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Life is a constant surprise when you have Alzheimer’s.

Strange Horizons published my short story “Sundowning” today. This is a very personal story for me: my maternal grandfather had Alzheimer’s for several years before he died last February, and my maternal grandmother has just had to be put in a home because of hers. The character in the story is not either of my [...]

push wind through the trach

Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry has just published two of my micropoems (one haiku, one senryu) in their February 2010 issue (pdf).

2009 Dwarf Stars Award Nominees

Got my contributor’s copy a few days ago and finally got around to scanning the cover for you all to see. Purty ain’t it? There’s some really excellent stuff in there, including my homegirl Peg Duthie’s “Evolution,” Charles Wright’s “The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight” and Jane Yolen’s “Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff.” A [...]

Krill soup, but still.

My poem “ Werepenguin” has been nominated for the 2009 Dwarf Stars Award.

Call for Submissions

Seven by Twenty, the twitterzine I edit, is looking for submissions for 2010. We take literary and speculative fiction and poems of twitter length (140 characters less room for author attribution - your name or twitter handle). No simultaneous submissions (but I reply within a week), no serials, no horror, no pay. We ask for [...]

casino lights

Just sold a haiku/senryu to tinywords. I’ll post again, of course, when it comes out.

Practically the first thing she did when she took in the alien was to give him a new name.

Escape Pod has just published my short story “Little Ambushes” as a podcast. (It was originally published over at Strange Horizons.)

Ice feathers across the biodome.

Strange Horizons has published my poem “Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds.” Go read, and if you like it (or don’t), let me know in their comments section.
This is of course based on Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” It’s a favourite for parody and homage; some available online are: Andy Bloch’s “13 Ways [...]

the train like a wide, metallic bolt of lightning, and the people on the bridge

Just had a short flash fiction piece go up at Brain Harvest: An Almanac of Bad Ass Speculative Fiction: “Ribbons. Lightning.“

the wooden bridge we all use

Picfic has published my very short story, “Stolen Lighters.”