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Publication Day: Dad and Ick

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My latest story is out in Nature Futures as of today! Nature stories are free to read for a limited time after they’re published, so if you want to read it do it sooner than later.

Sometimes technology is frustrating and sometimes it is less frustrating if I think of it as an easily distracted toddler.

Nature Futures: Dad and Ick

UPDATE! Nature allows the author of their stories to share them for free via PDF. So If you can no longer read the story at the link above it is available here. Dad and Ick PDF

Looking over the blog, it looks like I forgot to post another story that came out last year. So here is a bonus, very short story for you. https://flashinaflash.tumblr.com/post/698104361357819904/do-not-ignore-this-plea-the-mother-spider-is

Publication Day: Which World Ending Nightmare Are You?

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My latest story is out today in If There’s Anyone Left Volume 3. The ebook is available here

Which World Ending Nightmare are You? is the story in the form of a test you never knew you needed. If what you needed is to find out what kind of apocalypse you embody that is.

Publication Day: Guard of the Crossing

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My story, Guard of the Crossing, went live this week on Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast.

This story was previously published on SIc Semper Serpent’s Patreon page, so this is its first public outing. And its first audio publication. I really enjoy hearing my stories read by voices other than my own. I think the narrator hit it out of the park.

Publication Day: Date and Time

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My third story of the year is out now.

https://dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon/alternate-history/susan-taitel/date-and-time

Gif chosen because publication days always make me want to twirl and because there is a tiny bit of ice skating in the story. Though my characters are not nearly as good at it as Yuri.

The idea for this one started out with me noticing that one of my favorite speculative genres is when a mythical or historical figure gets transplanted into mundane settings and scenarios often without much explanation for how they got there. Neil Gaiman’s Chivalry is a good example of one such story. So I’ve had in the back of my mind that I wanted to try my hand at it. But first I had to come up with both a figure to use and a situation to put them in. I don’t remember how I decided on Lady Jane Grey goes on a blind date, but once I did I knew it should be a good date. Her real story is such a sad one, it was cathartic to show a fictional Jane a good time.

The park they go to is a real park in Minneapolis that does host a holiday fair most weekends leading up to Christmas, though not these last two years because panini.

Cat Lady (is a story that I wrote)

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And it was published in the November issue of Galaxy’s Edge Magazine. You can read it by clicking on the link below and then clicking on the title in the table of contents.

http://www.galaxysedge.com/#editorWord

I might be teensy bit excited!

And it made me realize that I never posted here when another of my stories was published this Summer in Stupefying Stories.

http://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2018/09/showcase-amenities-by-susan-taitel.html