I was waiting for the lineup to be announced on the website, typically timid, but hey, a little hype can’t hurt, and since a few others have announced their stories’ acceptances, I figure maybe it’s kosher, especially since I’m excited! I am happy to have sold a story to the very unique and bizarrely wonderful anthology Machine of Death, which is based on about the weirdest anthology concept I’ve come across in a while: The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to …

“Dyscrasia” is a little medical-horror zombie story I wrote explicitly for Postcards from Hell, a unique and cool fiction publisher experimenting with postcard stories, actually sent on postcards. Shortly after the end of the submission period, Postcards from Hell bought my story. The postcard went out in Fall 2007 (arriving in my mailbox in Korea on the 5th of September), and as a bonus, it was illustrated by my multitalented Clarion West classmate and friend, Tina Connolly! UPDATE: You can see the story, and Tina’s illustration, online here. UPDATE (Oct 28 2012): Tina Connolly also podcast a wonderful narration of …

“Junk” is available to read for free, among my Stuff to Read pages. Go here to see it. My second fiction sale, “Junk” is online (at least for subscribers or anyone in a library) in the “Futures” fiction feature column in Nature. I’d originally drafted it for the “Futures” series that ran to the end of 2006, but never got around to submitting it to Henry Gee in time. Happily, it was turned down by the place I’d shuffled it off to, and in the interim, the good folks at Nature had decided to relaunch the column. When I heard …