It’s time once again for the end-of-year list posted early in case anyone wants to cheat off of it for their own end-of-year lists. Another very productive year! I had ten short stories come out in 2019:
“Knit Three, Save Four” in the November 2019 Fantasy & Science Fiction — Mouth is a space bum knitting her way between the moons of Jupiter when she finds herself stowed away on a cargo ship full of problems. Can her knitting save the day? (This story made the first page of the Nebula reading list!)
“Electric Tea” in A Punk Rock Future 10/19 Tsui is an art school grad sliding toward failure in near-future Tremont where a new creativity-enhancing product has hit the market.
“Loitering With Mathematical Intent” in DreamForge 5/19 – a mathematician in a post-capitalism world finding meaning in her work.
“Politeness Costs Nothing” in Daily Science Fiction – an AI tries to pass on what it has learned about manners. Violently.
“South of the Waffle House” in Do Not Go Quietly May, 2019. What if your friend was a space alien? Would he understand the anxieties of having a parent who doesn’t have citizenship status?
“The Problem from Jamaica Plain” in Diabolical Plots Year Five anthology. A lawyer is called about a murder… or an abandoned child… it’s not clear which.
“Free Wifi” in Parvus Press anthology “If This Goes On” Imagine a future with no net neutrality and no free public education? Scary!
“Celeste and Bobby Fisher” in Daily Science Fiction, February 28, 2019. Just pure robot chess-player snark. On my birthday!
“A Place to Stand On” is in the January/February 2019 Analog. Hortensia hasn’t trusted anyone else with her safety since her mother failed to secure her tie-line while rock climbing as a teen. Now she’s on a floating platform in the atmosphere of Venus, and it’s sinking. Reviewed at Reviews and Robots. “…a great character piece” Anlab Reader’s Choice Finalist!
“Tactical Infantry Bot 37 Dreams of Trochees” in the January/Feburary 2019 F&SF . The infantry robots haven’t had their software patched in years, and they’re growing peculiar. Some collect images. Bot 37 collects interesting words. While war rages around her, she learns to write poetry.
In addition, I had nine poems published in 2019:
“Football on Mars” is in the Autumn Illumen magazine (guess what that’s about!)
“Choose Your Own Advent”, “Puzzle Box”, “St. Sebastian” and “Life in Front of Counters” all on Lite Lit One.
“On the Blackrock Road” in Dreams & Nightmares May 2019
“My Killer Robot” in Illumen in April 2019
“To Klaatu” in Geek Out! Queer Pop Lit Art & Ideas
“We Carry” in Analog March 2019 (In hell, we carry the things we wasted.) Anlab reader’s choice finalist!
If it’s available online, it’s linked by its title… If you would like a copy of anything on this list for reading, let me know!
