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It's only just occurred to me, writing this, how apt my story "The World in a Bottle" is for the times. I could easily be accused of writing a pandemic story - it's about someone trapped in a simulation, the bottle of the title - but it wasn't deliberate. The story was written in January 2020, just before the pandemic struck.
Anyway, go read it at Nature Futures. I somehow managed to completely miss that my story "The Silver Spoon" was up at The Colored Lens, even though the ebook's been up on Amazon for a while. It's a Christmas story for those are maybe a little sick of family tensions, so the timing worked out anyway.
My only other Christmas story is "And a Cup of Good Cheer", which is also a tad on the dark side. It's still up at 10 Flash Quarterly, although the market's been dead for a while now. It's a shame, it was a market I really liked, because I love writing to prompts. There don't seem to be many prompt-based market's around these days. I'm currently pondering another Christmas story. This one's not light and fluffy either. I'm sensing a theme... Not much to update, at the moment. This weekend I missed the Liberty Hall flash challenge because it's my week to work late and I knew I wouldnt want to do the crits. Late week I give myself permission to get nothing done. I've got some ideas on what to do with the previous week's story, too, although it involves a complete rewrite and includes switching it from present day to a futuristic setting. This will obviously impact it in unexpected ways so I'm looking forward to the challenge.
It's nice that LH is still ticking along, although I have to say I miss the days when it was bustling with activity. To be fair, a lot of the drop-off seems to be people moving on to the next stage of their careers - Aliette de Bodard and TL Morganfield are both writers I originally met there, and I know Mary Robinette Kowal was a member before my time. But there doesn't seem to have been an influx of new members to make up the losses, so it's very quiet. While I don't need another lively forum to keep track of, the flash challenge definitely benefits from a larger number of participants. A couple of weeks ago I started a story over at another site, for a contest, but didn't get it finished. I've got a title and a very basic idea, but didn't have enough to get a complete story done by the deadline. So that's on the pile with all the other stories I don't quite know what to do with. Part of the plan is, over the next few weeks, to get all of these half-stories together and printed out so I can start working on them again - some of them are years old now and need either finishing or trunking. None of that will get done this this week. Late week wrecks my brain, so I'll probably spend my evenings playing Minecraft instead. Meduspod episode eight has just gone up, which contains "This is the Way the World Begins" with awesome narration by Rock Manor. Podcasts are a great was to submit reprints, although I tend not to send unpublished work as you can lose first print rights that way. It depends on the podcast. "This is the Way the World Begins" originally appeared over at Daily Science Fiction.
I managed to forget that my flash story "Paying for Death" was published by Sorcerous Signals. Things have been a little bust lately, what with broken bones (not mine!) and overtime at the day job. Here's a link!
"You're sure you want to do this?" That was it. No greeting, no discussion. Mirri nodded and swallowed around the lump in her throat, proffering a lock of golden hair tied with a thread. |
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