As you carefully consider what to nominate for awards this year, there are so many wonderful works to choose from. I’d be honored if you thought of me. Here are my award-eligible contributions for 2024.
Short Stories
“MARGINALIA” in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-Six
Winner of the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll
Messy, frantic footsteps ran toward the cottage. “Margery!” Her brother’s voice cracked in the middle of her name. “Margery! Margery!”
She dropped the handle of the pot she’d been about to lift and ran to the door. “Hugh?”
As she opened the door, the ten-year-old ran around the pig pen and darted into the farmyard directly in front of the house. The goose hissed at him, wings flapping in agitation. Hugh paid it no heed, skidding to a halt in front of Margery.
He held his cap clenched in one fist. “There’s a snail coming through the forest.”
Margery’s blood went cold as if a shadow had passed over the cottage. “How big?”
“Bigger than John Farmer’s prize bull.”
Also eligible in this category:
“Rude Litterbox Space,” The Sunday Morning Transport, March 3, 2024
“In the Moon’s House,” Reactor Magazine, July 17, 2024
“Infinite Branches,” The Sunday Morning Transport, November 24, 2024
“Deep Space Has the Beat,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, November/December 2024
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WRITING EXCUSES PODCAST, SEASON 19
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