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ksmithThat's how fast January is flitting by.
I have a new short story out in the latest issue of Boundary Shock Quarterly. Every issue has a different theme—for this issue, it's "First Contact," with alien life of whatever sort. The story is entitled "It's Not the Face," and it involves a couple of characters I've been writing about in serial short story format for the last few years. Their names are Del and Gia and they were once R&D test pilots in the 12th Expeditionary Corps, evaluating experimental long-haul spacecraft. Then their lives took a turn and they've been in trouble ever since.
This is the 5th story I've written in this world (6th if you include a sidebar story that appeared in the ZNB Anthology Solar Flare). I have a few more in mind, and then a novel to wrap it all up.
I've been having fun with this world and these characters while at the same time learning that I can write short. It used to be a struggle to keep the story from spinning off into a novel or, if I was lucky, a novella, but over the last few years the shorter form seems to be working.
It's good to learn new things.
I have a new short story out in the latest issue of Boundary Shock Quarterly. Every issue has a different theme—for this issue, it's "First Contact," with alien life of whatever sort. The story is entitled "It's Not the Face," and it involves a couple of characters I've been writing about in serial short story format for the last few years. Their names are Del and Gia and they were once R&D test pilots in the 12th Expeditionary Corps, evaluating experimental long-haul spacecraft. Then their lives took a turn and they've been in trouble ever since.
This is the 5th story I've written in this world (6th if you include a sidebar story that appeared in the ZNB Anthology Solar Flare). I have a few more in mind, and then a novel to wrap it all up.
I've been having fun with this world and these characters while at the same time learning that I can write short. It used to be a struggle to keep the story from spinning off into a novel or, if I was lucky, a novella, but over the last few years the shorter form seems to be working.
It's good to learn new things.
