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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…
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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…
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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 ©…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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. …
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Pitch Events or Pitch Parties
#PitMad When I decided to get on Twitter in August 2020 in preparation for querying my SFF novel, I immediately learned of #PitMad, a pitch event or pitch party where writers post tweets trying to entice agents to request their queries. You can learn all about PitMad, the rules and intentions at the Pitch Wars…
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Weekly Short Fiction Round-Up #22
This week is the week of podcasts. If you enjoy listening to stories, this will be a fun week for you! The Face Thief by Ella Anañeva was published by Speculative City in 2021, an approximately 5300 word read. Escape Artists published the next four stories in 2021. Bargain by Sarah Gailey aired on CatsCast…
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Weekly Short Fiction Round-Up #21
This week I have seven more short stories for your enjoyment. Infinite Tiny Lives, Infinitly Small by Shane Halbach was published in April 2021 by Flash Fiction Online. The Arcanist published Dance Dance Necromance by EJ Sidle in February 2020. Listening to it Rain by A.A. McNamara was published by Fireside Fiction in September 2013.…