Cover art for “Far Futures: Book Four”
My short story “Awash on Titan’s Shores” has been accepted into this anthology. Marketing won’t officially start until October for publication in December.
I haven’t even started editing the story with the publisher yet. All I’ll say is the anthology requires the story be set on or around Saturn’s moon Titan and military SciFi was acceptable.
Here’s a little taste:
Cover art for “Over Still Waters” (2022)
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What am I supposed to say about Ben Serna-Grey’s very short book Over Still Waters? It was an impulse buy which I discovered when going over the recent publications of Starry Eyed Press (which has published a number of my short stories and novelettes).
Although I have it on my Kindle Fire, a paper version would contain only 48 pages, so I breezed through it last night before bed.
It tells the tale of Jaine, a music composer living in the Puget Sound area (interestingly enough, my daughter graduated from the University of Puget Sound). The story is set in the 22nd century and a century before, an event written in her family history occurred, one which involved the appearance of massive alien structures in the nearby waters. The aliens came, stayed for a while, and left.
Jaine was pregnant when she and her husband got into a car accident. Her husband was killed and she lost her unborn child. Events pick up sometime later as she has fallen into inactivity and apathy, no longer caring for the world or even her music.
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Landon knew the boat was magic the minute he saw it. The 10-year-old boy and his 4 1/2-year-old sister Dani were vacationing with their Dad and his latest girlfriend at a beach house in California.
“C’mon, Dani. Let’s have an adventure.” He took his sister’s hand and helped her follow him into the boat.
“What about, Landon?” She looked up at him quizzically.
He stood dramatically facing forward. “Our spaceship to Mars is taking off!”
Imagination abruptly became reality as the magical boat and its tiny passengers rocketed out of Earth’s atmosphere.
This is the third and final piece of flash fiction in my series, inspired by photos at KayllistisQuill.com. The first story is The Prayer followed by Over the Edge.
I had a little fun putting my grandchildren in this one, even though I had to age them about three years.
I allowed myself a maximum of 100 words, and this story came in at a mere 91.
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