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Some time ago - probably several years by now - elisem posted a thread of shinies on Twitter that had not had stories or poems associated with them. My brain snagged on several of the pieces, though I have long since lost the thread and thus have not returned to any of the other ideas, but I wrote a piece based on the necklace "From or Belonging to the Spring People".

I then shared it with elisem and started submitting it places.

Eight submissions later, according to the Grinder, it has found a home at Underland Arcana.

(I did not make a cryptic nonpost about this acceptance, apparently.)

This is a story about fairies intruding into human spaces in a slice-of-lifey sort of outsider perspective way, their political struggles, and a museum curator who has to deal with the fallout.

Archive of the Odd #2: A Supernatural History is out (it claims preorders at the moment on the page but I think it's actually out out) and contains my story "Seventh Page of the Heartwell Gazette".

What secrets and mysteries can be found plumbing the back pages of a small town newspaper?

My story and its illustration (by Alina Wahab) have led to attempts to form the portmanteau term "horrdorable" or similar linguistic mashups.


(In unrelated news I think I have finally kicked the conjunctivitis sufficiently that I have washed the sheets. Ugh, conjunctivitis.)

Today's episode of Escape Pod has "A Dragon In Two Parts", which I just described elsewhere as transhumanist wish-fulfillment scifi for furries, trans people, and disabled people.

That's four publications this year, I think: three stories and one poem.

My story "Drain on Society" will be appearing in We Cryptids, which is now available for preorder.

This shall serve as the promised update to this cryptic nonpost.

"Drain on Society" is about disability and social support.

Also vampires.