Twitterfiction
Posted on January 5, 2009
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My friend Maura mentioned selling some stories to this newish SF/F/H venue for fiction, called Thaumatrope, which publishes content Twitter-style. I don’t use Twitter myself — mainly because I can’t access it throughout the day, mobile-wise, at least not for now, and it feels like that would be the real point of Twitter.
(That may change if and when I get a smartphone, but for now, I’m overloaded enough when I sit down to my computer.)
“Stories” is one way of putting it what Thaumatrope publishes, anyway. Twitter posts can be, at most, 140 characters. If you think flash fiction is tough, try Twitterflash! Still, the challenge is interesting. The most successful stuff I’ve seen so far has been the stuff Jeremy Tolbert posts under the username #futureJer, detailing a future post-collapse vision of what I take to be the place he really lives in. (Which is to say I think it works because of the continuity buildup between his various installments in what is really a series.)
And now Jetse de Vries has just launched another Twitterzine, this one connected to his upcoming Shine anthology, and a call for submissions. He’s looking for poetry and prose poetry, though — near future, optimistic, engaged with real-world issues… aw, hell, go look at the Shine site (linked above) for more on how he defines optimistic. This is starting to make me wonder if I shouldn’t just start tracking these Twitter zines anyway, out of curiosity as much as anything.
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Recently Published Stories
- "보살들." ("The Bodhisattvas", Korean translation by Kim Chang-gyu.) In 백만 광년의 고독 (One Million Light-Years of Solitude) SOAO Workshop anthology from Omelas, December 2009. (See Forthcoming Publications, below, for English-language original.)
- "Of Melei, of Ulthar." Clarkesworld, October 2009.
- "Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues" -- podcast at Starship Sofa, read by JJ Campanella (25 March 2009). Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
- "Tian Ju Zhiao (The Teaching of the Lord of Heaven)." (Poem.) Diet Soap #3 -- Sabotage. (1 March 2009). Buy an electronic or print edition here or get a FREE PDF -- see here.
- "Cai and Her Ten Thousand Husbands." 
Apex Magazine (3 Feb. 2009). Now available in Descended From Darkness: Apex Magazine Vol. 1 edited by Jason Sizemore and Gill Ainsworth.
- "Like, Stabbed by a Love Triangle, Dude," "The Xanax King and his Wife's Painted Hoo-Has," and "Homeless Bob and Lester the Black Guy" (creative nonfiction) and "Groan" (a poem) -- Outlanders zine published by Scott Burgeson.
- "The Country of the Young." Interzone 219 (Dec. 2008). Fictionwise eMagazine edition available here.
- "Dhuluma No More," read by David Munger. Podcast by Starship Sofa. (5 November 2008.)
- "Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyongyang," available in the annual Canadian SF anthology Tesseracts Twelve, edited by Claude Lalumière.
- "Dhuluma No More." Asimov's SF October/November 2008. (Fictionwise eMagazine edition of the magazine available here.)
- "Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues." Asimov's SF, July 2008. (Fictionwise eMagazine edition available here.)- "Pahwakhe" -- Fantasy magazine, 21 January 2008. Or listen to the Podcastle Podcast here (from 2 May 2008)!
- "The Egan Thief" -- Flurb #4, Fall/Winter 2007.
- "Junk" -- Nature, Vol 448: 2 August, 2007. (PDF also available.)Forthcoming Publications
- "The Broken Pathway." (novelette.) Forthcoming in The Immersion Book of SF Vol 1, edited by Carmelo Rafala, Spring 2010.
- "Sarging Rasmussen: A Report By Organic." (novelette.) Forthcoming in SHINE Anthology, edited by Jetse de Vries, Spring 2010.- "The Bodhisattvas" (novelette). Forthcoming in Subterranean Magazine issue edited by Jonathan Strahan, April 2010.
- "Dadeumie Sori", "Ode to the Competent", and "Tian Zhu Jiao" (poems). Forthcoming in future issues of Diet Soap.
- "Improperly Prepared Blowfish" -- Machine of Death, forthcoming.
Recent Articles
- "Parasites in the Human Ecosystem." Cahoots, Summer 2009.- "SF in South Korea Today." The Shine Anthology weblog, 9 April 2009.
- "Men, Women, and Internet Trolls" -- the Winter '08 installment of my column "XY" for Cahoots Magazine, 15 Dec. 2008.
- "How Candle Girl and V Took on 2MB." Clarkesworld, October 2008.
- XY column installment: Why Are Women More Religious? at Cahoots Magazine. (Fall 2008)- "Fending Off Discontentment." The Korea Herald, 25 September 2008.
- "Another Undiscovered Country: An Analysis of the Effects of Culture on the Reception and Adoption of the Science Fiction Genre in South Korea Through The Examination of 21st Century Korean SF Cinema." (Alt. link for those without Hangeul on their PCs.) Presented at the 4th International Congress of Korean Studies.
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- "Planet Crazy" in Cahoots Magazine, Spring 2008.Grab Some Music
Korean indie rock with lost saxophone in tow:
- Product by Dabang Band (2004)
- Pig Over Seoul by Dabang Band (2002)Live acoustic/electronic ambient chillout:
- Live 1998 by ApocryphaCrusty, weird modern classical student compositions: - an assortment of compositions I wrote as an undergrad from 1995-1996.
If you're one of those people who is into owning the physical CD, Dabang Band's 2nd album, Product:
... is still available via YesAsia. I won't see a
centwon either way, but it's a pretty nice, ahem, product.-
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