Category: Short Stories
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Another piece of the map
For those of you who may have read the vignettes in Map for a Forgotten Valley that I published last month, another piece of that map has recently been published by Muse, a Cleveland magazine. You can read the whole issue of Muse by visiting their website and downloading the pdf of the issue. Along…
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Fall Recap
The end of autumn. It’s been a busy semester. The student group I advise has created an awesome new online literary magazine called “jenny”. I posted about this a little over a month ago, and now the site is live. We had a launch party with over a hundred people in attendance at Dorian Books…
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I Needs Must Part
Reviewer and critic Richard Larson has posted an extremely insightful review of Richard Bowes’ Nebula nominated novelette, “I Needs Must Part, The Policeman Said,” on his blog. A sample: The idea of the speculative memoir is something of perpetual fascination for me, perhaps because I’ve always treated speculative fiction as a sort of digging below…
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The Antidote to Twilight Sickness
The longed for antidote to Twilight-oriented vampire fiction. Ahh, that was refreshing. Finally. And of course, all thanks due to Holly Black, whose new collection of short fiction is soon to be released. Quick, before you become a vampire, read it!
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Stonefield
Another new story is up in the Interfictions online Annex. This week, “Stonefield” by Mark Rich. Days at the drafting table had provided such neat mental constructions – perfect lines and angles within which he could situate himself, to feel measured and squared… he must have slipped away from sensing the roundness and fullness of…
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Listening to The Language of Moths
Hey, cool, I hadn’t seen that this was available until today, but here is an audiobook version of my Nebula nominated novelette, The Language of Moths. I love the image they gave the story, and even better: if you go through the link above to the audible.com page for the book, you can hear the…
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Are you reading?
Last week I posted an excerpt from the introduction to Interfictions 2 here, and a link to the whole deal. But we also now have two of our Annex stories live online. Have you checked them out yet? The first one is Genevieve Valentine’s “To Set Before the King” and this week’s addition is F.…
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The Ghost Hunter’s Beautiful Daughter
In the October/November issue of Asimov’s, on magazine shelves now, you will find a new story penned by me, entitled “The Ghost Hunter’s Beautiful Daughter”. It’s set in Warren, Ohio, just a twenty minute drive from where I sit in my office on the North Side of Youngstown, an old floundering steel town with a…
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The Bear Dresser’s Secret
My good friend Richard (Rick) Bowes has published a story at Electric Velocipede called “The Bear Dresser’s Secret”. It’s a very different sort of story from the kind Rick is known for. Instead of a gritty, contemporary New York City, or a working class 1950s Boston, here Rick enters a much more playful realm of…
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Interfictions update
Just a heads up. Very soon this fall the second volume of Interfictions, which I co-edited with Delia Sherman, will be appearing. And even sooner than the book is released, we’ll be releasing a new story in the Interfictions Online Annex every week until the book appears. I very much hope that readers like what…