“Where has the summer gone” sounds so cliché, but that doesn’t lessen how true that statement feels this particular year. Already, students are preparing to return to school, the leaves in the deciduous trees are starting to turn, and birds are gathering in anticipation of a voyage south.
Recent Publications
Poetry:
“Cats
Of the Future” and “Unexpected,” Utopia Science Fiction,
August/September 2022, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page/august-september-2022
“The Cycle Repeats,” Scifaikuest
August 2022 online, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest-online
“En Vacances in Quebec City” and “Watching Softball,” Paddler
Press, Vol. 5, Summer Fare, August 2022, https://paddlerpress.ca/?post_type=product&p=504&preview=true
[if an
infinite number] and “New York, New Reality,” Scifaikuest August 2022
print, Hiraeth Publishing, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-august-2022-edited-by-t-santitoro
“Now You’re Gone,” “Without Her,” and “To The Robin,
Building a Nest in My Eavestrough,” Samjoko, Summer 2022, https://www.samjokomagazine.com/nowyouregone-lisatimpf
In August, a review of In Days to Come, my speculative poetry collection, was posted on The Future Fire web site: http://reviews.futurefire.net/2022/08/timpf-in-days-to-come.html#more
Reviews:
A Life Spent Listening, by Hassan Khalili, published on the Miramichi Reader site August 28, 2022,
https://miramichireader.ca/2022/08/a-life-spent-listening-by-hassan-khalili/
The Messy Lives of Book People, by Phaedra Patrick,
published on the Miramichi Reader site August
31, 2022, https://miramichireader.ca/2022/08/the-messy-lives-of-book-people-by-phaedra-patrick/
Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, edited by Andrew Chesham and Laura Farina, published on The Miramichi Reader site August 20, 2022, https://miramichireader.ca/2022/08/resonance-essays-on-the-craft-and-life-of-writing-edited-by-andrew-chesham-and-laura-farina/
State of Terror by Hilary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny, published on the Miramichi Reader site August 2, 2022, https://miramichireader.ca/2022/08/state-of-terror-by-hillary-rodham-clinton-and-louise-penny/
Short Stories:
“The
Chienchat Conundrum,” published as a reprint in Professor Feiff's Compleat Pocket Guide to Xenobiology for the Galactic
Traveller, JayHenge Publishing, https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0B97YTX6X
What I’m Working On
In August, I got back to working on short stories, while continuing to
chip away at my book review to-do list. I’m expecting much the same trend will
continue in September, as I have developed a few story ideas in response to
submission calls for speculative fiction stories.
