Announcing “Though Worlds Divide Us,” my AMAZING STORIES debut!
This is a busy month for me. I’ve just released the first chapter of my 5-part Guardian Angel serial on my Patreon site, and my newest and longest Analog contribution, “Aleyara’s Descent,” should be out sometime in April, as soon as the May/June issue is released. But I’ve got one more story coming out in between.
“Though Worlds Divide Us” is my first sale to Amazing Stories, debuting today, April 3, on the Amazing Stories Patreon site at https://www.patreon.com/amazingstoriesmag, accessible to subscribers at the $1 level and above. (Direct link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/though-worlds-us-80497954) The story will become available for free on their main website at https://amazingstories.com/ from April 10 onward.
This is my second story in the “Braneworlds” continuity begun in my self-published Patreon story “What Slender Threads,” involving interdimensional travel among parallel worlds that are not quite alternate Earths, inhabited by beings that are not quite humans. “Worlds” is a tight character-driven story set generations later, focusing on a proud Mars colonist who isn’t happy about the impact of easy multiverse travel.
Amazing Stories is a magazine that’s had various forms under various owners for nearly a century, making it the oldest science fiction magazine title, though its current, mostly online incarnation has only existed since 2012. I’ve made various attempts over the years to sell to one incarnation of Amazing or another, and I finally made it with this story. This is also my first “flash fiction” sale, not quite 1500 words, though my self-published story “Safe Hex” is short enough to qualify as “flash.”
It’s amusing that my shortest and longest short-fiction sales are coming out in the same month. Not only that, but “Aleyara” has had the longest interval from writing to publication for any of my non-Patreon fiction (26 years), while “Worlds” surely has the shortest (a little over 3 months). Anyway, I’m just glad to have new short fiction coming out somewhere other than my personal Patreon again. It’s been too long.
