Story in Triangulation: Parch anthology
So the Parsec Ink anthology Triangulation: Parch is a thing, and I have a story in it called ‘Bitter Water’, which I’m very pleased about, because it involves some of my favourite characters in one of...
View ArticleFlash Fiction at Goldfish Grimm
Hello Monday morning! I have a new flash fiction up over at Goldfish Grimm’s Spicy Fiction Sushi: 7 Noises Heard While House-Sitting Alone, In the Dark, That Would Be Alarming If I Didn’t Know What...
View ArticleFlash Fiction at Lightning Cake Lit
I have a tiny new flash story up at Lightning Cake Lit: The Words of the Maguš to Kūruš, King of Kings, with a lovely illustration by Jen Muir. I wanted to be part of this ‘zine as soon as I saw it –...
View ArticleShort Story in Women Destroy Fantasy!
So Women Destroy Fantasy! is a real thing that definitely exists (I have external confirmation that I am not solipsistically hallucinating this… though I guess that doesn’t mean much if we’re going to...
View Article“Drowning in Sky” at PodCastle
So this is the other good news about ‘Drowning in Sky’: you can’t read it for free, but you can now listen to it over at PodCastle! So many thanks to Abra Staffin-Wiebe for a wonderful reading, and to...
View ArticleAround the Internet (December)
Things seen and read this month (rather short, because it’s one of those busy months). Plus a review of my short stories from 2014, because it’s the end of the year, after all. FICTION The Mercy of...
View Article‘Unravelling’ up at Lackington’s
Only slightly belated: my story Unravelling is now up at Lackington’s, along with the rest of a wonderful issue! The Issue 5 theme is ‘beldams’, with a focus on deconstruction, and my story does...
View ArticleAround the Internet (Feb 2015)
In case you missed it, all the Lackington’s #5 fiction and illustrations are now live on the website, including my short story. (Whole issue kindly reviewed by Charles Payseur! I am still at the stage...
View ArticleFlash Fiction at Two Words For
I’m back! And I have a very short piece of Virgiliana up at Two Words For: Durus Amor, about that time Dido met Aeneas in the underworld. Which is a nice thing to happen on a day dreary even for an...
View ArticleAround the Internet: July 2015
Not much here, because I got back mid-July and slept for a week, or maybe a little more. Let’s just say that if something happened between April and now, I probably missed it. One thing that did happen...
View ArticleShort story in The Sockdolager
The fall issue of The Sockdolager is out today and includes a short study of feline psychopathy by me: Voice and Silence, featuring kittens, mice, old farmhouses, some other weird stuff that happened...
View ArticleShort story in Kaleidotrope
Nice start to a Monday morning: the autumn issue of Kaleidotrope is out, and with it my desert adventure Rites of Passage, featuring amber, dragons and Ann, among other things. Continue reading →
View ArticleAround the Internet (September 2015)
In case you missed it, I had a couple of short stories out this month: (1) Voice and Silence appeared in The Sockdolager this month. It’s a dark little piece featuring kittens being horrible to even...
View ArticleShort Unlikely Story
The newly minted SFWA-qualifying Journal of Unlikely Academia is out, featuring stories by Nicolette Barischoff, Sean Robinson, E. Saxey, Eric Schwitzgebel, Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Pear Nuallak and Rose...
View ArticleShort story in Unsung Stories
I have a piece of drowned-town flash up at Unsung Stories: The Girl who Talked to the Sea. The first storm hit Eccles-on-Sea on Jenny’s fourteenth birthday. She lay curled up counting her cold toes...
View ArticleAround the Internet (October 2015)
To all intents and purposes, I took October off to watch Person of Interest. Whoops. John Reese: sucker for a pretty woman who knows how to frame an inconvenient witness with a brick of cocaine....
View ArticleShort Story in Lackington’s #9
Lackingtons #9 (theme: architecture) is available to buy and I have a new short story in it, alongside the wonderful Arkady Martine, Sara Saab, Y.X. Acs and Natalia Theodoridou, with illustrations by...
View ArticleFlash Fiction in Grendelsong #2
Issue 2 of the new Grendelsong is out and I have a piece of flash fiction in it: The Wardrobe of Metaphysical Maps, involving unsatisfactory relationships and maps of a non-geographical nature. The...
View ArticleLackington’s #9 free to read
In case you missed it, Lackington’s #9 is now free to read, including my story Under Dead Marsh, gorgeously illustrated by Random House. The whole issue is great and Ranylt Richildis is an unsung hero...
View ArticleFlash fiction up at Grendelsong
Most of Grendelsong Issue 2 is now live on the website, including my piece The Wardrobe of Metaphysical Maps, featuring unsatisfactory relationships and maps of a non-geographical nature. This is in...
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