My Writing Projects (Part 1: Short Fiction)

Since this is a new blog for me, I'm going to do some recap posts. Hopefully these will help me to refocus on my writing while they introduce who happens to be reading. This post will cover short fiction that I've written or am currently writing.

I don't write a lot of stand-alone short stories at the moment. One of the reasons for that is that I DO write a serial story every month, and this takes up a fair amount of my creative headspace, at least as far as short fiction goes.

My serial fiction is published online (and available to read for free) at The Edge of Propinquity (www.edgeofpropinquity.net). The Edge of Propinquity is an urban fantasy/horror webzine edited and published by Jennifer Brozek, who's been a tremendous help to me in my fledgling writing career. I've written two Serials for The Edge of Propinquity. The first was called "Luminations", a series of "geek noir" detective stories with some supernatural elements to them. It ran for four years and featured a different narrator each year. It concluded at the end of 2009. I am currently halfway through a new one-year serial called "Four Visitors", which delves into UFOs, conspiracy theory, and psychic powers as a town receives a succession of mysterious visitors who are fighting a secret battle against the forces of oppression.

I've also had a couple of stand-alone short stories published. My first sale was to Three Crow Press, the ezine of Morrigan Books. My Story, "The Warlord of Rhode Island", was an online tie-in to Morrigan's Grants Pass anthology, a collection of post-apocalyptic stories.

Most recently, my horror story "Roadkill" was published in Close Encounters of the Urban Kind, a collections of alien encounter/urban myth mashups from Apex Books.

I currently have an invitation to write for an upcoming anthology. I've also got a couple of other short story ideas kicking around, plus the remaining six installments of "Four Visitors" to finish up. Ideally I'd like to get "Four Visitors" completely finished before it's time to head back to work. The anthology has an august deadline, so I need to get that story put together. I'd also like to try to get a couple other stories written to start that whole rejection-letter-collection process from sending out unsolicited manuscripts that I've been missing out on.