Dikaiosis of the Endmembers

Not getting into the reasons why, but the Victorian-era AU was shelved two days after I started with the intensive writing. To try and recuperate, I’m going to be very quiet about what I’m doing, and hope it doesn’t set off any mousetraps upon my eternally-twitching tail.

So now I’m working on a story about a robot uprising in modern day rural USA. There is a homeless person who makes his beds out of crushed candy boxes from the dumpster outside the local cinema. There are superpowers belonging to the elderly. There might be a carnival coming to town soon.

Of course, should a carnival trundle on into this certain town, they’ll be trundling right on out again before they can even set up anything, but I foresee evil evil robots trying to break into the captive tiger cages, and the tigers going Sheer-Khan on the whole lot of them.

But still. This is all hush-hush, so ssssshhhhhh. Just between us, okay? Okay.

I’ve been going through the fiction section at the COSMOS Magazine website, trying to see what sort of stuff they buy for the web, what sort of stuff they buy for the magazine.

Honestly, most of the stories selected don’t hold my attention at all. Too dense, or maybe they’re just not what I’m in the mood for today. But the few I managed to get through to the end, I figured I’d link here for posterity. Recs for published stuff, as it were.

The Noise Machine by V.G. Kemerer
The victims bore lifelike tattoos of clawed dragons. With human eyes.

Fuel by Matthew S. Rotundo
The third quarter report cards came out on Thursday, and for Jamie, the timing couldn’t have been worse. The Nike man was coming over that night to sell his brother some new blood.

Dogs of War by Bruce Carlson
A dog walks into a bar. He’s here to conquer humanity…

The Dead Man’s Child by Jay Lake
As her father’s star-polished bones rattle in their grave-drawer, Marguerite resolves to track him down.

Remade by Charles Stross
Who said that death has to signal the end? It may just be an opportunity.

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I have a deadline in five days so. Yeah. I’ll go get on that.