end, so here we go again. My writing goals for 2014 were (slightly abridged): Get a story published! Get more poems published. Work on a poetry collection. Increase…
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“Munankuorikehto” out in Spin magazine
My Finnish-language flash fiction piece about fairies, “Munankuorikehto” (‘Egg-Shell Cradle’), is out in the Turku Science Fiction Society’s magazine Spin! Huzzah! Here is the link to the issue itself (in Finnish). It came out a couple of weeks ago already, but I was unaware of the fact because I haven’t received my contributor’s copy yet.…
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Story sale to Luna Station Quarterly
My short story “The Ruin” will be appearing in the next issue of Luna Station Quarterly, on 1 March 2015. LSQ is dedicated to showcasing women writing speculative fiction, and I’m looking forward to being part of this lovely project. Huzzah! Pleasingly, this story is set in the same world as my Nanowrimo novel for…