The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America announced the start of its nominations period for the Nebula Awards yesterday, so it’s time for me to do what all the cool kids are doing — remind members of the fiction I published last year.

It was a light year for me, with only two stories seeing print — both of which are under 7,500 words, and therefore eligible in the Short Story category.

And they are —

“The Stranded Time Traveler Embraces the Inevitable”

I’m extremely pleased to be part of If This Goes On, an anthology assembled by Cat Rambo for Parvus Press as a form of resistance against “a world shaped by nationalism, isolationism, and a growing divide between the haves and have nots.” Writing this particular piece helped break me from a period of writer’s block brought on by the results of the 2016 election, and I can think of no better place for it to have appeared.

If you’d rather listen to me read it than read it yourself, check out this video recorded at last year’s Readercon.

“Five Years Later”

“Five Years Later” appeared in the Harlan Ellison tribute anthology The Unquiet Dreamer, edited by Preston Grassman and launched by PS Publishing at the World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin.

While the anthology is a tribute to Ellison, as is the story, the story was not written to ape his style, or attempt to channel the man. Rather, it’s one which I hope would not have seemed out of place in Dangerous Visions.

And that’s it for 2019! As for 2020, I already have four science fiction and horror short stories slated to come out in magazines and anthologies, and I look forward to letting you know about them as they appear.

If you’re a voting member of SFWA and would like to receive copies of either of the stories mentioned above, send me an mail.

Thanks for your consideration!