Hello! Happy New Year!
I hope this year finds all of you healthy and well. I’m sitting with a cup of cold coffee in a non-wintery and spring-y Greece – it’s 19°C degrees currently— contemplating the passage of time. I think time is one of those concepts that are indescribable when it comes to how everyone experiences them. Some days feel like months. Sometimes, full years feel like a brief moment. A blink of the eye and they’re gone. And there’s also this alternate dimension that we’ve all fallen into where 2020 was last year. Well.
All this to say, that I was very lucky to publish some pieces last year, both short stories and poems. I have no idea when this happened, how I’m starting from this very same chair another spin around the sun all over again, but I’m grateful and I’m ready.
Here are the two short stories I published last year in two wonderful venues:
- “Money Thirst” in Radon Journal. A contract gone wrong, as all things do when you make deals with corporations.
- “The Bodytakers” in Heartlines Spec. A story about huge tortoises with forests on their carapace, found family and taking a leap of faith.
And here are all the poems that are eligible for the Rhysling Award:
- “Cosmic Melody”, in Utopia Science Fiction, October/November 2023
- “CyberBerry”, in THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM, by Tenebrous Press, in November 2023
- “Photosynthesis”, Star*Line, Issue 46.4, Fall 2023
- “Waterbird”, in Solarpunk Magazine, Issue 11-Solarpunk Fantasy, September/October 2023
- “Lunar Maria”, in Haven Speculative, Issue 9, June 2023
- “mycocosmos”, in Eye to the Telescope, Issue 48, Fungi, edited by Avra Margariti, April 2023,
- “Greenhouse”, in Utopia Science Fiction, February/March 2023
- “the time-traveler’s daughter”and “Polar plateau, in Star*Line, Issue 46.2, Spring 2023
- “the flavour of being part of”, in A Compendium of Enigmatic Species, from Practical Fantasists, edited by Karin Murray-Bergquist, Erin Scothorn and Mary Thaler, February 2023
- “Periselene”, in Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology, edited by Justine Norton-Kertson, January 2023
- “Sisterhood Rites”, in Dangerous Waters: Deadly Women of the Sea, from Brigids Gate Press, edited by Julia C. Lewis, January 2023
- “A record of last letters”, in Star*Line, Issue 46.1, Winter 2023