by Katherine Villyard | Aug 17, 2024 | free fiction, short fiction
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...
by Katherine Villyard | Jul 16, 2024 | free fiction, short fiction
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...
by Katherine Villyard | Jun 15, 2024 | free fiction, short fiction
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...
by Katherine Villyard | May 15, 2024 | free fiction, short fiction
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,...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 18, 2024 | free fiction, short fiction
This story was originally published in Escape Pod on July 5, 2013, and reprinted in Love Stories. There’s also a really good audio version by Kyle Akers! In the beginning, there was darkness. And in the darkness were the words. And the words were, AI...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 15, 2024 | free fiction, short fiction
This story was originally posted in Ficticious Force in 2009 and reprinted in Escape Pod on May 13, 2011, and in Love Stories in 2022. Yvonne looked up from her monitor, the beads in her cornrows clattering as Roger walked into her office. Roger sat in the dark wooden...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 14, 2024 | free fiction, short fiction
This story was originally published in Electric Velocipede on December 30, 2013, and reprinted in Love Stories. She knew the signs of drowning; she’d seen it many times. Mouth below the waterline, arms pressing the body up out of the water for a breath. He didn’t cry...
by Katherine Villyard | Jun 27, 2023 | short fiction
My audiobook is LIVE and available RIGHT NOW! You can get your copy here. Would you like a review copy? You can apply for one here. I have codes for both the US and the UK. I got the incredibly talented Kyle Akers from the No Sleep Podcast to read it, and he’s...
by Katherine Villyard | May 24, 2023 | cons, short fiction
Meet the Broads of Broad Universe! The authors of Broad Universe will drop you into their fictional universes with short readings from multiple authors and works. Within the session you will hear a variety of writers in a variety of speculative fiction subgenres, like...
by Katherine Villyard | May 6, 2023 | short fiction
Now that I’ve received the 15 minute checkpoint it feels real enough to talk about, so… I’m having an audiobook of Love Stories produced. I’m excited! as the 15 minute checkpoint was FIRE, man. FIRE! Fans of Escape Pod will be pleased. Also...