This month, my story “The History Within Us” was posted at Clarkesworld Magazine.  A few days ago, they also released a podcast read by the amazing Kate Baker.  In this post on my blog I describe how the story came to be.  You can read the story here.  And you can listen to the podcast [...]

You can vote now for your favorite stories in Interzone in 2009. My story, “Saving Diego,” was published in issue #221. Also of note are “Home Again,” by Paul Berger and “Far and Deep” by Alaya Dawn Johnson, both in the same issue. I also liked “After Everything Woke Up” by Rudy Rucker for its [...]

I recently got word of two new publications, each with a story of mine within. Shimmer’s Clockwork Jungle Book just came out, featuring twenty steampunk animal fables, though my story, “The Emperor’s Gift”, is more clockpunk, I suppose. Also in the issue are Jay Lake, Genevieve Valentine, Amal El-Mohtar, and more. The issue is available [...]

My story “The Girl in the Basement” is now up at Apex Magazine. It’s alongside stories by the talented Ekaterina Sedia and Keffy R.M. Kehrli (both of whom appear in past issues of Sybil’s Garage). Here’s an intro: “The girl lived in the basement where the air was cool and damp and quiet. Company was [...]

My fantasy short story “Non-Zero Probabilities” is up in this month’s Clarkesworld Magazine. I’ve been tempted to call this my “Urban Fantasy Triptych”, together with “The You Train” and “Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, In The City Beneath the Still Waters” (forthcoming from Postscripts), since the first two are based on my life here in [...]

My story, “The Spaces Between Things,” which is in the current issue (17/18) of Electric Velocipede, is up for viewing online. “David was in love with his aunt Masha. In the months after his father died, she came over for dinner often. While she ate, he’d watch her chest rise and fall, and for long, [...]

My very brief (< 140 characters) prose poem is now up at Jetse de Vries’ Outshine Twitter ‘zine.  Go read it. It’s very short.

Kris Dikeman’s “Nine Sundays in a Row,” has made the top ten list for the storySouth Million Writers Award. Congratulations, Kris! Voting is now open for the best story of the year.  Go there and vote now (for Kris)!

If you’re a fan of Sybil’s Garage you may have noticed that the names of Altered Fluid members tend to crop up in association with the zine. That’s because most of us, at one time or another, have done duty in the editorial department and/or contributed non-fiction. It’s the secret way SG gets to be [...]

Over at Fantasy Magazine, I review the Red Dwarf special, “Back to Earth.” Check it out.