Spark and Tether was an accident. There are periods of my life that I think of as the Big Shifts—spans of months or a year where everything changed whether I liked it or not. The second half of 2021 was Read more
I Just Can’t Quit Them! Back in 2010, I created a character who kind of took over my brain. It all started with a seemingly innocent question posed in an online group I belonged to. I wrote a short Read more
A Playlist for The Wasteland Kings by Jaimie N. Schock I have selected ten songs to listen to while reading my queer sci-fi book The Wasteland Kings. They are in order of events in the novel, starting with the moment Read more
Anatomy of a Fight – Vesta versus Everyone Bigger than Her The premise: How can a fit but petite woman fight in a realistic and successful way? The answer: With good planning. In the following excerpt, we see our Read more
Writing “Boy in the Band”J.Scott Coatsworth “Boy in the Band,” one of the five stories in the “Love & Limitations” anthology, has its own special history. I initially wrote it as a suicide attempt by gun – trigger warnings Read more
What inspired you to write this particular story? As a father, I’m amazed that there are any humans alive at all in the world. When people are toddlers, they seem more than happy to end their own existence with Read more