Category: Fiction
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New Story: “In the Blood,” at Beneath Ceaseless Skies
My newest short story, “In the Blood,” is out at Beneath Ceaseless Skies! “In the Blood” is the sixth (or seventh, depending on how you count) in a loosely connected series of short stories I’ve been working on since 2006 or so, when the first one — “Wizard’s Six” — came out in F&SF. (Edit:…
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Self-Portrait, with Bones
If you are not reading The Sunday Morning Transport, you sure are missing out on a weekly portion of cool fiction, delivered straight to your inbox. This week’s tale is my very own “Self-Portrait, with Bones,” and the esteemed editorship of the Transport (that would be Fran Wilde and Julian Yap) have shared this link…
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Two New Stories at Reactor and Bourbon Penn
“Shorted,” at Reactor. This one started as a thought experiment: “What if people got royalties for corporate use of their data, and that became a Universal Basic Income?” Great idea, right? Unless it results in the further commodification of human beings, which, well, read the story. (And how about that art by Erin Jia?) “Employee…
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New Story at Tor.com: FORM 8774-D
It’s business as usual at the Bureau of Metahuman, Mutant, and Occult Affairs until an employee for the government agency begins to wonder if work is following her home. . . Hope you have as much fun reading this one as I had writing it! (And don’t you love the art by Zoë van Dijk?)…
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Roundup: Anthropocene Rag, Marvel, Walking Dead, Asimov’s, Dystopia Triptych
It’s been quite a while since I updated here, largely because my desire to be an active self-promoter is always undercut by my reluctance to self-promote. But today I have won that battle, so there follows a list of things I have been or will be up to: I have a loosely sequenced trio of…
Crooked House Fictions 