@Inkpunks

From a cool t-shirt.

Galen, from the Inkpunks crew, invited me to do a guest post for them.  I did a little Sally Fields "You like me! You really like me!!" dance in my head.  Little did she know how hard I was banging said head into my desk trying to come up with a worthy post, before she mentioned, "Oh yeah, a bunch of folks are doing posts about workshops."  The big ones.  The ones all of us genre writers want to go to--Clarion, Odyssey, Viable Paradise, Uncle Orson's, &c. The ones that a lot of us can't take six weeks away from life to attend.

At least, not directly...

Check out "Autodidactic Asphyxiation" at the Inkpunks blog.

@Crossed Genres

"Combat Stress Reaction" is up today in CG's Gadgets & Artifacts issue.

Now, you could click the links and read the stories in the issue for free, but you know you want to support this fine, paying market.  Luckily, they have several ways for you to do that!

@Everyday Weirdness

"Intermezzo"

This was a flash fiction piece I wrote, prompted by and workshopped in a private office of the Zoetrope Virtual Studio, not to mention my face-to-face critique group. 

Nice to know I'm going 3 for 10 for my latest round of story submissions, eh?

@Reflection's Edge

"Tough Love"

Shouldn't be surprised that the editor of the 'zine labeled this one, which had a working title of "Love Potion #10" as Fantasy/Romance. Needless to say, the romance writers in my critique group were overjoyed!

@Fantasy Magazine

"Good for the Gander"

Published as a finalist for Fantasy Magazine’s May Madness Micro-Fiction Contest. Until June 12, 2009, you can vote for ME! ME! Vote for ME!!! your top 3 favorites. The winners will be podcasted by PodCastle, with the top prize receiving $10.

@Six Sentences, Volume 1

"Threefold Path"

Available at Amazon.

Yup, in print!!

@Six Sentences

"Self-Esteem Issues"

I'd say 2008 is off to a nice start.

@Raketenwerfer

Lit Shuffle: "Contaminant" by Ryan Boudinot

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Lit Shuffle: "Rats" by Veronica Schanoes

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Lit Shuffle: "Pretending" by Ray Vukcevich

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Lit Shuffle: "Heartland" by Karen Joy Fowler

Posted a couple days late, but hey...the bit itself was over a week late :(.

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Lit Shuffle: "Quo Vadis, Smut?" by Barry Hannah

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Lit Shuffle: "Beg, Sl Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep" by Amy Hempel

@Six Sentences - Contest #2

"Orange Sherbet and Jessica Rabbit"

Half bio, half fiction.

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Lit Shuffle: "Summer People" by Ann Beattie

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Lit Shuffle: "“You Were Neither Hot nor Cold, but Lukewarm, and So I Spit You Out” by Cara Spindler & David Erik Nelson"

@Six Sentences

"You Were a Champion In Her Eyes"

Here's hoping Messrs Becker and Fagen don't sue me...

@Raketenwerfer

Lit Shuffle: "The Black Sheep" by Italo Calvino

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Lit Shuffle: "Leda" by M. Rickert

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Lit Shuffle: "White Girl" by Maureen N. McLane