I recently attended a very enjoyable workshop on movable type. As part of the process, I had to lay out three lines to be printed the old-fashioned way. Choosing to do something original, no matter how slight, and wanting to play with punctuation, I chose this small d-mat-adjacent haiku. I think it came out rather […]
It’s been a while! But the ideas keep coming. “The Thirteenth Protocol” is a new short story set in the Twinmaker universe, due for release in the Thrill Me! anthology from Glimmer Press, April 2020. This story is loosely based on a draft I posted here a while back, called “Wolf’s Clothing”. It’s been substantially […]
The voice of Reading Rainbows (and Star Trek’s Geordie La Forge) has honoured the Twinmaker universe with a reading of “Face Value”, one of the spin-off stories featuring detecting duo Forest Sargent. Originally published in Lightspeed (here), it’s a tale of kidnapping, conspiracy and high crime in a post-scarcity world where transporters reign supreme. (Does […]
The synopsis that follows is something I wrote for my first-year creative writing students at Flinders University. It’s based on the result of a story-generation exercise (the creation of Nina Kiriki Hoffman) that uses a 20-sided dice to give you random elements (protagonist, antagonist, setting, goal, etc) that you then combine into a new story. […]