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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - List of Authors - 0 views

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies FREE Fiction Stories

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  • Yant, Christie
  • Yoachim, Caroline M.
  • Wood, Jonathan
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  • Willrich, Chris
  • Wilder, Leslianne
  • Wentworth, K.D.
  • Wells, Dean
  • Wallis, Wren
  • Wagner, Wendy N.
  • Upshaw, Garth
  • Valentine, Genevieve
  • Truslow, Tori
  • Tobler, E. Catherine
  • Treadwell, A.B.
  • Tissell, Chris
  • Tidwell, Erin A.
  • Teppo, Mark
  • Tem, Steve Rasnic
  • Taylor, Nicole M.
  • Swirsky, Rachel
  • Sutter, James L.
  • Surridge, Matthew David
  • Stevens, John E.O.
  • Stern, Renee
  • Sterling, Alys
  • Steinmetz, Ferrett
  • Sriduangkaew, Benjanun
  • Smart, A.C.
  • Santos, Rodello
  • Schneyer, Kenneth
  • Scorza, Nick
  • Seybold, Grace
  • Shaw, K.C.
  • Shelley, Rebecca Lyn
  • Skerry, Cory
  • Ronald, Margaret
  • Ridler, Jason S.
  • Rambo, Cat
  • Ralston, Corie
  • Price, Laura E.
  • Pi, Tony
  • Phillips, Holly
  • Perdue, Catherine S.
  • Parks, Richard
  • Pagliassotti, Dru
  • Ordoñez, Raphael
  • Olson, Amanda M.
  • Oakes, Rita
  • Nicholls, Jack
  • Murr, Joe L.
  • Mottla, Kristina C.
  • Milstein, David
  • Mintz, Catherine
  • Millering, Kris
  • Miller, Kamila Zeman
  • McHugh, Ian
  • McGeever, Fox
  • Martinez, Christian K.
  • Maloney, Geoffrey
  • MacFarlane, Alex Dally
  • MacLeod, Kate
  • Macdonald, Debra Doyle & James D.
  • Linsteadt, Sylvia
  • Linklater, Greg
  • Lingen, Marissa
  • Levine, David D.
  • Lemberg, Rose
  • Lee, Karalynn
  • Lee, Yoon Ha
  • Lecky, James
  • Leckie, Ann
  • Larson, Rich
  • Lackey, Jamie
  • Künsken, Derek
  • Kressel, Matthew
  • Kovic, Peter
  • Kloos, Marko
  • Khanna, Rajan
  • Katz, Nathaniel
  • Kabza, K.J.
  • Kaftan, Vylar
  • Ivy, Anne
  • Isacksen, Jeff
  • Howe, Justin
  • Howard, Kat
  • Hoover, Kenneth Mark
  • Hoffman, Erin
  • Hodge, Rosamund
  • Heine, Adam
  • Haynes, Michael
  • Harvey, Sara M.
  • Guilín, Peadar Ó
  • Grist, Michael John
  • Grintalis, Damien Walters
  • Greylyn, Jennifer
  • Green, Christopher
  • Gordon, B.
  • Gilman, Emily
  • Fusco, Adam Corbin
  • Fulda, Nancy
  • Freestone, Peta
  • Forest, Susan
  • Ellsworth, Spencer
  • Fawcett, Heather
  • Files, Gemma
  • Finlay, Charles Coleman Finlay & Rae Carson
  • Fitzwater, A.J.
  • Edwards, Sarah L.
  • Edge, T.D.
  • Doyle, Noreen
  • Dolton, Brian
  • Dikeman, Kris
  • Dickinson, Seth
  • DeLuca, Michael J.
  • Davenport, T.F.
  • Darbyshire, Peter
  • Daly, Eljay
  • Daly, Paul
  • Cunningham, P.E.
  • Crosshill, Tom
  • Cross, Anne
  • Croke, Marie
  • Connolly, Tina
  • Coleman, Liz
  • Clitheroe, Heather
  • Cheney, J. Kathleen
  • Chatham, Ann
  • Cashier, Erin
  • Case, Stephen
  • Carroll, Siobhan
  • Carlyle, Emily M. Z.
  • Campion, Harry R.
  • Callaway, Adam
  • Butler, S.C.
  • Burke, Sue
  • Burgis, Stephanie
  • Bullington, Jesse
  • Bulkin, Nadia
  • Brennan, Marie
  • Braver, A.C. Smart & Quinn
  • Bossert, Gregory Norman
  • Bodard, Aliette de
  • Bolich, S.A.
  • Blake, David G.
  • Bey, Matthew
  • Bennardo, M.
  • Beehr, Dana
  • Baker, Mishell
  • Bangs, J.S.
  • Barnett, Barbara A.
  • Beaulieu, Bradley P.
  • Austin, Alec
  • Ashley, Michael Anthony
  • Arkenberg, Therese
  • Arkenberg, Megan
  • Allmon, Don
  • Alexa, Camille
  • Allen, Kathryn
  • Allen, Mike
  • Ahmed, Saladin
  • Acks, Rachael
  • “The Book of Autumn”
  • “Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride”
  • “Where Virtue Lives”
  • “Over a Narrow Sea”
  • “The Ivy-Smothered Palisade”
  • “Pale”
  • “Bandit and the Seventy Raccoon War”
  • “The Storms in Arisbat”
  • “The Godslayer's Wife”
  • “Invitation of the Queen”
  • “Juggernaut”
  • “The Gardens of Landler Abbey”
  • “The Summer King”
  • “Winterblood”
  • “Hence the King from Kagehana, Pt. II”
  • “Hence the King from Kagehana, Pt. I”
  • “To Kiss the Granite Choir, Pt. II”
  • “To Kiss the Granite Choir, Pt. I”
  • “Blood Remembers”
  • “Casualties”
  • “Throwing Stones”
  • “The Judge's Right Hand”
  • “From the Spices of Sanandira, Pt. II”
  • “From the Spices of Sanandira, Pt. I”
  • “After Compline, Silence Falls”
  • “The Secret of Pogopolis”
  • “Transitions of Truth and Tears”
  • “Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood”
  • “In the Age of Iron and Ashes”
  • “Blighted Heart”
  • “Beneath the Mask”
  • “Kraken's Honor”
  • “The Telling”
  • “Havoc”
  • “The Ascent of Unreason”
  • “Dancing the Warrior, Pt. II”
  • “Dancing the Warrior, Pt. I”
  • “Two Pretenders”
  • “And Blow Them at the Moon”
  • “Remembering Light”
  • “Driftwood”
  • “Kingspeaker”
  • “Princess Courage”
  • “The Adventures of Ernst, Who Began a Man, Became a Cyclops, and Finished a Hero”
  • “The Five Days of Justice Merriwell”
  • “The Giants of Galtares”
  • “More Than Once Upon A Time”
  • “Sate My Thirst with Ink and Blood”
  • “The Magic of Dark and Hollow Places”
  • “Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin”
  • “Walking Out”
  • “The Prince's Shadow”
  • “In the Gardens of the Night”
  • “The Stone Oaks”
  • “Read This Quickly, For You Will Only Have a Moment...”
  • “The Silver Khan”
  • “Eighth Eye”
  • “The Alchemist's Feather”
  • “Hangman”
  • “A Marble for the Drowning River”
  • “Fleurs du Mal”
  • “The Dragon's Child”
  • “Gone Sleeping”
  • “Winecask Bellies and Owl Wings”
  • “One Ear Back”
  • “Child of Sunlight, Woman of Blood”
  • “The God-Death of Halla”
  • “Shades of Amber”
  • “The Popinjay's Daughter”
  • “Bearslayer and the Black Knight”
  • “Waiting for Number Five”
  • “Snake in the Glass”
  • “Dirt Witch”
  • “Shatterach Gates”
  • “The Angel Azrael Delivers Small Mercies”
  • “The Angel Azrael Rode into the Town of Burnt Church on a Dead Horse”
  • “The Motor, the Mirror, the Mind”
  • “Death and the Thunderbird, Pt. II”
  • “Death and the Thunderbird, Pt. I”
  • “The Nine-Tailed Cat”
  • “The Circus of King Minos' Masque”
  • “Between Two Treasons”
  • “Of Thinking Being and Beast”
  • “Worth of Crows”
  • “The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and Their Wounds”
  • “Silent, Still, and Cold”
  • “Clockwork Heart, Clockwork Soul”
  • “The Sacrifice Pit”
  • “'His Crowning Glory': a new tale of the Antique Lands”
  • “System, Magic, Spirit”
  • “The Girl Who Tasted the Sea”
  • “As the Prairie Grasses Sing”
  • “The Woman and the Mountain”
  • “The Tinyman and Caroline”
  • “The Last Devil”
  • “The Death of Roach”
  • “The Fairy Gaol”
  • “The Crystal Stair, Pt. II”
  • “The Crystal Stair, Pt. I”
  • “To Go Home to Leal”
  • “Luck Fish”
  • “A Song of Blackness”
  • “Knowing Neither Kin Nor Foe”
  • “The Jewels of Montforte, Pt. II”
  • “The Jewels of Montforte, Pt. I”
  • “The Castle That Jack Built”
  • “On the Transmontane Run with the Aerial Mail Express”
  • “Father's Kill”
  • “The Book Thief”
  • “They Make of You a Monster”
  • “Bone Diamond”
  • “Heartless”
  • “Six Seeds”
  • “Pawn's Gambit”
  • “And Her Eyes Sewn Shut with Unicorn Hair”
  • “More Full of Weeping Than You Can Understand”
  • “Sightwolf”
  • “Stormchaser, Stormshaper”
  • “High Moon”
  • “Haxan”
  • “The Calendar of Saints”
  • “Shadows Under Hexmouth Street”
  • “Of Shifting Skin and Certainty”
  • “Scry”
  • “The Leafsmith in Love”
  • “Prashkina's Fire”
  • “Beyond the Shrinking World”
  • “The Last Gorgon”
  • “Ink and Blood”
  • “A Bounty Split Three Ways”
  • “The Suffering Gallery”
  • “The God Thieves”
  • “Seeking The Great Raymundo”
  • “Beloved of the Sun”
  • “And Other Such Delights”
  • “The Bone House”
  • “Unsilenced”
  • “The Book of Locked Doors”
  • “The Territorialist”
Sunny Jackson

Submission Guidelines : Escape Pod - 0 views

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Audio FREE Fantasy Horror Sci-Fi

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  • Escape Pod is
  • a science fiction magazine
  • we want that which evokes a sense of wonder, or fun, or simply makes us think about our own world in a new way.
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  • send fantasy stories to our other sister podcast, PodCastle
  • Please do not send simultaneous submissions of a single story to multiple Escape Artists podcasts (Escape Pod, PodCastle, and Pseudopod). When submitting to one Escape Artists podcast, please wait to hear back about it before submitting the same story to another.
  • We want short stories between about 2,000 and 6,000 words. The sweet spot’s somewhere between 3,500 and 5,000 words
  • We will buy longer, but you really have to WOW us.
  • We are closed to flash fiction as of 01/10/11.
  • We’re an audio market
  • We do not discriminate between previously published and unpublished works.
  • it doesn’t hurt us if a story has previously appeared in another market
  • we buy nonexclusive rights
  • we encourage new authors to send their work to other markets first, and then send it to us for audio rights after the story has appeared.
  • You’re welcome to give us first dibs on anything you like, but consider: if your story’s good enough for us to buy it, it’s probably good enough to sell to another market first. Why not try that, and get two audiences and two checks?
  • We’re looking for fiction with strong pacing, well-defined characters, engaging dialogue, and clear action.
  • above all we’re looking for fun.
  • Humor is highly encouraged.
  • Upbeat, optimistic stories are encouraged.
  • we may contact you with questions about the story, its background, or pronunciations
  • We accept stories in e-mail, in plain text format, at the address submit@escapepod.org.
  • we prefer plain text.
  • Send it from the e-mail address at which you want us to correspond with you
  • On the Subject: line of the message, be sure to include the title of the story.
  • we use the e-mail subject to identify the story
  • In the body of the message, what we want is as follows: 1. Your name. (Your real name. The story can have a different byline, and we’ll credit that byline in public, but we need to know who’s legally offering us this story and to whom the check should be written.) 2. Your mailing address. (We need this for contract purposes; it will be kept confidential.) 3. A cover statement briefly giving us your publication credits, and in particular telling us whether this story has been published before or adapted into audio. If there’s anything we need to know about available rights, tell us that too. This section is optional, but it’s helpful for us to have this information if we buy your story and want to know more about you for bio purposes. (Note: When we say “briefly,” we mean your top five or six publications. We have literally had people send us resumés that were longer than the story submitted. This only makes us sigh.) 4. The word count of the story, according to your word processing software. 5. The title of the story. 6. The story’s byline. (Optional if it’s the same as your legal name.) 7. The text of the story. Use single spacing, with blank lines between paragraphs and _underscores_ for emphasis.
  • one story at a time!
  • Once you’ve sent us your story, we will review it and respond to you via e-mail.
  • If we decide we’d like it for our podcast, we’ll send you a contract as a PDF file in e-mail. You will sign it and send it back to us via e-mail (after scanning it), fax, or postal mail. Then we’ll pay you via check or PayPal and start producing.
  • You can get away with breaking almost any of these rules if the story is fun enough. What’s fun? We know it when we see it.
  • cover letter
  • brief bio
  • Web site
  • we usually can’t give you an accurate timetable of when your story will appear in the podcast.
  • If the text of the work is currently available online for free, that’s great! Let us know in your cover letter so we can link to it in the web post if we publish your story.
  • The files Escape Pod produces are released under a Creative Commons license. Specifically, we use the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Briefly, this means that the entire world has permission to distribute the podcast for free, provided they give credit for it, don’t try to make money off of it, and don’t change it in any way.
  • you retain your copyright and all rights
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Nonstop to Portales by Connie Willis | Lightspeed Magazine - 0 views

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Lightspeed Magazine

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  • I’d already thought about the future, and I knew what it was going to be.
  • The Black Sun
  • Seetee Ship
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  • Grand Master Nebula Award
  • Darker Than You Think
  • Wonder’s Child
  • Carter Stewart
  • Nonstop to Mars
  • Dead Star Station
  • The Metal Man
  • The Legion of Space
  • The Girl from Mars
  • The Meteor Girl
  • Dead Star Station
  • ‘If the field were strong enough,’ he said in the story, ‘we could bring physical objects through space-time instead of mere visual images.’
  • ‘No one can predict the future, he can only point the way.’
  • No cameras. No gift shop. No littering or trespassing or whining. What kind of tour is this?
  • “He predicted ‘a new Golden Age of fair cities, of new laws and new machines,’” Tonia was saying, “‘of human capabilities undreamed of, of a civilization that has conquered matter and Nature, distance and time, disease and death.’”
  • ‘Science is the doorway to the future, scientification, the golden key. It goes ahead and lights the way. And when science sees the things made real in the author’s mind, it makes them real indeed.’
  • Portales is right on the road to nowhere.
  • Jack Williamson
  • Amazing Stories
  • The Legion of Time by Jack Williamson
  • She picked up the book. “The guy who wrote this lives in Portales?” she said. “Really?”
  • But at least now I had something to read. I went back to the Portales Inn and up to my room, opened a can of Coke and all the windows, and sat down to read The Legion of Time, which was about a girl who’d travelled back in time to tell the hero about the future.
  • “The world is a long corridor, and time is a lantern carried steadily along the hall,”
  • “If time were simply an extension of the universe, was tomorrow as real as yesterday? If one could leap forward—”
  • What if that was why she kept pausing when she talked, because she had to remember to say “Jack Williamson is” instead of “Jack Williamson was“, “does most of his writing” instead of “did most of his writing,” had to remember what year it was and what hadn’t happened yet?
  • “‘If the field were strong enough,’” I remembered Tonia saying out at the ranch, “‘we could bring physical objects through space-time instead of mere visual images.’” And the tour group had all smiled.
  • What if they were the physical objects? What if the tour had travelled through time instead of space?
  • The book talked about quantum mechanics and probability, about how changing one thing in the past could affect the whole future. Maybe that was why they had to come when Jack Williamson was out of town, to avoid doing something to him that might change the future.
  • Even if they were tourists from the future, there was no reason to travel back in time to see a science fiction writer when they could see presidents or rock stars. Unless they lived in a future where all the things he’d predicted in his stories had come true. What if they had genetic engineering and androids and spaceships? What if in their world they’d terraformed planets and gone to Mars and explored the galaxy? That would make Jack Williamson their forefather, their founder. And they’d want to come back and see where it all started.
  • “Wow! Lined up and waiting to get in! This is a first,” he said, which answered my first question. I asked it anyway. “Do you get many visitors?”
  • “A few,” he said. “Not as many as I think there should be for a man who practically invented the future. Androids, terraforming, antimatter, he imagined them all. We’ll have more visitors in two weeks. That’s when the Williamson Lectureship week is. We get quite a few visitors then. The writers who are speaking usually drop in.”
  • “Let me show you around,” he said. “We’re adding to the collection all the time.” He took down a long flat box. “This is the comic strip Jack did, Beyond Mars. And here is where we keep his original manuscripts.” He opened one of the filing cabinets and pulled out a sheaf of typed yellow sheets. “Have you ever met Jack?”
  • “Oh, the nicest man you’ve ever met. It’s hard to believe he’s one of the founders of science fiction. He’s in here all the time. Wonderful guy. He’w working on a new book, The Black Sun. He’s out of town this weekend, or I’d take you over and introduce you. He’s always delighted to meet his fans. Is there anything specific you wanted to know about him?”
  • “This person who told me about the drugstore, they mentioned something about Number 5516. Is that one of his books?” “5516? No, that’s the asteroid they’re naming after him. How’d you know about that? It’s supposed to be a surprise. They’re giving him the plaque Lectureship week.” “An asteroid,” I said. I started out again. “Thanks for coming in,” the librarian said. “Are you just visiting or do you live here?” “I live here,” I said.
  • “I know how you felt when you saw that Amazing Stories in the drugstore,” I’d tell him. “I’m interested in the future, too. I liked what you said about it, about science fiction lighting the way and science making the future real.”
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Daily Science Fiction - 0 views

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Sci-Fi Daily Science Fiction

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Everything is Terrible but You Should Read This Story | SmokeLong Quarterly - 0 views

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    This is a story born of need. It's the story you need right now. This is the story of a mother and a daughter in which the mother doesn't disappear, doesn't peace out, doesn't die. This is a story where the mother stays. via Pocket
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Audio Short Story - WEAKNESS - Shami Stovall - 0 views

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  • Sunny Jackson on 25 Sep 19
     
    via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io Audio Short Story - WEAKNESS - Shami Stovall via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2khRT61 Not too long ago, I won an Honorable Mention from the Writers of the Future short story contest for my short story, WEAKNESS. As a thank you for visiting my tiny corner of the internet, I reached out to a professional voice actor (George Kastrinos) …
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For Your Consideration: PodCastle Award Eligibility 2019 - PodCastle - 0 views

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IFTTT Pocket Podcastle Fantasy Audio Podcast Short Stories free Fiction

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    For Your Consideration: PodCastle Award Eligibility 2019 In 2019, PodCastle produced 15 original stories and 33 reprints. For your consideration, we present the Escape Artists stories which are eligible for nomination in the upcoming award season. … In 2019, PodCastle produced 14 original stories and 34 reprints. For your consideration, we present the Escape Artists stories which are eligible for nomination in the upcoming award season. PodCastle itself is eligible for the Best Semiprozine Hugo…
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Accelerando - Charles Stross | Feedbooks - 0 views

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    The book is a collection of nine short stories telling the tale of three generations of a highly dysfunctional family before, during, and after a technological singularity. It was originally written as a series of novelettes and novellas, all published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in the period 2001 to 2004. The first three stories follow the character of "venture altruist" Manfred Macx starting in the early 21st Century, the second three stories follow his daughter Amber, and the final three focus largely on her son Sirhan in the completely transformed world at the end of the century. According to Stross, the initial inspiration for the stories was his experience working as a programmer for a high-growth company during the dot-com boom of the 1990s.
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War Story | A Free Flash Fiction Story by Joshua Robertson - 0 views

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    The chopper could be heard in the distance. Chakk-chakk-chak-chak. It was still out of view behind the sheet of mountains. The sound of the unicorn blade clacking over the sounds of gunfire gave the platoon courage. via Pocket War Story | A Free Flash Fiction Story by Joshua Robertson via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2w1kONM
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Princess Lunastella - Shami Stovall - 0 views

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    via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io Short Story - Princess Lunastella - Shami Stovall via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2jKM3tE This story won a Silver Honorable Mention over at the Writers of the Future short story contest, and now I want to share it with all of you as a way of saying thanks for checking out my tiny corner of the internet! via Pocket
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expandedhorizons.net » Submissions - 0 views

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  • We do not publish a story unless it in some way promotes the inclusion and voices of real life under-represented people.
  • 6,000 words or fewer
  • We also publish poetry.
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  • We pay US $30 for each story, essay or poem accepted, regardless of its word count.
  • We aim to be a venue where people of under-represented backgrounds can tell their stories in their own voices
  • challenge the established biases of the field
  • those whose points of view tend to be under-represented, or represented unrealistically or negatively in most speculative fiction may speak out in their own voice
  • combat sexism
  • stories authentically portraying the experiences of women
  • how gender affects people
  • women don’t have to look or act a certain stereotypical way in order to be sympathetic characters with powerful voices of their own
  • bisexual
  • Show us these characters in their own, unique voices.
  • We want to create a story-telling venue for those with rare and unusual sensitivities and awarenesses.
  • realistically reflect a deep personal sense and understanding of what it is like to endure and survive these hardships
  • If, on the other hand, your story authentically reflects the experience of obese people — your character happens to be obese but is a full human being, your character’s obesity is not the sole purpose of the story or the character, and your character’s obesity is never described by the author or any character as inhuman/a monstrosity, we will consider your piece.
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Rebecca Makkai Recommends a New Story by JM Holmes - Electric Literature - 0 views

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Instapaper Pocket diigo ifttt free fiction stories

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    I sometimes visualize the tension within stories as a maze of elastic bands stretching from character to character. At any moment, someone might step backwards, pulling a band tighter, making everything more fraught. And at any moment, another might… Rebecca Makkai Recommends a New Story by JM Holmes - Electric Literature via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2Q6A1WQ
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Strange Horizons - Ndakusuwa By Blaize Kaye - 0 views

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Pocket diigo ifttt free fiction stories

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    This story was first published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination (Nov/Dec 2016) and was shortlisted for the inaugural Nommo Award for best African SF short story. via Pocket
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Read The Gift Giving, a Christmas short story by Joan Aiken MBE. - 0 views

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Pocket diigo ifttt free fiction stories

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  • Sunny Jackson on 26 Sep 18
     
    In a writing career spanning six decades, Joan Aiken wrote stories of wolves, naughty pet ravens, pirates, necklaces made of raindrops, and much more. This Christmas, we publish a collection of her favourite stories, including The Gift Giving, which…
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Read my flash story "The Monster Hunter's Last Lament" - written for R.B. Wood's Word C... - 0 views

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Instapaper Pocket diigo ifttt free fiction stories

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  • Sunny Jackson on 07 Oct 18
     
    My latest story for R.B. Wood's Word Count Podcast was inspired by the prompt "Where have our students gone", the photo prompt (a dilapidated school bus), and my recent interest in the show Supernatural. It is, I guess, my take on what life might be… Read my flash story "The Monster Hunter's Last Lament" - written for R.B. Wood's Word Count Podcast - Maria Haskins via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2Pbv523
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  • common reasons for rejection
  • “near-future” stories dealing with “imminent change,”
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      They want stories set in the near future, not the distant horizon.
  • We’re interested in what we can see and develop and control, what’s in front of us and what we need to react to.
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  • an immediate issue
  • dystopias that remove the future — where global epidemics or nuclear wars or catastrophic climate change have set us back to the Stone Age, or, hell, even the 1950s — kind of defeat the purpose
  • Instead of the post-collapse future, in other words, how about sending us to the mid-collapse future, when there’s still a chance to effect change?
  • I want to know I’m in a science fictional future in the first five hundred words or less.
  • put it up front where I can see it.
  • weak point of attack is another major cause for rejection. Just as I want to see the SF early, I want to see the story conflict early.
  • details need to be made relevant to the plot
  • The more successful stories are the ones that integrate their SF world-building into a well structured narrative.
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