Pete has spent his life trying to find his way back to the timeline of his childhood. “The Best of All Possible Worlds” is a flash fiction story in the inaugural issue of Half-Light Press.

I have a new story, “Cat Mountain,” in the fourth issue of The Vanishing Point Magazine. It’s about hiking, relationships and mortality.

From the promotional copy: “This issue goes to some dark places, both literal and metaphorical. It’s packed to the brim with ten brand-new tales by ten fantastic writers. This issue is full of haunts and aliens and bleak futures and glimpses of the afterlife. It’s all here where the lines of reality and imagination intersect, at the Vanishing Point.”

My story “Taming the Land” is in the 103rd issue of Fireside Magazine. It’s about the sacrifices made by an unusual group of settlers when they terraform a Venus-like planet—and the new opportunities those bring.

It was a privilege to work with Fireside. They provided thoughtful edits and gave me multiple opportunities to look over the final product. That makes it even more disappointing that this will be the influential magazine’s final issue. They’re accepting support for ongoing maintenance costs.

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 Write Alien Cultures.”