2023 Publications post

Hey, look! For once I can do this in mid-December.

In 2023, I wrote nothing, but I did publish five stories and one poem, almost all available to read for free online.

The stories:

Carnival Ever After

Building a life – and finding a family – after the fairy tale. It’s on the Nebula Recommended Reading List, along with a couple of other best of lists put together by readers.

The Seventh Battle of the Queen of the Ruby Mists, in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2023.

A story of the final battle of that Queen – told in footnotes.

Identifying the Tripoda: A Preliminary Report, in Tree and Stone, March 2023

A second story told in footnotes – but one that seemed to fly under everyone’s radar, including mine! I barely mentioned it at the time, but….better late than never, I guess?

Enchanted mirrors are making a comeback. That’s not necessarily a good thing, in Fantasy, March 2023.

People greatly underestimate the issues facing enchanted mirrors today. It’s also on the Nebula Recommended Reading List.

Misericorde, in Kaleidotrope, Summer 2023

A cold hillside. Pain. And awakening.

The poem:

“A Chat with Grandma,” in Worlds of Possibility, August 2023

This was a fun little thing to write.

Enjoy – and if you can, perhaps consider buying a few issues of these zines, or better yet, subscribe!

New publications: Carnival Ever After, Notes on the Seventh Battle of the Queen of the Ruby Mists, and Green Leaves Against the Wind

So 2023 has started out with a bit of a publishing bang, with not one but two new stories, plus a poem:

Carnival Ever After, in Apex, is a fairy tale about what happened after the end of Charles Perrault’s “Diamonds and Toads,” both to the beautiful sister who married a prince, and the ugly sister who did not.

Notes on the Seventh Battle of the Queen of the Ruby Mists, in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, collects the footnotes of a detailed research study on this fabulous battle. Still kinda sad that the footnote citing an article from First in Fae had to be eliminated, but sacrifices must be made in the name of scholarship.

This story is closely related to my earlier story in Reckoning, Footnotes on Phosphates, Nitrates and the Lake A Incident: a Review.

And speaking of Reckoning, I also have a new poem there this month: Green Leaves Against the Wind.

Enjoy!