Living the Fictional Dream

It’s a new day, so you must be looking for more short fiction to read, right?

First off, a little anticipation. Every Day Fiction recently released it’s table of contents for July, and I’m very excited by the story that will be appearing on July 12th — “The Only Thing Left to Do” by my friend J.P. Tioga. I critted this piece for her, and it’s a great bit of flash. I know you’ll all enjoy it!

While I was at EDF this morning, I read today’s story of the day, “Recipe.” It’s an interesting sci-fi piece. I like stories that show the fantastic and speculative as a mundane, daily event. But the kicker for me with this story was that the main character was deaf. What some might call his disability, turns out to be exactly what he needed in this sci-fi situation. There isn’t enough short fiction out there exploring such different points of view.

When perusing the blog-0-sphere, I discovered that writing group mate, Stephanie, has a new story out. It’s called “Misty,” it’s live at M-Brane SF. It looks like you have to purchase or subscribe to read this one in electronic format. “Misty” is another story that I helped critique during the writing process, and it’s an interesting and quirky take on a sci-fi idea that you might have seen done before, but never like this.

Finally, I had the chance yesterday afternoon to read more of 10Flash’s inaugural issue. I haven’t been able to read all the stories as of yet, but I did get to some of them, and it really is a great issue. Some of the stories that I really enjoyed (in addition to Alex and Gay’s that I linked yesterday) were “A Small Dark Room” by Jordan Lapp, “The Dangers of Kafka in Cairo” by Megan Arkenberg, and “In the Basement” by D.J. Barber.