First Day on Nightshift Republished

My short story, "First Day on Nightshift" was reprinted in The Appraratus Almanacfrom Jayhenge publishing.

Heavens to Murgatroyd

I have two stories, "Murgatroyd and the Clerk" and "Murgatroyd and the AI" in the Lintusen Press anthology, Heavens to Murgatroyd. My entries are "Murgatroyd and the Clerk" and "Murgatroyd and the AI".

I also reviewed the collection (not including my own stories, of course) for the Ottawa Review of Books.

The Ghost in the Casement

My short story The Ghost in the Casement"is up at Horrid Scriblings.

As an added bonus, the illustration is by my daughter, Kasia.

Review of Noah Chinn's Lost Lives

My review of Noah Chinn's lost Lives (and the rest of the triology) is up at Ottawa Review of Books. https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/lost-lives-by-noah-chinn

"Randsom and the Giant" Published

My short story, "Ransom and the Giant" has been published in Big Smoke Pulp from Pesto Comics. The anthology is an all genre all action adventure collection. As the title implies, another in my Ransom and Friends urban fantasy series.

"Ransom in the Woods" Published

My short story, "Ransom in the Woods," is out today in Neo-Opsis #36. As the title suggests, this is another in the Ransom and Friends series. And this is the first time I've shared a table of contents with Canadian national treasure, Matt Hughes, so that made my day. http://www.neo-opsis.ca/Thirty-Six.htm

Review of Valdron's Starlost Unauthorized

My review of Starlost Unauthorized and the Quest for Canadian Identity is up at the Ottawa Review of Books.

Review of Cole's Zebra Meridian

My review of Geoffrey W. Cole's Zebra Meridian is up at the Ottawa Review of Books

"Alan" Story Reprinted

My mainstream short story, "The Missing Elephant" is up today in CommuterLit. (Free to read)

It was originally published in They Have to Take You In anthology, Ursula Pflug, ed., Hidden Brook Press, 2014 and reprinted in Costal Shelf Issue #1, Nov 20, 2020.

This is an "Alan" story from my series about life in the 1960s, this one about things one did not talk about and the overwhelming power of denial.

Guest Spot on Re-Creative

I'm featured in Episode #58 of the Re-Creative Podcast.

Hosts Joe Mahoney and Mark A. Rayner invited me to come on Re-Creative, the podcast about art and writing that inspire writers. I took a long time to think about which writer or artist had had a big impact on me, but they had already talked about Den Valdron's The Mermaid's Tale and Douglas Adams, and I was debating amongst so many other possibilities (Terry Pratchett, Samual Marchbanks, Dave Duncan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Shane Koyzan, Lois McMaster Bujold, etc etc) that I just couldn't focus: until I read R. F. Kuang's Yellowface (See my text review). I could not shut up about how brilliant and relevant Yellowface is, a must-read for every aspiring writer, so that became the natural topic to propose to Mohoney and Rayner.

We also talk about a bit about my writing, editing, and breakfast.

"Weathering" Reprinted

My short story "Weathering" was reprinted in Daikaiju #19.
https://www.daikaijuzine.org/

"Weathering" originally appeared in Lamplit Underground #4, Sept 2020, pp.12-19.

Reviews of Shared World and Kyber

Reviews of Kyber by Chadwick Ginther, and Shared World by Ball, Chomichuk, Gillespie and Ginter, Ottawa Review of Books, Sept 15, 2024. Preprint in The N3F Review of Books, July 2024.

"Inuksuk" Reprinted in Best of Metastellar Year 3

My short story, "Inuksuk",has been reprinted in Best of Metastellar Year 3, September 2024, pp. 60-77.

The story originally appeared in Polar Borealis #15 (June 2020) pp 43-55 and reprinted in Metastellar, May 31, 2023.

Two Drabbles Reprinted in Siren's Call

Two of my drabbles, "Pillow Talk" and "Pepermints", have been reprinted in Siren's Call #66 Copies of the magazine are free to download at http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_Summer2024.pdf

Flash Fiction Podcast

My flash fiction "Fami's Watch" was podcast on AntipodeanSF July 14 and is available at: https://antisf.libsyn.com/ My story comes at about minute 6 (intro at minute 5) into the podcast. The story was originally published in Polar Borealis #20 (2021), and reprinted in AntipodeanSF #301 (2023).