Aaron Emmel

Pairing with an elemental might save Geren’s family, but it will probably destroy him in the process. My new story, “Fire and Stone,” is out in the Fall Into Fantasy 2024 anthology from Cloaked Press. I grew up in New Mexico, and this story is set in a fantasy version of the deserts and mountains

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“A Collection for All Times” is about a spacecraft crew that collects artifacts from timelines that no longer exist. It’s the cover story of the spring 2024 issue of James Gunn’s Ad Astra. This story would have been much different if it weren’t for the editors, Jean Asselin and Jalyn Powell. I’d been writing a

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“Samantha and the Aliens” is a fun sci fi horror story about a girl who fights back against the creatures who killed her parents. It’s out in the third issue of Dark Dead Things.

My flash fiction fantasy story “The Pool of Rim” has been included in issue 4 of the Imagitopia podcast, alongside two other short-short stories: “The Greenmarket Witch” by Lorraine Schein and “Small Magics” by Juliet Kemp. They’re read by Justine Norton-Kertson, who also provides reflections at the end of the episode about some themes that

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I have a new story out in the April issue of Epic Echoes Magazine. “The Time Traveler’s Acquaintance” is (hopefully!) a fun and fast-paced story, but it’s based on the idea that we face so many existential threats these days that if time travel is possible, half the people we meet are probably here from

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