Aaron Emmel

My story “Kor Shell Soup” is in the new anthology Grandpa’s Deep-Space Diner from JayHenge Publishing. This massive anthology contains 53 stories, and each one I’ve read so far has been impressive. “Kor Shell Soup” is a reprint of “Harnessing the Sun,” published originally in Daikaiju Zine and the topic of the interview “How to

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My story “The Park of Future Heroes” is out in the April issue of Penumbric. “The Park of Future Heroes” is an Irini story, chronologically set between “Irini” and “A Protector on the Road,” both of which appeared in Broadswords and Blasters. It’s my favorite Irini story to date. The complete list of Irini stories

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The author Todd Sullivan interviewed me for his YouTube channel about how to write alien cultures, using my story “Harnessing the Sun” as an example. Harnessing the Sun was published in Daikaiju Zine in 2020, and will be reprinted under the name “Kor Shell Soup” in Grandpa’s Deep-Space Diner, an anthology coming from JayHenge Publishing

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I have a review of the Apple TV+ series Foundation in Interstellar Flight Press. The summary: I liked some of it, just nothing that had to with the Foundation. Reviews are, in my humble opinion, one of the best writing gigs you can have, because people send you things you want for free and then

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My micro fiction story “Carpe Noctum” was published yesterday in 50-Word Stories. The hotel in the story is inspired by a real hotel in downtown Albuquerque. My best friend had discovered that the window at the end of one hallway was kept unlocked, and you could climb out through it and up onto the roof.

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