Adria Bailton

Author: Adria Bailton

  • Writer in Motion Week 2 Self-Edited Story

    Previously on… What is Writer in Motion? See my Week 0 post. What did this story look like when I gave up and posted for Week 1 rough draft? You can read my initial draft at my week 1 post. The Story So Far… Normally, I’d leave a short story at least one week, often much…

  • Weekly Short Fiction Round-Up #29

    I’m excited about this week’s short fiction round-up. I have seven stories for you again. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. The Census Faces Unusal Challenges on Audvarn-3 by Jo Miles is a 1010 word story, about five minute read, published by Fireside Fiction in May. The Arcanist published Strands of Our Tomorrows…

  • Writer in Motion Week 1 Initial Draft

    Timeline  ​The prompt was revealed on July 9. On July 10, I wrote 24 words: “I am made of smoke and dreams and things you don’t want to see in the mirror.I live in the country of shadow.” After a particularly frustrating day job work day, on July 14, I wrote more words, ending my…

  • Weekly Short Fiction Round-up #28

    This week’s short fiction round-up includes seven stories published between 2007 and June 2021. There are a higher number of literary stories than usual. While my “home” genre is adult SFF, I enjoy literary fiction quite a bit as well. I hope you enjoy these stories. #BloodBossBabes by Rachel Kolar is Podcastle #676 published in…

  • Writer in Motion Week 0

    Based on the enthusiasm author Erin Fulmer showed for the Writer in Motion project, I joined up during their registration period. What is Writer in Motion? It’s an opportunity to participate in short story creation and share your journey from draft to polished story via your writer’s blog and the Writer in Motion forum. Additionally, the…

  • Weekly Short Fiction Round-Up #27

    Seven more awesome stories this week.Don’t forget to sign up for my newsletter to get these round-ups into your email inbox, along with pictures of my axolotls and puppy, Peaches, AND a short story only my newsletter subscribers will get. Blood in the Thread by Cheri Kamei was published in May at Tor.com.  ​Art copyright ©…

  • Weekly Short Fiction Round-up #26

    This week, I posted seven stories from different genres and in different formats that I enjoyed.  We’ll start with a story from Translunar Travelers Lounge. How to Break Causality and Write the Perfect Time Travel Story by Stewart C Baker was published in 2019. Unnamed by Monte Lin was published in April at Cast of…

  • Weekly Short Fiction Round-Up #25

    I posted seven short stories last week. Here they are in case you missed them. The One with the Red Door by Andrew Kozma was posted at Wyldblood Flash in April.  I posted two stories from Daily Science Fiction both from April.​Magical Companion Applicant #2251, or “Maggie” by Alexandra Grunber  That Boy in the Picture…

  • Weekly Short Fiction Round-up #24

    This week was a pretty standard weak, as far as things go. I have seven stories you might enjoy. I was recently reading someone’s May SFF short story round-up. She covered a few stories, but there are so many SFF and spec fic stories published each moth that a few for a month seems far…

  • Weekly Short Fiction Round-up #23

    This week I posted six short stories, skipping Thursday when I participated in #PitMad, which I blogged about here.  John Wiswell won a Nebula this weekend for a story in Diabolical Plots. I adored his story from March in Fireside Fiction called We Are Not Phoenixes. At 817 words, it is only a 4-minute read. …