Category: short story
If you’re looking for a short story, here are some by me and other folks who have either contributed to the site or whose works are public domain. Some of these two will be short story prompts.
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Cold Brewed 001 — Hard Water
As Mark 9 and I thought through the best way to share the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print, we realized the tiniest fraction of this audience saw it live online when we released it in our early twenties. We decided to re-release it serially online, since it doesn’t format well for e-readers outside of…
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Schaubert’s Laws of Fantasy Religions
Author’s Note: this post on fantasy religions was originally drafted for a handful of local writing friends with a more thorough catalogue. That piece was lost and due to some life circumstances, I rushed out this much less thorough piece for those friends assuming (wrongly) it would not circulate widely. I realize there’s a lot…
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Gabriel Kellman Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — Thanks for joining us, Gabriel Kellman. How’d you get into speculative fiction? Gabriel Kellman — Well, I was a vividly imaginative kid, so I spent a large chunk of my childhood with my brain in other universes. I also read a lot as a kid, and most of it was fantasy or sci-fi, so…
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Anthony Cirilla Interview
A Dialog Between Editor Lancelot Schaubert and Three-Time Contributor to OF GODS AND GLOBES, Dr. Anthony Cirilla : * * * Ed. Lancelot Schaubert: So this Of Gods and Globes series isn’t astrology, or isn’t supposed to be, so what the heck are we doing here — enough for a third volume? Dr. Anthony Cirilla: As…
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Transitions Between Scenes in a Novel
One of the big things I’ve had to work hard at fixing, both in nonfiction and fiction, is transitions. Treehouses, you see— Wait. Let me explain. Transitions between scenes: the problem. Most transitions when I’m thinking or writing happen internally for me. They happen very quickly and I tend to get frustrated because they take…
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The Things We Carry
The Things We Carry is a novelette set in the Vale Megacosm. The full version is available here for subscribers or the ebook can be purchased here for folks that don’t want a subscription quite yet. A brief sample is available below for all. For mom. And Ashley “There are only two stories: a strange…
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What Scifi short stories are free on Gutenberg?
As I continued my quest for free short stories and the best really short stories online, I stumbled across many Scifi short stories that are free on Gutenberg. So what Scifi short stories are free on Gutenberg? These, at least (let me know in the comments if you find more and I’ll add to the…
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Free short stories : where do I find sites for short stories and essays?
Where do I go to find sites for short stories and essays? Free short stories are pretty easy to find on Gutenberg, but the truth is that sometimes you need a curated list rather than just a single search term wading through the public domain sludge. I’ve got you. Here’s the list of the best…
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The best really short stories
Talking through the Robert Sheckley stories made me ponder what the best really short stories might be. They’d need to be the sorts of things you could read in under 15 minutes, preferably in under 10. It would also be skewed towards what I myself have read, which admittedly is significantly less than some of…
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Grantville Gazette IV edited by Eric Flint
This review will be short and sweet. I ordered Granville Gazette IV at the prompting of Kerryn and Bjorn Hasseler because of a story I was working on spec for the new 1632 magazine. I think the thing I want to say is that sometimes anthologies like this never quite find their true audience because…
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Can Wattpad read to you?
Some of you have landed here asking can Wattpad read to you? Yes, but don’t use Speechify. Here’s why: Speechify is impoverishing audiobook narrators, stealing their voices, and using artificial intelligence software to turn works by creators (often without the consent of the creators) into full-blown audiobooks. The audiobook narrator that would have been hired…
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Alfred Bester and The Light Fantastic
In working through Robert Silverberg’s Science Fiction 101 (a compilation of essential Silver-era speculative fiction and analysis of how to write it), I came across The Light Fantastic by Alfred Bester in the bibliography. When I talk about silver era, I mean the post-Baron Edward John Moreton Draw Plunkett Lord Dunsany, post-H.G. Wells, pre-Nebula Award…