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“Raindrops in Indra’s Net” in Droplets from the Universe

| July 25, 2023

My story “Raindrops in Indra’s Net” was one that took a lot of revision to get just right. It always had a climate change, post-apocalyptic setting and piloted mini-mechas for traversing difficult terrain, but a lot of the details within that world were tweaked several times as I wrote and revised the story. In the […]

Some Post-Apocalyptic Tales

| May 18, 2023

I have two post-apocalyptic novellas: Barren and Scenes from a Quiet Apocalypse. The former is an apocalypse that hit within the main character’s lifetime, but as an older protagonist, she’s lived in a post-apocalyptic world for longer than she spent in the pre-apocalyptic world. The latter is an immediately recent apocalypse, one that hits just […]