One of my Favourite Magazines

In the latest issue of On Spec, one of my favourite speculative fiction magazines, and a publication for which I review, one of my flash fiction stories makes a debut appearance: “The Keening of the Sparrow”.

I’m rather pleased with this short, sharp, shocking story which was inspired by the Industrial Revolution child-labourers known as chimney swifts. And given the human predilection for using and abusing their own, I transplanted that concept into the future of asteroid mining. The rest I leave for you to read in Issue 125.

I share the table of contents with the following:

▪ A Fairytale for Sofie Antony Paschos

▪ Oh Exemplary Restraint, So Rare in the Modern World! R. Keelan

▪ The Chameleon Pascal Raud

▪ The Trombone, The Pianist, The Four-Wheeler, and the Zombies Carolyn Watson

▪ The Written Future A.J. Wells

▪ Alien Anthropologist A. Reid Johnson

▪ The Keening of a Sparrow Lorina Stephens

▪ Folklore Brenda Tremayne

▪ And if Venice is Sinking Fiona Moore

Also, check out this great cover by Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk & Steve Fahnestalk