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Stories, Podcasts, Interviews, and Articles, 2023:
Here’s hoping for a
Happy New Year
for us all.
New Story
December 31, 2023, in Fantasy
The first time Able saw Ana, he thought she was an angel. Maybe because the light outlined her in gold and lit a halo around her hair.
Or possibly because her smile was so radiant she seemed more than human.
But probably, it was due to the large, white wings strapped to her back.
New Story
in Stories for Young People of All Ages
“The Flip Side”
by Hall Jameson
I had arrived in a box with an orange kitten the Keepers called Carrot and a speckled kitten they called Dot. Me, they called mostly, OhNo! but sometimes, StopThat! or GetDown!
Then I fell off the beam in the Basking Room, and landed in a very different place…
A New Story
October 25, 2023, in Fantasy
by Douglas Schwarz
The man who appeared at my elbow after the accident was obviously a demon. I had other things on my mind though, like the paramedics desperately trying to keep my body alive.
Then he told me he was there to collect me according to the terms of my contract.
What contract?
August 31, 2023, in Science Fiction
‘No flash,’ said the man, shaking his head. ‘I want something… custom.’
May 28, 2023, in Science Fiction
Annie sat on her garden swing letting her eyes slowly adjust to the darkness, just like Daddy had shown her.
The brighter stars appeared first, then the smaller, fainter stars, until the black sky was dotted with the tiny flecks of light.
It was a perfect night for star gazing. No moon, no cloud.
Inside, something was happening.
Men from Daddy’s work were talking with Mummy. And Uncle Trevor had come round. There was something wrong
Something they all wanted to talk about without her listening
So, Annie had been bundled out to look at the stars.
A New Story
In Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales
April 30, 2023, in Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales
“Soul Arbitration”
by Rustin Lovewell
Hel arrives first.
The ground at the northern beachhead opens like an inverted gate, rocks and black pebbles sloughing away in a fall that drowns out the crashing surf.
My skin prickles.
I clutch the armrests of my stone seat as the goddess emerges from the depths,
moonlight reflecting off her bone crown.
Mist clings to her garments like phantom hands.
New Story
March 29, 2023, in Science Fiction
Just playing checkers in the park.
Talking about the latest toy they would produce.
All by themselves.
New Story
Valentine’s Day 2023
February 14, 2023 in Science Fiction
“Tomorrow Is a Difficult Proposition”
by Kris Bowser
“We’ll talk later.” I tell you, with such casual smoothness you have no idea how poor my grasp of “later” actually is.
Then I expand out to formless thought-feeling-presence. I am around your ship, through your ship. I have no edges, no body, only a calmness like shade and meditation and cool water.
I unfold within a nebula, a fair harbor for thought, while patterns form in the blooming and exploding of stars as millennia sweep by.
I return to where you were, but find I have lost you.
You could be anywhere. I’m hazy on the time as well, and so I search backwards and forwards.
I rush through all the reaches of the cosmos where your people have explored and built civilizations, and I rummage through planets and systems like opening and shutting drawers in rapid search.
And all I have to aid my search is a set of dingy keys.
New Story
January 31, 2023, in Science Fiction
“BCALLI, SINGER OF THE STRING”
I directed the 800,000 planetesimals in my sector of the inner edge of the Öpik-Oort Cloud encasing the Solar system.
We were deployed to keep the germs’ madness quarantined until they blew up their world.
Always on our toes and never sleeping, millennia passed quietly, as it does on watch,
just an occasional comet shooting off toward the inner system.
Then came a song.
On the String.