In addition to *trying* to have a real life, I usually have a good
handful of stories that I'm either brainstorming about, writing,
editing, or agonizingly waiting as an editor looks them over. If you're
interested in the sort of stories I write, or want to know the status
of things, this would be the place.
Published Works:
-- "Green
Magic" -- This short scene was one of three winners in The Harrow's Animanga
contest, and appeared in Vol.
9,
no. 10. (You may need to be logged in to read.)
-- "The
Blue Flower" -- A young freedom fighter in the future is told
that a flower can bring hope to a repressed world. But was he told the
truth? This work received Honorable
Mention in The Sword Review's
2006 Fiction Contest.
-- Two drabbles (100 word stories) of mine aappear in The
Drabbler #8, published by Sam's Dot Publishing. The
theme of the issue is "Alien Pet Care".
-- "Outwitted"
-- When her fiance's transformation spell ggooes horribly
wrong, is a young sorceress's magic enough to save him? Now available
at Quantum Kiss.
-- "Command Performance" -- A western SF sttory, this piece appears in Science
Fiction Trails, an anthology edited by David B. Riley and published
by Pirate
Dog
Press.
Accepted Works:
-- "Irula's Apprentice" -- Set in a fantasyy world of my own design
where the sole sentient species is a race of anthropomorphic lions,
"Irula's Apprentice" tells the story of a young shamaness who has to
chose between love and duty. Accepted by Renard's Menagerie.
-- "Kogane-dono" -- A modern horror story, where the horror may or may
not be merely psychological. It is about rose gardens and Japanese
beetles. Really! Accepted for an anthology being edited by Mark Deniz and Sharyn
Lilley.
Works under Consideration:
-- "Inflation" -- A *very* short flash piecce (200 words or so) about
rising prices and the Underworld.
-- "Butterfly Dreams" -- Virtual Reality annd revenge.
-- "Digitus Dei" -- A boy whose single mothher sends all their money to
a televangelist works a rather biblical revenge on her.
-- "ReNew" -- A new medical treatment to coombat aging has unexpected
results. Under the title "Rebirth" this story was awarded an Honorable
Mention in Alien Skin
Magazine's "Science
Fiction Good Writing" contest.
-- "Big Bad" -- Has a black Thing really taaken over the body of Jean's
grandmother? Or is it all in her head?
-- "Ghost in My Mind" -- A harpist tries too contact the soul of her
husband on All Souls' Night.
-- "Brian's Quest" -- A mother starts to woorry that her teenaged son is
spending too much time playing Role-Playing games.
Works I'm Editing before sending out again:
-- "Stannard Rock" -- Set in Lake Superior,, what Thing makes its home
in the reef under Stannard Rock Lighthouse?
-- "The Necromancers of Parnasus IV" -- A mmobster in the future visits
rather unusual aliens with the ability to reconstruct the dead in order
to talk to the wife he murdered.
-- "Crapgod" -- A sewer worker falls througghh a broken sewer pipe to
find himself paralyzed in a chapel made from human bones.
-- "Galateus Unbound" -- My efforts to re-ttell the myth of Pygmalion,
but with the sexes switched.
-- "Whalerider" -- A shipwrecked Portuguesee sailor is saved by a group
of people who use whales and dolphins as living vessels.
-- "The Canni-Ball" -- "People... People whhoo eat people... Are the
luckiest people in the world..."
-- "Silver Lining" -- Can Megan Petrov survviive a new treatment for her
lycanthropy while finding a way to pay a mob boss back fifty thousand
dollars? This had been submitted for "The Clinic"
storyline of Quill-Pen.net Press's
Magazine
of Unbelievable Stories. I'm going to try to retool it for
submission elsewhere.
Things in various states of completion that I hope to submit
someday:
-- Lion of the Veldt -- A working tiittle for my
novel-in-progress set in the same universe as "Irula's Apprentice". In
a world where males are forbidden to use magic, what place is there for
a young lionman who discovers he has unusual abilities? And what
relationship does his abilities have to the ancient evil rising once
again?
-- "Et in Arcadia Ego" -- A young man encouunters Death playing
pachinko
in an arcade.
-- "Dole in Astolat" -- My attempt to re-teell the story of Elaine and
Lancelot in a SF (space opera) setting.
-- "Doug's Last Halloween" -- When a town cceelebrates Halloween the
weekend before instead of on October 31st, it's up to the children of
the town to save their community when the baddies come prowling for
real.
-- "Jelaan's Choice" -- A young lionman choooses to take on a radical
disguise in order to find his twin who has been taken by slavers.
