Blog Entries from MumblingSage

  1. Charity Story for Haiti relief efforts

    While at best this would be self-publishing, I'm posting it here to alert potential readers of the interesting brainchild of the Crossed Genres editing staff: "In the wake of the disastrous earthquake that has decimated Haiti, we wanted to do something to encourage people to donate to the massive relief efforts that are underway. So we started Post A Story For Haiti. Below are links to a number of short stories. Their authors have posted these stories online to read, for free. You can...
  2. The Future Fire

    My short story "Drown or Die" has been accepted into The Future Fire, one of my favorite webzines of all time! They had to drown this planet. Drown it or die. They needed more oxygen, and for that they needed plants, Earth plants. And Earth’s plants needed water. And water was poisonous to Diana’s ecosystem, but so what? So what if your iron garden dies, Sharon? It’s the future of the human race. As the desert planet of Diana is terraformed to support an increasing number of...
  3. "Sorceress of Avalo" reprinted in Sorcerous Signals

    "The Sorceress of Avalo" has reappeared, this time in the Nov-Jan '10 issue of Sorcerous Signals. And with cover art! Editor Carol Hightshoe's summary: Every few years, the priests of Ilnar send a warrior to the Sorceress of Avalo to have her read the omens—however, the sorceress demands an unusual price for her services. The artwork is by Lee Kuruganti. All stories in Sorcerous Signals also appear in the print magazine, Mystic Signals, so you can also find "Sorceress" in Mystic...
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  4. All About Eve anthology

    My short story "How the Woman Brought Death" will be one of the 17 stories in the new anthology All About Eve from Wolfsinger Publications. In this retelling, the sin that resulted in the first woman (and man) being cast from the Garden was not giving in to temptation, but resisting it--and fighting back. The woman quickly realizes that nothing good can come out of violence, but can she convince the rest of the rapidly growing human family of the truth?
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  5. Untied Shoelaces of the Mind

    My flash piece "Dragon Snot and Chosen Ones" has been accepted at the new flash webzine Untied Shoelaces of the Mind. This epic tale of dragon slayers, dragons, dragon snot (it bursts into flames on contact with the air), and Fate mixes juvenile humor with a cutting examination of the assumptions many fantasy epics are based on. What's up with that title, Chosen One, anyways? Printer-friendly version here. Amber Stults selected Dragon Snot and Chosen Ones as her Story of the Month...
  6. AnthologyBuilder Contest Winner

    "The Beacon and the Keeper" placed first in the Rising Stars category of AnthologyBuilder's match-that-artwork contest. It is available as of 12/7/09. The villagers at the base of the Kardanions knew that they lived at the feet of the tallest mountains in Knedra. It was a matter of some pride to them. Yet the winters and the storms that struck in the foothills of the Kardanions were wretched; they couldn’t imagine anyone living any higher than themselves. When the light first appeared...
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  7. Every Day Fiction

    My piece "Ameran Theatre" has been accepted for publication in the daily flash magazine Every Day Fiction (December 5, 2009). In Ameran theatre, each actor picks a single role and plays it all his life. There are few scripts, and none of them are complete—that would be limiting.
  8. Some Updates

    "The Gallows Wife" will appear in Semaphore Magazine's 2009 anthology. Also, my story "The Beacon and the Keeper" is a finalist in the Rising Stars Division (for writers 18 and younger) in the AnthologyBuilder Match-That-Artwork contest. Exciting times!
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  9. "Goldenseed" on AnthologyBuilder

    "Goldenseed" is now available on the POD anthology-building website.
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  10. Another one at Every Day Poets

    "Worshipping at the Feet of the Old Colossus" to Every Day Poets.
  11. Silver Blade

    "In the Mirror" to Silver Blade fantasy magazine. A land on the brink of ruin sends an ambassador to consult Adriel NaAdeen and her magical Mirror. But the Mirror, and Adriel, have their own secrets...
  12. Semaphore Magazine

    "The Gallows Wife" is in Semaphore Magazine's September issue. Rosemarie wanted to escape her betrothal to the uncouth Lord Rhoven--but she never expected the consequences of her midnight foray to the gallows square. For one thing, she never expected to fall in love... (Both "Gallows Wife" and "Reila's Machine" have summaries that end with people falling in love. Go figure. On the one hand, I suppose I'm a creature of habit--but on the other, I never wrote much romance before. I still...
  13. M-BRANE LGBT Anthology--Things We Are Not

    "Reila's Machine" to the M-BRANE SF magazine's anthology of LGBT science fiction stories titled Things We Are Not. October 15, 2009; pre-orders available starting 9/28. In the lands ruled by the Sky Cities, humans are forbidden to build flying machines. But Eresbet, a vagabond and small-time thief, stumbles right into the middle of high treason when she hides from the law at Reila Klaes' homestead, where the mechanic is completing her greatest experiment. And that's not all, because...
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  14. Every Day Fiction

    "Firebringer" to Every Day Fiction (July 25, 2009). A retelling of the myth of Prometheus.
  15. Reprints at Anthology Builder

    The Void Test, The Wayab's Tower, The Wall, and Fortune Cookie are all available now on AnthologyBuilder.
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