“What Good Fathers Do” Accepted for Publication in Bullet Points

Some very exciting news I’ve sat on for a couple weeks: my military sci-fi flash fic “What Good Fathers Do” has been accepted for publication in Bullet Points, a military spec-fic magazine!

Map of the Eleutherian League in 3461, just before the events of “What Good Fathers Do”

For Captain Zamile Kani, the mission is simple: escort transports loaded with thousands of soldiers, civilian contractors, and their families (including his own) to reinforce the fleet base at Desolation. But when he arrives to find the base destroyed and a swarm of enemy missile boats bearing down on his convoy, Zamile must reckon with his failures as a father…and what it means to be a better one.

Some readers may remember “What Good Fathers Do” has been accepted before, in Sour Spaghetti and Other Stories which was to be published by Paperm!nd Press. Alas, the publisher cancelled the anthology in late 2023, and I’ve been searching for somewhere else the story could call home ever since. There’ve been a lot of rejections (and an Honorable Mention from Writers of the Future) over the last year and a half or so, but the search is finally over!

I’m especially happy I’ll finally be able to show off the Eleutherian League. Their world is one I built a few years back, but since there aren’t many mil sci-fi short fiction markets, most of my stories there are novels, all of which are still in their earliest stages. A finished work out in the wild makes this setting feel so much more real!

We still have a long way to go towards publication–I don’t have any sort of detailed timeline, but we’re probably looking at months–but it makes for exciting times, nonetheless. Keep an eye on this blog and I’ll let you know more as soon as I learn more!