Joanne Merriam › Once it struck, the girls became impossibly beautiful in the space of days. Even if you could pay some super-surgeon-sculptor-sage (a three-way cross between Dr. 90210, Michelangelo, and Maimonides) to crack open your face like a watermelon and chisel away at it until your bones were fine and symmetrical, you still wouldn’t look like these girls.

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Once it struck, the girls became impossibly beautiful in the space of days. Even if you could pay some super-surgeon-sculptor-sage (a three-way cross between Dr. 90210, Michelangelo, and Maimonides) to crack open your face like a watermelon and chisel away at it until your bones were fine and symmetrical, you still wouldn’t look like these girls.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Read “Beautiful White Bodies” by Alice Sola Kim.

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He’s supposed to be my friend, after all. But he isn’t, not really, because we had sex once. It was in his office, drunk on champagne after we sold our first book. We were supposed to be celebrating, but it was angry sex, drawing blood and curses. What were we were so angry about? I remember how Ravi’s fingers left bruises all over me that stayed for weeks; I kept pressing them to make them hurt again.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Read “A Rose is Rose” by Georgina Bruce.

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Krill soup, but still.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

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

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

Friday, October 23, 2009

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

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Ice feathers across the biodome.

Monday, October 12, 2009

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 [...]

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Or is it Jack who is or is not in there

Monday, August 3, 2009

Read “Rattlebox III” by Mike Allen, Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel (and donate).

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My favourite suggests that perhaps, in retrospect, the statue of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen harbour may have been something of a mistake.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Read “On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfolk” by Peter M. Ball.

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You’ve proved nothing except that Florida is full of crackpots.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Read “Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs” by Leonard Richardson.

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an audio first

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Just placed “Little Ambushes” with Escape Pod, the science fiction podcast magazine. How cool is that?

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nothing kills conversation like a strip search

Monday, May 25, 2009

“The capital of Europe used to be Brussels,” I announced to nobody in particular. “What?” asked Debbie, but the room didn’t go white, and there was no angry voice of authority shouting in my ear. “You know,” I said, “how I told you about the things we’re not allowed to talk about?” She nodded solemnly. [...]

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