There was a strange passenger now, not in the cabins or the tiny cells, but in the hold, in the big reinforced cage deep inside Midnight’s Lady’s iron and steel bowels that was sometimes used when a man got drunk and nasty. Midnight’s Lady met a small vessel with one lone ghostlight burning at its prow. There was much low-voiced, urgent talking and ( Read more... )

An original story commissioned for HP Lovecraft Tribute Month, “Maybe the Stars,” is now available at the Drabblecast.

Previous stories this month include an original story by S. Boyd Taylor, “The Elder Thing and the Puddle People,” and Lovecraft’s haunting “The Music of Erich Zann.”  The latter podcast includes Norm Sherman’s reading of some of ( Read more... )

 
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Well, that was an interesting start to 2011. Let's never do that again, OK? In fact, we'll just draw a veil over that little episode.

Belatedly! But joyously! reporting that Drabblecast ended 2010 with a podcast of my swampy tale "Scales," first published in Lone Star Stories.  It's got a killer narration by AuralSpice (with a secondary character ( Read more... )

Shawna at the Phoenix-like Realms of Fantasy will be buying "Escaping Salvation," a short story co-written with the lovely and talented joshrountree !

"The Red Bride," first published at Strange Horizons and podcast at Drabblecast, will be reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Rich Horton.
And now for some pimpage:

SFWA's 2010 ( Read more... )

My Strange Horizons story "The Red Bride" is now up at Drabblecast.

Delianne Forget's performance is so spot-on it gives me shivers, as do the music and effects.  And James Shackell's drabble "Twinkle Twinkle" is another cheerful children-themed tale.

I got to meet Norm Sherman and some of the other fantastic folk from Drabblecast at Dragoncon, ( Read more... )