Welcome to Spec * Recs, a source to discover new reads and more! Find out what past Speculative 66 contributors are up to. @brifrischu Website: brifrischu can bring down the world in 50 words or less in the tiny dystopias: https://www.wattpad.com/story/97620524-tiny-dystopias Renee Christopher Poem: MOST MAGIC COMES SECONDHAND Renee wanted to highlight different forms of knowing, and how women (particularly black women) communicate with each other. Dolly Garland Short Stories: The Runaway Warrior, Fight Like A Girl Anthology The Ancestors, Dark Half of the Year Anthology Kristin Garth
Sonnets: Pudding Man, Sex Doll, and First Demon in Quail Bell Magazine Poetry: The Advocate in Fourth and Sycamore Moxy and The Gray Cat in Moonchild Magazine Butter in Digging Through The Fat Lionhearted and On Formal Slavery (To a Nation of Free Verse) in The Society of Classical Poets, will be published in October. Forthcoming: My Beast and Basement Forest will be published in Deracine in December. Wiser Hands Around My Throat will be published in Infernal Ink April of 2018.
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Welcome to Spec * Recs, a source to discover new reads and more! Find out what past Speculative 66 contributors are up to. Caleb Echterling Flash: Best Seat in the House This story is an elaborate set-up for a terrible, terrible joke. The author laughed out loud when he wrote it. Skipping Stones on the River Styx Caleb swears that this story is the last one he will write where "someone not wearing pants" is a major plot device. Lora Rivera Flash CNF: Diagnostics Short Story: Certain Unboxable Things Fairy Tale Retelling: The Song of Rosalynd Stiltskin Vaughan Stanger
Vaughan Stanger, who has had stories published in issues 1, 5 & 7 of Speculative 66, has a new short story collection available at Amazon, Smashwords and other popular online stores. Reeves Indeed! collects all of Vaughan’s ‘Reeves’ all-dialogue flash SF pieces, which depict the misadventures of a robot butler and his master in a series of ever more bizarre episodes. Four of the stories have been published previously, although not in an ebook format. The fifth, ‘Speak for Yourself’, was written specially for this collection and concludes the series. Reeves Indeed! can be pre-ordered ($0.99 +sales tax) at https://www.amazon.com/Reeves-Indeed-Vaughan-Stanger-ebook/dp/B0759D5RKK/ orhttps://www.smashwords.com/books/view/745909 (amongst others). The release date for this ebook is 2 October, but it is available to pre-order now. Vaughan’s other SF collections, Moondust Memories and Sons of the Earth, can also be found on Amazon, Smashwords, etc. Welcome to Spec * Recs, a source to discover new reads and more! Find out what past Speculative 66 contributors are up to. Maria L. Berg Flash & Short Stories: When To Report A Co-worker theeveningtheatre.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/when-to-report-a-co-worker-by-maria-l-berg/ Your New BAM-AG Home fictionalpairings.com/2017/05/09/narrative-mckenzies-new-boyfriend-music-recover/ McKenzie’s New Boyfriend fictionalpairings.com/2017/03/08/narrative-your-new-bam-ag-home-music-desterrado/ Art: www.redbubble.com/people/marialberg Website/Blog: MBer Creations is a place for sharing inspiration and creative ideas. www.mbercreations.com/ Experience Writing (experiencewriting.com/) is an excellent resource for both readers and writers. It's full of guest posts, interviews and book reviews. You can reach Maria at [email protected]. Bob Conklin Short Stories: Pink Carnations www.unlikelystories.org/05/conklin0705.shtml The Outlet unbrokenjournal.com/2017/07/the-outlet-by-bob-conklin/ Claudia Gary Poetry: Paintbox therotarydial.ca/coffee-table/2016/10/31/from-the-november-issue Single-Poet Issue: The Canadian online journal "The Rotary Dial" devoted its third annual single-poet issue to Claudia Gary's work in November 2016. The PDF is free to download and enjoy: static1.squarespace.com/static/50b10fc7e4b01c11f0ede365/t/5817f9fb725e2564c2cdfc19/1477966334406/November16.pdf Rhys Hughes Novel: Cloud Farming in Wales www.snugglybooks.co.uk/cloud-farming-in-wales Short Story Collection of fantastical love stories: Salty Kiss Island www.immanion-press.com/info/book.asp?id=504&referer=Hp Stephen Oram A collection of 30 sci-fi shorts designed to provoke speculative debate about the future: Nudge the Future (Vol. 1): Eating Robots and Other Stories stephenoram.net/eatingrobots/ Ian Steadman Short Story: Three school friends find their lives are changed forever following a hike up The Hill at Wetherton... storgy.com/2017/08/11/fiction-the-hill-at-wetherton-by-ian-steadman/ Bill Wetzel
Short Stories: Two people deal with the struggles of their siblings. As viewers, we see two different viewpoints in in how they portray these relationships in Brothers. spiralorb.net/twelve/wetzel Casual Friends — for S. W and E are casual friends. At first sight, E flipped W on W’s head. W thinks E is the most beautiful letter in the alphabet. waxwingmag.org/archive/07/writing.php?item=340 In Wrong Number the author takes a real life circumstance and bizarrely twists it into a "what if" scenario. www.literaryorphans.org/playdb/wrong-number-by-bill-wetzel-2/ |
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