This weekend I’m in lovely Washington, just outside Seattle at the Norwescon SF&F convention. I’ll be taking part in several panel discussions with worthy colleagues in the field. Come say hello.
The air in this part of the country is stunningly delicious.
In a delightfully accurate description of “His Sweet Truffle of a Girl,” the Japanese translation of FUNGI calls my piece “A sad story of a man on a mushroom submarine for a purpose.” Title translation: “Girl of Sweet Truffle.”
Very happy to think of this story out in the world, doing its truffly thing.
Telling a complete story in exactly 50 words is a challenge, but too much fun to resist. Somehow my crime dribble “Killer Details” turned out more slapstick than my usual. Suppose I should call it a win when my characters are more likely to end up in jail than six feet under.
Read “Killer Details” today at 50-Word Stories. Love the editor’s tags on this story: “assassin, funny, oh dear, unexpected...”
Her ceramic arm and hand and articulated fingers gleam unadulterated ivory, whiter than the snow outside already melting as it falls. . .
Some buzz has already been generating about the forthcoming 49th Parallels anthology from super-local (Yay, Ottawa!) independent publisher Bundoran Press, which the Toronto Metro describes as “an anthology around what would have happened if the country took a very different turn.” I’m happy to say my post-pandemic Vancouver story “As Mistress Wishes” will be joining the excellent lineup of these Canada-askew tales.
This one re-imagines the downtown Vancouver peninsula as a sort of steam-powered walled matriarchal city state, its society a product of the previous generation’s fierce battles over resources splitting along a strict gender divide, a world with little appreciation for nuance or inclusivity.
Mistress’s voice soothes something deep in my chest, past the industrial ceramic ribcage of my refashioning, a restless twitch in the meat muscle of my canine heart…
And of course it’s told from the dog’s perspective. Because DOGS.
More info as it materializes.
Zandra Renwick 