Tenebrous Press included my flash fiction piece, "Got Your Nose" (Pseudopod) in their shortlist for their Brave New Weird 2022 award. Truly an unexpected surprise for me, but I'm honored to share the shortlist with so many accomplished and talented authors. I have to admit that "Brave New Weird Nominated author" has a nice ring to it. Final decisions will be made public by 12/1/2022, so here's hoping I make their table of contents! ...
As I'd mentioned in a previous post, I've been participating in Clarion West's Write-A-Thon. As a part of that, I also joined their writing challenge to finish a flash fiction story every week based off writing prompts. I've now completed three flash fiction pieces, and hope to complete three more before the Write-A-Thon's complete. One of the last prompts was a list of words, where "axolotl" was included. This immediately brought to mind the supremely weird Julio Cortázar short story, Axolotl which I then used as an inspiration. I'm pleased with what I came up with and can't wait to revise it and get it ready to submit. After reading my story recently, a friend reminded me about the Blood Sea of Istar (from the Dragonlance Chronicles I'd talked about on Podside Picnic and on my follow-up post). It was a weird moment for me, realizing how this area of Krynn...