Machine of Death, which opens with my story “Flaming Marshmallow and Other Deaths,” will be kickin’ it Canada style this weekend at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo. Editors Ryan North & David Malki ! will be on hand to sign books and crack jokes.
You can still read “Flaming Marshmallow” online, or listen to it in audio at Escape Pod or the MoD audio feed.
In the latest news from Machine Of Death, “Flaming Marshmallow,” a story which first appeared in PUSH OF THE SKY and in audio at Escape Pod, is in audio . . . again!
From the MoD site:
I’m so freaking excited I can hardly stand it.
Tomorrow. Tomorrow is my birthday, the birthday. The birthday everybody waits and waits for and until you get there you just hate that all your old friends already got theirs and you’re the only one without it yet, and sometimes you think holy-freaking-eff, I’m never going to turn sixteen, but then you do.
This is what I’ve been waiting for all these months. All these years, I guess, though before my friends started getting theirs, it didn’t seem like such a big deal. We were all No-Knows then.
Tomorrow, I’m finally going to feel like I belong.
Tomorrow, I’m going to find out how I die.
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Reader Colleen AF Venable is a designer, author, and girl who laughs till things come out of her nose. During the day, she designs graphic novels for First Second Books and at night, she writes graphic novels about a not-so-imaginary-anymore hyperactive hamster named Hamisher. The world is a very lovely place.
In the book, “FLAMING MARSHMALLOW” is illustrated by Shannon Wheeler of Too Much Coffee Man!
Her flesh is pink and healthy. Her muscles bunch and contract beneath mine. Her lungs fill with air and her heart beats. Each night I lie my allotted minutes beside her, content to listen to the sound of her breathing, to watch the quiver of her breasts as her chest rises and falls. In all these ways she’s alive, though her mind is the dead vacant emptiness of a hive creature of Antholos System. . .
My short story “Sarah 87” receives a star on Tangent Online’s 2010 Recommended Reading list. This story first appeared in issue #11 of Murky Depths, still available at the site.
Huge thanks to Tangent and to Nathan Goldman for the mention.
My short story “Over a Narrow Sea” has gone live at Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine:
This is how I choose to remember it….
The night was a rousing success. I swept down the main staircase just before the twelfth hour’s first strike on the great hall clock as my uncle proposed his toast to the infamous Warlord of Mekk and twelve hundred other guests. I’d dressed as my uncle ordered—in my best gown with its torturous collar digging into my neck, the tight-laced boots which hid my deformity, and that inane sash dangling from my left shoulder announcing my agecoming and my position as heir to the House of Toth. If I wore also a sharp knife strapped to my thigh and the glitter of rebellion in my eyes, well…there were no such orders for those. Those were all mine. . . .
Zandra Renwick 