Waistland. What can I say? The Internet can be a dangerous place, especially when you end up trapped on the Grim Reaper’s website.
Polar Borealis Magazine kindly makes access to all its stories free. Check out Waistland at POLAR-BOREALIS-31-July-August-2024.pdf (polarborealis.ca) — if you dare.
Bubba’s Turn at Bat pits an AI with attitude against the inscrutable fallibilities of its human co-workers, with comic but tragic results.
You can read the whole sordid tale within the pages of Machines That Make Us (tychebooks.com).
The Ninth Iteration finds coding wizard Oscar face-to-face with the girl of his dreams, except she’s a tiny hologram. A master programer, herself, she instructs him how to bring her to life in his living room and, yes, mayhem follows.
Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, Issue #30, is now available at neo-opsis.ca/Store.htm.
In Days of Gold and Murder Betsy’s best friend dies at her feet, the victim of a very peculiar weapon…one that Betsy hoped she would never again encounter. Now she must identify and hunt down the killer in an effort to save her new home in gold rush California from an unimaginable source of greed.
Enigma Front: The Stories We Hide is now available from Amazon.com.
When the Suit No Longer Fits Miranda figures it’s time for her superhero husband Dave to retire, especially given what she knows about his super powers and he doesn’t. But Dave’s not getting her hints…
Enigma Front: Onward! is now available from Amazon.com.
Shackling God is back as a reprint in Enigma Front: The Monster Within, the third and final volume of Analemma Books’ anthology series. (For a synopsis, see below.)
Enigma Front: The Monster Within is now available from Amazon.com and Kobo.
The Cure. Climate change is accelerating much faster than scientists can account for. Oceanographer Davina Wilson’s pretty sure she knows why but, to prove it, she must first cope with a fatally ill son, an unpredictable ex, predictably skeptical colleagues, and a climate change agent she never imagined.
This is one of twenty-two stories in the Aurora Award nominated anthology Enigma Front: Burnt, available for purchase in print or as an e-book from Amazon.com and Kobo.
Shackling God. What would you do if you’d just proved the finite nature of the universe then met an infinite entity? Elmer Riddell, a mathematician working on his doctoral dissertation, comes up with a solution he hopes will land him fame among his peers AND satisfy his conviction God is infinite.
This is one of the ten stories in “In Places Between 2015”, the chapbook of finalist entries in the Robyn Herrington Memorial Short Story Contest, published in August 2015.
A Fable for Those Who Would Mess with Fate. This is the story of a young man from Los Angeles whose life is serious messed with by his nocturnal lover, Fate. A condensed form of it took Honorable Mention in the 2011 Robyn Herrington Memorial Short Story Contest. It is one of the eighteen stories that comprise Analemma Books’ Enigma Front anthology, which was launched in August 2015. I was also co-editor of this book.
Enigma Front is available for purchase in print or as an e-book from Amazon.com and Kobo.
Caves of Noble Truth and Dangerous Knowledge. This wuxia/steampunk mash-up revolves around a young girl and her grandfather, who are guardians of the ancient (and real) archives stored in the Mògāo Caves near Dūnhuáng in western China. It is one of the twenty-five stories that comprise Solarwyrm Press‘ “Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction”, which was released in May 2014.
Without Blemish. This short story is about Gaia’s Guardian of the Okanagan Valley. It is included in “The Urban Green Man” anthology published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy.
