My story “The Vampire Gustav at the End of the Universe” has been selected as part of the Bewildering Stories Quarterly Best (fourth quarter, issues 355-365). I’m pretty honoured – especially since “Gustav” is one of my strangest tales (actually, that’s probably what makes it a good fit for Bewildering Stories).
Tag: flash fiction
The Stinger, by Asher Ellis on Flashes In The Dark
(If I’ve figured out how to stop trackbacks, finally, then this shouldn’t appear on the Flashes In The Dark site like this. If it does, I’ll have to come up with another way for posting links to blogs … )
Asher’s wicked flash horror story has just appeared on Flashes in the Dark. This is a very cool story, which reminded me of inadvertantly waiting until the end of the credits in Zombieland, just way creepier.
Asher builds the tension so well … you’ll just have to read it yourself
Nathan Rosen – I Know an Old Lady
Flicking through the web I stumbled on Nathan’s (editor of MicroHorror) story I Know an Old Lady in Apex Magazine from a couple of years back. I’ve seen some of Mr Rosen’s stories before and always been impressed – this particular one is just primo.
The muse and the cheesecake
I talk her up a lot, so I guess I’m a fan, but Jodi MacArthur has penned a brilliant essay about the writing life. The article has been published on Flash Fiction Chronicles – My Muse Wants Cheesecake. Jodi talks about those inner and outer conflicts through which writing always emerges. Engaging, heartfelt and funny.
Fiancées Among Us published in Flashes in the Dark
My latest story ‘Fiancées Among Us’ has been published in the fabulous Flashes in the Dark. It was intriguing to write something more supernatural again, lots of my recent stories have been a bit more reality based. Or not. Anyway, this is my entry for their Worst of Love contest.
Yay, I think I’ve figured out how to stop the pingbacks happening – if this appears as a comment under the story, sorry I really didn’t mean it to. Whew, technology (wordpress having been invented after I was born).
Torn asunder … well tutoring just about over
Well today is the deadline for getting my creative writing tutoring back to the university. It’s done, bar one student who had an extension, and once that’s done the summer is mine to write and create. Current plans involve a new project of stories and inter-linked stories and a new blog to separate the writing out from the music.
Meantime, check out this cool new flash story from Joshua Scribner – Closer to pure – on Flashes in the Dark. Very creepy twist on the vampire idea.
Coincidence
Okay, I know that that some of you who have read both stories from the last couple of posts – “Vampire Gustave …” and “Puncture Wound” – have noticed they have something in common. Yet the stories were written months apart, submitted months apart, and accepted months apart. That they came out within a couple of days is just coincidence. Kind of a cool coincidence though, I think.
… Vampire Gustav …
My flash story “The Vampire Gustave at the End of the Universe” has been published today in issue 359 of Bewildering Stories. This is an unusual one for me, more conceptual than anything. Read it here.
Puncture Wound – new story out now
My story Puncture Wound is out now in the November issue of Antipodean Science Fiction. This is an inter-linked story, a prequel if such a thing is possible, to my story How Things Fall, which was on the same site last year.
nb – 23 December: now archived – see this post for details
Jodi MacArthur – writer
Keep an eye out for Jodi’s fiction – she’s had some killer stories in The New Flesh, Flashes in the Dark, etc., with loads more coming out. She’ll be in the Horror Through The Ages anthology too with her story “Skin”, right after my story “The Stone Goddess” – I’m honoured to be rubbing shoulders with her. Check out Jodi’s blog here.
Triple V Publishing 