Minotaur
This story originally appeared in in Alien Abduction: Short Fiction on the Themes of Alien and Abduction, September 28, 2015, and was reprinted in Love Stories. The spires of Miros were tall and slender, much like Ted’s captors. They walked in the streets below...
Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading
The reading went great! I got to read with my sister, and… generally if the Broads are in the house, GO SEE THEM. I read from Immortal Gifts, and people chuckled in all the right places, so there you are.Psst! Are you on Apple or Kobo?
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Grandfather Paradox
This story was originally published in Electric Velocipede, issue #17/18, Spring 2009, reprinted in Escape Pod, March 10, 2011, and reprinted in Love Stories. JUNE 23, 1994 Ann stuffed her blood-spattered clothes into the next door apartment complex’s dumpster. He...
La Divinia Commedia
This story originally appeared in ChiZine, October 2011, and was reprinted in Broad Spectrum: The 2012 Broad Universe Fiction Sampler (October 30, 2012, and in Love Stories. INFERNO Last time this happened, I was Orpheus. Ethan was lost, pale, gone in a haze of...
So Hey, Katherine, How Do You Lay Out Your Books?
For my eBooks (I have one for sale and a slew of mailing list extras), I use Draft2Digital’s converter… but might end up using Sigil. I used to do webdev, a million years ago, and am comfortable in HTML and CSS. But I have yet to play with that. I mean, D2D produces...
Thoughts on Writing Werewolves
Oh hey! It’s a magical creature post where I’m not going to ask you to think about religion! I mean, you can if you want to, as the medieval European werewolf typically put on a wolf-skin belt, or applied a special salve to their body, or went through a Satanic rite,...
Underworld
This story was originally published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination and reprinted in Love Stories. (Also this graphic is adapted from the original publisher’s art.) Tucking his computer science textbook and his Book of Shadows into his backpack,...
Thoughts on Writing Ghosts
I’m sorry, but you probably know the drill by now. Like the vampire post and the witch post, I’m going to ask you to consider religion… or at the very least, the afterlife. A ghost—at least, the kind I’m talking about—is the spirit of someone who’s died. This implies...Subscribe
