Category: fiction
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Odd Prompts: Beware the Pink
“How was it?” Having a seven-foot-tall octopoid hovering while you ate was a bit weird. Having him wringing a pair of tentacles while he watched you consume food he’d prepared was a whole other level of strange. Steven didn’t think he’d ever get used to this. He put his spoon down, and contemplated his bowl…
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Steam-Powered Postcards
While I am away from home this weekend, I’d love to send you a postcard. You can ask for an image in a comment here, or drop a line to me at cedarlila at gmail dot com, and I’ll send you a postcard! Then you can write a 50-word story about the picture, and submit…
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It’s going to be soon
But Not Broken is now available in ebook and paperback! An Angel’s Love Nicki Kenyon Awareness Ray Krawczyk Memories of the Abyss Cedar Sanderson Sometimes You Get What You Need Richard Cartwright Forward from the Past Becky Jones Requiem David Bock Domestic Disturbance Mary Hoerr Baba Yaga Fiona Grey Moments of Madness Kat Stevens The…
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Call for Stories: But Not Broken
Just a reminder that there is a month remaining in the open submission period for stories in this anthology. But Not Broken will be the second of the PTSD anthologies, taking up where Can’t Go Home Again left off. You can read more details about the ideas behind the anthology here, in my first call…
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Chloe Snippet: House of the Bulls
Since I didn’t write for the prompt last week, here’s a snip of the WIP. Feedback is welcome. I’m still figuring out what I’m doing with this story. *** The bus stop wasn’t at the cemetery entrance, of course. Who would need to come and go to the city of the dead inside the greater…
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Blasters and Blades
In the run-up to publishing the anthology, Blasters and Blades was kind enough to interview Christopher DiNote and Me (h/t Ted for correcting my pre-coffee grammar) about our stories, the anthology idea, and our personal backgrounds in SFF as well as military connections (mine: MiL brat, spouse of former infantryman. Chris: active duty USAF Col.…
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Guest Post: A Space for Storytellers
Leigh and I did a post swap – you can find my post over at StarshipCat, on maps and fiction. Wander on over and say hi! at least, and enjoy the twin essays (we didn’t talk topics or anything before doing this, which was fun). Also, Leigh has a plethora of stories on the…
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New Release: Supernatural Streets
Hot Electrons! Get them while they’re still smoking! Supernatural Streets is finally out! There will be a lot of good reading in this one for you. 14 Urban Fantasy Authors, some of them names you will recognize…. And one of my Amaya Lombard tales, picking up where I left off with Possum…
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Cover Reveal! The Violet Mouse
This story was born of conversations in molecular bio labs, and human relationships, and knowing how much friendship can mean. It’s science fiction, bleeding edge… it’s hard to stay ahead of the science these days. Wildest imagination finds it difficult to stretch past where we are in reality. If I can’t keep ahead of…
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Decommissioned
Yesterday was Science Fiction Day, according to the calendar in my lab. In honor of that, I wrote a bit of a story for my blog readers. Happy Science Fiction Day! May the horizons of humanity grow ever larger. “…decommissioning.” The earbud hissed, then cut out. Jack was already rolling out of bed. He’d…
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Weird and Wonderful
So my friend John Bouler is to blame for this bit of flash fiction. He commented about a vet who specialized in large animals, and cryptids. This thing sprang into my head and demanded to be written. Since I am supposed to be cooking up a storm for Thanksgiving, I am leaving this here…
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Flash Fiction: Ghillie
I was listening to a song, and suddenly I had an urge to write. The song was Saboton’s Camouflage, and this snippet of flash fiction was what fell out of my head today. Ghillie The mud stank. Private Jonah Staedler buried his face in it anyway. Overhead, the deadly whine of bullets snapped past his…