It’s been a while since I last updated, but I have a few new publications to announce!
First, a bittersweet story about long-term care, memory loss, and mother-daughter relationships.
In “Against the Dying of the Light,” from Flash Fiction Online’s May 2020 issue, a woman must balance caring for her mother with reporting on a cutting-edge surgery that’s supposed to be nearly miraculous. But as the saying goes, if something seems too good to be true…
Read “Against the Dying of the Light” at Flash Fiction Online here! You can also support the publisher by purchasing a copy of the issue on Amazon (it’s only $1!).
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Next up is “At the Edge of a Human Path,” a story that features:
- Ancient kami!
- Shapeshifting foxes!
- Politics, power, and greed!
- A strange and hopefully compelling mashup of 6th-century Japan with the comedic middle English ballad The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle!
All this and more can be found in my 5000 word fantasy story “At the Edge of a Human Path,” out now in 87 Bedford’s Historic Fantasy Anthology, which published in June, 2020. You can purchase a copy of the anthology direct from the publisher at https://87bedford.com/2020/05/25/historic-fantasy-anthology/ for the low price of $5.
If you want to read just my story you can read it here.
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And last, but not least, a cutemeet set against the end of the world!
Wait, maybe an exclamation mark sets the tone wrong for that one…
In any case, my story “Scenes from the End of a World” is up in the June 2020 issue of All Worlds Wayfarer. Features non-binary characters, a budding romance, and… well… what it says on the cover.
You can read “Scenes from the End of a World” online at All Worlds Wayfarer and support the publisher by buying a copy of the issue in which it apperas at Amazon for $2.99.
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What else have I been up to?
Right now I’m doing the Clarion West Writeathon, which is always fun.
In May/June, I wrote the first draft of a 30,000 word novella looking at the Akō Incident, more commonly known in English as the tale of the 47 rōnin. My take on the story focuses on the trials of Sengoku Hisanao, one of the shogun’s chief castle inspectors and the person in charge of the official investigation and response to the rōnin attack on Kira Yoshinaka. It also features (of course) telepathic extraterrestrials who exist as beings of pure thought.
I’m planning to shop it around when I’ve made a few more revisions, so hopefully will have news to share about it in the future!
I did finally finish up a revised draft of the novel I’ve been working on as well, and am going to dive back into that soon now that I have some beta reader feedback to look at about what needs fixing.