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My mainstream short story, "The Missing Elephant" is up today in CommuterLit. (Free to read)
It was originally published in They Have to Take You In anthology, Ursula Pflug, ed., Hidden Brook Press, 2014 and reprinted in Costal Shelf Issue #1, Nov 20, 2020.
This is an "Alan" story from my series about life in the 1960s, this one about things one did not talk about and the overwhelming power of denial.
Hosts Joe Mahoney and Mark A. Rayner invited me to come on Re-Creative, the podcast about art and writing that inspire writers. I took a long time to think about which writer or artist had had a big impact on me, but they had already talked about Den Valdron's The Mermaid's Tale and Douglas Adams, and I was debating amongst so many other possibilities (Terry Pratchett, Samual Marchbanks, Dave Duncan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Shane Koyzan, Lois McMaster Bujold, etc etc) that I just couldn't focus: until I read R. F. Kuang's Yellowface (See my text review). I could not shut up about how brilliant and relevant Yellowface is, a must-read for every aspiring writer, so that became the natural topic to propose to Mohoney and Rayner.
We also talk about a bit about my writing, editing, and breakfast.
My short story "Weathering" was reprinted in Daikaiju #19.
https://www.daikaijuzine.org/
"Weathering" originally appeared in Lamplit Underground #4, Sept 2020, pp.12-19.
Reviews of Kyber by Chadwick Ginther, and Shared World by Ball, Chomichuk, Gillespie and Ginter, Ottawa Review of Books, Sept 15, 2024. Preprint in The N3F Review of Books, July 2024.
My short story, "Inuksuk",has been reprinted in Best of Metastellar Year 3, September 2024, pp. 60-77.
The story originally appeared in Polar Borealis #15 (June 2020) pp 43-55 and reprinted in Metastellar, May 31, 2023.
Two of my drabbles, "Pillow Talk" and "Pepermints", have been reprinted in Siren's Call #66 Copies of the magazine are free to download at http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_Summer2024.pdf
My flash fiction "Fami's Watch" was podcast on AntipodeanSF July 14 and is available at: https://antisf.libsyn.com/ My story comes at about minute 6 (intro at minute 5) into the podcast. The story was originally published in Polar Borealis #20 (2021), and reprinted in AntipodeanSF #301 (2023).
