Ephemera Published in The Nettle Tree

The Nettle Tree, an anthology which includes my short story, Ephemera, is now available.

Several months ago, I was invited to submit to The Nettle Tree. The editors, Kenneth Weene and Clayton Bye were looking for strangely different stories with a western flavor.

Truth be told, at first, I didn’t think I could do it. Me? Writing a western story of any kind, of all things? There was no way. Still, a tiny sliver of an idea sparked and prickled at the back of my mind for weeks. I finally came up with this “westerny” sort of science fiction story titled Ephemera.

Ephemera is a story about grave diggers leading the charge to re-colonize an alien frontier.

Sound familiar? I hope not!

I’ll let you in on a funny little secret. Ephemera was somewhat inspired by one of my much older pieces of flash fiction, this little flashfic titled Becoming.

I had always wanted to maybe expand on the concept of Becoming. Ephemera was my chance to do that. I wound up with a completely different story than what I originally had in mind but I love how Ephemera turned out and I hope you will too.

In the coming weeks, I will be giving away a limited number of copies of The Nettle Tree to Patrons (via Patreon). I will make an announcement on this blog and on Patreon when the giveaway starts.

Get a Copy

Buy at Amazon.com | Buy from Publisher | Follow Me on Patreon

The post Ephemera Published in The Nettle Tree appeared first on TONYA R MOORE.