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Short Fiction Round-Up #55
Posted a little late with a back-dated time. My Newsletter went out this week! If you don’t catch all these blog posts or just want a highlight of stories, be sure to sign up. Every couple months I will send you my favorites out of a large listing. Our Days of Tear-Stained Glass by Avra…
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Short Fiction Round-Up #54
Welcome to my fifty-fourth short fiction round-up! Please enjoy the seven stories this week. Song of the Balsa Wood Bird by Katherine Quevedo was published this month by Fireside Fiction. Daily Science Fiction published Shattered Petals of Celadon by M.K. Hutchins this month. Here Be Monsters by Avra Margariti was published The Arcanist this month. Diabolical Plots published Tides That…
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Short Fiction Round-Up #53
Starting in Fall of 2020, I posted short fiction I’d been reading on my Twitter. Just about a year ago, I started posting story suggestions every day. It wasn’t until February that I started posting round-ups here of the stories. I generally post weekly, but I posted nearly daily at first to catch-up. Here’s to…
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Short Fiction Round-Up #52
This week I suggested seven more stories in my daily story suggestion on Twitter and Facebook. Here’s a summary. Habeas Codex by Curtis C. Chen was published by Fireside Fiction in 2021. The Arcanist published The Ground Here by Tyler Norton in 2021. The Yellow Leaves by Joanna Koch was published by Tales From Between.…
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Reading Reflection 2021
Reflection On New Year’s Day 2021, I posted what I thought were reasonable goals for my reading. They turned out to be overly ambitious. I lost my login to Storygraph. My reading rate dropped drastically. The 2018 – 50 books, 2019 – 100 books, 2020 – 30-40 books trend did not hold and I did…
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Short Fiction Round-Up #51
2021 wrapped up, but my daily short story recommendations on social media keep on with a blog summary every week. Here we go! Terminal by Dona McCormack was published by Speculative City in 2020. Tales From Between published There is No Bunk #7 by Patrick Barb. I, Cthulu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me…
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Time for Magic
In late November, Amalie/A.R. Frederiksen posted a tweet about a short story exchange. Lately, I’ve witnessed a lot of my friends finding no joy in writing as they’re stuck in the query trenches or on sub. I’d love to change that, to end the year with everybody feeling inspired, and maybe you’ll help me? Enter……
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End of 2021 Goals and 2022 Goal Setting
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash It’s the last Friday of the year and time to assess my success at meeting my writing goals for the year and set new goals for 2022!I posted my original goals at the end of 2020, and two updates-one in April and the other in August. Short Stories Short…
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Short Fiction Round-Up #50
This is the last short fiction round-up of the year! I’ll post again in a week, but we’ll be in 2022! I had a good time with this week’s stories. I’m drifting into reading and enjoying horror and horror-adjacent stories a little more this season. I’m Not Ready to Leave by Zion Mc Neil was…
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Short Fiction Round-Up #49
I forgot to write last week’s short fiction round-up, so today is both last week’s and this week’s stories. Seven Steps to Immortality by Jennifer Brozek was published by Daily Science Fiction in November. Strange Horizons published Magnificent Pigs by Cat Rambo in 2006. In the Field Where Stories Meet by Virginia M. Mohlere was published…