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New Science Fiction from Chad Gayle: “The Long Hauler’s Garage”

Chad's science fiction story "The Long Hauler's Garage" is now free to read at Inner Worlds (Issue 2).

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The Ugly Emotional Truth at the Heart of My Novel Let It Be

A few months after the publication of my novel Let It Be, which is about a family that is falling apart, I was interviewed for an article that appeared in the May 12, 2013 edition of the Amarillo Globe News (Let It Be is set predominantly in Amarillo, Texas). I claimed in this interview that […]

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New Story in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine: “It’s A Big Ask, This Thing Called Love”

Chad’s story “It’s A Big Ask, This Thing Called Love” is in the newest issue of Andromeda Spaceways Magazine (Issue 92).

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AI Could Make Review-Bombing at Goodreads a Lot Worse

Something much worse than review-bombing is about to happen at Goodreads, and no one at the site is doing anything to prevent it.

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Remembering 9/11: The Memorials in Union Square

A personal remembrance of the improvised memorials arrayed in and around Union Square in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks.

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Chad’s Story “The Trouble with AI-Nine” Reprinted in Dark Horses Magazine

I’m pleased to announce that a story of mine originally published in Perihelion Science Fiction, “The Trouble with AI-Nine,” has been reprinted in the September 2023 issue of Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction. I wrote “The Trouble with AI-Nine” the day after I finished Where America Ends, my second attempt at crafting a […]

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How the Bee Gees Made Me a Beatles Fan / Fanatic

How could a child born to musically indifferent parents who was raised in the scruffy backwoods of east Texas become a fan of The Beatles? The Bee Gees, that's how.

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Hello, Google

I created my first website—Short Fiction Critiques—in 1997, while I was working for Poetry Magazine in Chicago. Short Fiction Critiques was my first attempt to create an online community, and in addition to offering an online workshopping environment for writers from around the country (a pretty novel idea at the time), the site included custom […]

Free to Read: Where the Shadow Falls [Science Fiction]

My post-apocalyptic science fiction piece Where the Shadow Falls (published in 2021) is now free to read at The Colored Lens.

Although this short story is set in a future low-tech world ravaged by a pandemic, it's a pre-Covid tale that was drafted in 2017.

Enjoy!

Chad Gayle