Thursday, January 8, 2026

Top 25 Short Stories Read in 2025

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I read 101 short stories this year. This is my annual list of what I thought were the 25 best of those reads – all  highly recommended gems....
Thursday, December 18, 2025

"Crossing" in the anthology Professor Feiff's Trans-Dimensional Travelogue, Meanjin's Closure and the Heinous Shooting at Bondi

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I had written this celebratory post, along with the bit on the Meanjin  closure, before the heinous event in Bondi occurred.  I decided that...
Friday, July 25, 2025

"Lady Killer" reprinted in Masque & Maelström Volume 1: The Reluctant Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe. ed. Jessica Augustsson

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It's a chill and a thrill to have 'Lady Killer'—originally published in the Aurealis Award winning anthology Bloodlines Ed. Aman...
Friday, April 4, 2025

"The Tic-Toc Boy of Constantinople" reprinted in the anthology The Apparatus Almanac Ed. Jessica Augustsson; bit on a Goodreads Dilemma, and other writers on stories

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  "The Tic-Toc Boy of Constantinople"in  The Apparatus Almanac: Gizmology and Technomancy Ed. Jessica Augustsson  It's always...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Books Read 2024

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A Spindle Splintered  by Alix E. Harrow (novella) All the Light We Cannot See  by Anthony Doerr A Special Providence  by Richard Yates The S...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Top 25 Short Story Reads of 2024

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This is my annual list of favourite short stories read over the year. It's the usual unapologetic mix of spec-fic and realism, along wit...