Edited May 12th: Bed of Starlight has been removed. You can find it in the collection Nothing But Seaweed & Other Stories coming May 29th, 2015.

Bed of Starlight has just been published, a fantasy short story of about 1700 words with an M/F pairing.

I texted my sister a while back, asking her to “give me a magical item.” She wrote back “magical ladder” and thus I wrote this story on that prompt. It’s probably obvious in the story or at least it would be once you read this.

Next Saturday, June 14th: An Indomitable Fire (fantasy, short story, m/f) – An unquenchable burn within their nerves.

This next story will feature the two characters, Bradd and Cerci, from Thawing Out and Water Play. Also, I’ll be publishing on Saturday instead of Sunday because I won’t be able to publish on Sunday.

Edited May 12th, 2015: Under the Black Stars has been removed. You can find it in the collection Nothing But Seaweed & Other Stories coming May 29th, 2015.

Under the Black Stars has been published. It is a short story of about 3200 words with a sort of M/F pairing.

I wrote this story a few years ago for a specific call. I wanted to make it more erotic, but that would have been against the mag’s guidelines. Instead, I culled the story down to make the word count and didn’t write everything exactly how I would have.

(Which is an argument against writing to calls/mags. Writing to market is a good skill to cultivate, but it does have its downsides when it comes to potentially ruining what a story would/should have been.)

Stumbled across it a few months ago and decided to give it a little uplift. Went through and did some re-writing, no longer feeling I couldn’t have as strong of an erotic element.

It’s not exactly romantic as many of my other stories are, but I don’t think the original idea really leaned toward anything seriously romantic.

Next Sunday, June 8th: Bed of Starlight (fantasy, short story, m/f) – Their love transcends space.

Edited May 12th, 2015: Nothing But Seaweed has been removed. You can find it in the collection Nothing But Seaweed & Other Stories coming May 29th, 2015.

Nothing But Seaweed has been published, a fantasy short story of about 3400 words featuring a M/F pair.

This particular story actually sat for a long time with only the WIP title at the top: Seafoam Cavalry. No notes, no characters, not even a first line. I would open the document every once in a while and fumble through a sentence or two. Then I’d usually delete it and move to something else. Then, for another long period of time I had a paragraph sitting there that was supposed to help start the story and only served to stagnate it even more.

The biggest problem was that I was trying to write the story in a more here-and-now style and voice that was losing the majesty of the idea. I didn’t want to get into the gritty details. I didn’t want to explain away everything. I just wanted to evoke a particular set of emotions.

When I realized that, I was finally able to get this story written.

Next Sunday, June 1st: Under the Black Stars (fantasy, short story, m/f) – They spend their deaths reaping the evil in their hearts.