New story today in Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Three Drops in the River! A lion, a bridge, a tinsmith’s daughter, a magician…and some missing naiads….
(There’s also a podcast version by the always-delightful Tina Connolly, if you prefer to get your stories that way.)
New story out today! Transits of Other Lands appears in Kaleidotrope. I wrote this story because writing “I MISS THE MONTREAL METRO” a hundred times during lockdown seemed like a less interesting way to express this. But also: I still do miss the Montreal Metro, gosh I miss the Montreal Metro, and also I miss the T-Bana and the T and BART. Other people’s public transit is a magical thing.
In this story, literally so.
Again, please feel free to recommend things in the comments, I definitely have not read everything that’s out there!
Testimony of an Encounter with the Death-Mage, Taken at the Canal Village of Po-Endenn, Stephen Case (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
This Mentor Lives, J. R. Dawson and John Wiswell (Haven Spec)
Father Ash, Rachel Hartman (Sunday Morning Transport)
Reciprocity, Valerie Kemp (Haven Spec)
Caring for Your Damage Sponge, Rich Larson (Small Wonders)
Letters from Mt. Monroe Elementary, Third Grade, Sarah Pauling (Diabolical Plots)
The Only Writing Advice You’ll Ever Need to Survive Eldritch Horrors, Aimee Picchi (Lightspeed)
At the Stopping Place, Grace Seybold (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Moon Pies, Taylor Thackaberry (Uncharted)
Skinless, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Haven Spec)
I’ll Miss Myself, John Wiswell (Reactor)
Sometimes the story you want is not the story you get. The Wrong Time Travel Story is out today in Uncanny! Go, read, Enjoy!
New story out today in Nature Futures! Denebian Glamour’s What’s Hot and What’s Not for the Next Millennium! Get all your fashion tips here and find out what heavenly bodies you’ll be able to vaporize with impunity and how many airlocks your space station should have! Are YOU living in the fashionable part of the galaxy? The answer may surprise you!
New story out today! Conjured from the Rubble is in Haven Spec magazine. Natural disaster, class mobility, and…wizards! I hope you enjoy it.
I’m walking a weird path with my natural disaster stories these days. The nearest inspiration for them, the thing my heart is still processing, is the tornado that hit my college in 1998. It can take some time for art to come to the surface, and it’s only in the last few years that I’ve really been dealing with that one. On the other hand natural disasters in general are on the rise, and the more time goes on, the more I’m looking at what’s coming rather than what’s come before, on this topic. So the balance gets interesting. I hope you like this one.
Here’s some of the new stuff I’ve liked this spring. I’m terribly behind on my new short fiction reading, because I keep being handed other short things to read, but I’ll get there, one way or another. And in the meantime here are some gems.
Carbon Cycle, Lindsay King-Miller (The Deadlands)
A Series of Accounts Surrounding the Risen Lady of the Orun-Alai and Other Alleged Miracles in the Final Days of the Riverlands War, Aimee Ogden (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Blackjack, Veronica Schanoes (Reactor)
The Weight of Your Own Ashes, Carlie St. George (Clarkesworld)
An Intergalactic Smuggler’s Guide to Homecoming, Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld)
Five Answers to Questions You Probably Have, John Wiswell (Uncanny)
The Great Beyond Commands, John Wiswell (Small Wonders)
Reprint out today! “Exiled to Gravity” appears in Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 8. It originally appeared in Sunday Morning Transport, and now it has gone to make new friends with other hard science fiction from last year. Enjoy!
New story out today in Lightspeed! And the Dreams That You Dare to Dream is available for your reading or listening pleasure. I wanted to write a story about finding your place and finding your magic…only some of which is new. Yes, the title is an Oz reference, but actually it’s the Oz books that inspire me, not the movie. This one goes out to all of you who remember Ozma’s whole story and are newly delighted by it as adults. I wrote it for my friend J. R. Dawson and for all of the members of the Silent Queer Migration. Welcome home to Minnesota. We’re delighted to have your magic. I made you a story to say welcome.
I have a new story out today in Beneath Ceaseless Skies! A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places is available for your reading pleasure. (It’s also available for your listening pleasure if that’s how you roll.) This one draws on some disability experiences in its attempts to travel down into the depths and come back up again. Hope you enjoy.