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Holding Sway
They were up in the gardens, ready to monetise the sunset. Poppy and Jay. The sky had the mood-light quality of an underwear shoot: soft, suntanned, both oiled and diffuse. Poppy wore a sheer, nude, diaphanous, faintly flowing number, not m...
Short Story in Dialogue, III
“Not gonna lie Alfred Nobel actually had a really good immortality hack. Like he just goes, I’m so sad I invented dynamite and became impossibly rich—I know, as a penance I’ll set up prizes in my name which’ll ineffaceably tie every world-h...
Taking Your Daughter to the Furry Convention
Philip did, he’d admit, feel an all-suffusing wonder while holding hands with a 59-inch-tall bipedal wolf. She skipped along so gaily. So eager, so young, so pleased. His daughter Sasha was bright, brighter than he’d been and soon to be bri...
Elizabeth Audureau, The Art of Fiction No. 86
This interview was conducted on a Monday morning in the summer of 1985, at Audureau’s home near the Royal Air Force base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England. The house is a sort of provincial, British variant on the Farnsworth House by Mi...
One year of short stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald was paid $3,000 per short story (c. $50,000 in 2025). I’m committed to keeping all of my short stories 100% free on Substack. They will go behind a paywall after a few months; if you want to read the older ones, do take...
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