How well do you really know your loved one? What happens when personality surveys meet interstellar travel?
“Please fill out this form regarding your loved one” explores those questions and is out today in Nature: Futures!
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction
There are so many wonderful stories listed in this round-up of Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for July 2022 from Tor.com, including my own story, One More Fairy Tale.
You can find that story, and so many others, in Cossmass Infinities!
One More Fairy Tale
My tale of sound, stories, and motherly love, “One More Fairy Tale,” is now out in Cossmass Infinities.
You can purchase the issue here: https://www.cossmass.com/issue/9/
Once upon a time, I was fitted with hearing aids after a year of silence. I still remember when the aids were turned on — like a baseball bat whacking sounds against my brain, painfully, repeatedly.
Once upon a time, I was a deaf girl in a hearing school, dreaming of slipping through walls into other worlds without sound.
Once upon a time, I became a mother and wanted to give my children the world.
I put all those tales together to form “One More Fairy Tale.”
To Boldly Go…
My little tale of a destructi-droid, “To Boldly Go,” is now featured in Stupefying Stories!
Destructi-droids were activated when first contact didn’t go well, yet Destroyer-1 still waited…
Read more in Stupefying Stories!
https://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2022/06/to-boldly-go-by-carol-scheina.html
Stay Tuned …
Two stories will be coming out this July:
One More Fairy Tale, in Cossmass Infinities
A tale of motherhood and sound and different worlds. A very personal story for me, and it means so much to be able to share it with the world.
The Moon Spider, in Bards and Sages Quarterly
I had a lot of fun crafting this tale of spiders and an angry moon.
Also, The Hole in the Storm was recently accepted by Daily Science Fiction and will be appearing in that publication sometime in the future!
All the Little Changes
“Marielle’s school portrait changes on the first anniversary of her death…”
Read more of All the Little Changes in The Arcanist.
Into the Underworld
“Things You Carry in the Underworld” — a little story about family, friendship, and loss — is now available to read in Issue 2 of the gorgeous Tree and Stone Magazine!
You can find it here: https://www.tree-and-stone.com/
And do check out the other stories because there are some absolutely amazing tales in this issue!
Trains, Love, and Loss
When you lose someone, sometimes you get stuck going nowhere. My story, “The Difficulty of Disembarking,” now in Stupefying Stories, explores love and loss, all on a train.
You can read it here:
stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-difficulty-of-disembarking-by-carol.html
The Disappearing Cat Trick
Tanya’s parents refused to let her get a cat.
No matter how many times Tanya argued that the planet’s environment was fully approved for cats, or that cats had already made their home among the rocks and dust and blue bamboo plants of Odin III, they wouldn’t budge.
Read more in my short story, “The Disappearing Cat Trick,” part of the Odin Chronicles and now appearing in Page and Spine Magazine!
Two New Stories to Share!
It’s been a busy month, and I have two stories to share:
“With a Palette of Rock and Magma,” in Factor Four Magazine.
The planet couldn’t suppress the shiver of excitement rippling over its surface when a transport landed in a ring of fire and smoke. Its first visitors! How air-light their steps, so miniscule and fragile.
Click here to read more.
There’s also my story, “A Dance in the Dying Light,” now out in the Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter. Three mining spaceships must try and escape the supernova of a dying star… but can they make it?
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Carol Scheina 