My 2020 Story Publications
I feel like I haven’t published a lot of stories this year, but then I put together a post like this, and I realize I’m incorrect in that assessment. 2020 has seemed so long that some of the stories that came out in January and February feel like they were released a lifetime ago. But no, it was just the beginning of this incredibly strange year.
All told, it looks like I had sixteen new stories out in 2020. The majority of them were fantasy stories, but there’s a bit of sci-fi that snuck in there this year too. A few of them were for younger readers, and a couple of them were humorous pieces for kids of all ages.
This is just the roundup of my newly published 2020 short stories/flash fiction. Books and poetry will be their own posts in the coming weeks!
- “Muss,” Witches, Warriors, and Wyverns (January 2020).
- “Superstitions,” Theme of Absence (January 2020).
- “Follow My Lead,” Truancy Magazine (January 2020).
- “Dakota Travis, Saurallero Extraordinaire,” Intrinsick (February 2020).
- “Just Add Holy Water,” Death’s Sting: Where Art Thou? (February 2020).
- “Fire Bad,” Page & Spine (March 2020).
- “Swift Vengeance,” New Myths (March 2020).
- “The Sky Rock,” podcast at The Centropic Oracle (April 2020).
- “Senchado in Microgravity,” Utopia Science Fiction (April 2020)
- “Charcoals from an Unidentified Chicago Artist,” Community of Magic Pens (May 2020).
- “For the Weird Girls Who Want to be Mermaids,” Orca: A Literary Magazine (July 2020).
- “Memorandum from the Panel for the Identification of Consequentially Chosen Youth (PICCY),” Page & Spine (July 2020).
- “The Dark Forest Takes,” Wyldblood (August 2020).
- “Nectar Shortage,” From the Farther Trees (August 2020).
- “Green-Eyed Phantom,” Whigmaleeries & Wives’ Tales (September 2020).
- “At What Cost,” House of ZOLO Journal of Speculative Literature, volume 2 (October 2020).
So that’s four anthology stories (some of which were contracted last year) and twelve pieces in magazines. For the most part, I had short stories in anthologies and flash fiction in magazines, but “Charcoals from an Unidentified Chicago Artist” is a shorter piece, and “At What Cost” is a longer story.
I also released six new stories in my self-published collections this year. There were a couple of Cobalt/Cerulean City stories, a mermaid-adjacent story, and three fantastical history stories that hadn’t been picked up elsewhere, along with the previously published stories alongside them.
I also had three stories reprinted or podcast this year, all flash fiction. I’ve got a couple more stories that may sneak out this year, but more likely, they’ll be out early in 2021. I’m pretty pleased to have seen this many stories out in a year that has been a difficult one to navigate for authors and publishers!
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