K Tempest Tumbles
I have a non-Tumblr blog and that's where the majority of my long-form posts go. This blog is for my more fannish activities, link sharing, and squeeness.
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Doctor Who “stained glass” prints by Mandie Manzano
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High-speed photographs of ink mixing with water by Alberto Seveso
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Ravens! Via yukadelavega: Raven smootchies.
Source: Canislupuscorax & DeeOtter
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Meet: Kerream Jones
Although the term “Starving Artist” does not apply to the Painter, Kerream Jones, the hunger of the...
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by Priscilla.
One of the winners of this year’s James Tipree Jr. Award is: Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam
YAY
From the website:
In Ancient, Ancient, Kiini Ibura Salaam’s startling stories combine science fiction, fantasy, and mythology in a sensuous exploration of what it means to live while struggling to define self and other. Salaam’s language is poetic and sensuous — a unique and original voice. The stories are ambitious and challenging, demonstrating excellent range in both storytelling style and imagery, from the mundane to the fully fantastical. Salaam is particularly interested in agency in oppressive social realities and explores how oppression works on our gendered bodies.
You can buy the paperback and eBook versions from the Aqueduct Press website.
Every month I’ll offer up a concentrated list of favorite shorts found in magazines and (occasionally) anthologies.
Here are my picks for January:
The Advocate by Genevieve Valentine | Eclipse Online
Selkie Stories Are for Losers by Sofia Samatar | Strange Horizons
Trixie and the Pandas of Dread by Eugie Foster | Apex Magazine
Click for the rest and for links.
All the kids are doing it.
As far as fiction, my story “The Birth of Pegasus” in Dark Faith: Invocations is under 7,500 and eligible for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Nebula awards. My story “Uncertainty Principle” in Diverse Energies is over 8,000 words (I believe), so counts as a novelette for the Hugo and Nebula awards.
I would also love to see Chicks Unravel Time nominated for Best Related Work in the Hugos. That’s not just about me, but about all the really amazing contributors to the book and the editors who so wisely put it together.
And now I think let’s have some other suggestions!
Victor Hugo: Les Misérables
Reader Submission: Title and Redesign by Albert Santos.
“There is no one more beautiful than you,” Siren says.
She worships Inyanna’s body and follows the shape of muscle and bone with her hands. There is no fat on her body and Siren takes note of this too. Her fingers glide over her love’s hipbones, and she feels the muscles contract and hears Inyanna’s indrawn breath.
“There,” Inyanna says.
The shiver in her voice makes Siren smile.
“Here?” she asks.
She blows gently and watches Inyanna stretch and reach upwards.
In the moment when Inyanna reaches climax, Siren feels as if she has traced the road from Lower Ayudan to that place where the high gods dwell.
The Island People.
We called them Balanda, once. Five hundred years ago they stole our land. Two hundred years ago, they gave it back. Except for Shark Island, which they said was strategic and necessary for them to protect us from the wireminds that lived across the sea.
Ten years ago, though, when the wireminds invaded from the other direction, the Island People were helpless to stop them. All of our initiated men gathered up their explosive-tipped spears and returning EMP boomerangs and went to fight.
None of the men came back. Not my father and not my mother’s brother. I was one of the oldest children and I remember the weeping.
- Contact by Eileen Gunn I love stories where humans encounter aliens that are SO alien. This one is told from the alien’s POV and works really well.
- Winter Scheming by Brit Mandelo [TRIGGER WARNING: Domestic Violence.] What I like best about this story is that it starts out in an unexpected way given what’s really going on (which you understand at the end). Very well structured and executed.
- Immersion by Aliette de Bodard I had trouble with this one at first because one of the POVs was hard to grok, but I liked where the story went in the end.
- If The Mountain Comes by An Owomoyela Engaging meditation on scarcity and class.
- Mother of All Russiya by Melanie Rawn I’m not sure about this one. I liked he story in general, but I’m concerned about the characterization of Master Cheng. I’d be interested in discussing it with anyone who read or will read it.
- Tiger Stripes by Nghi Vo This story slowly builds up and worms into you.
- The Inconstant Moon by Alaya Dawn Johnson If you have’t read Alaya’s novel “Moonshine” and you’re into vampires or the 1920s or supernatural-inflected historical fiction, go out and get it RIGHT NOW. It’s jazz vampires! If you’ve read “Moonshone” or the sequel “Wicked City” thenyou’ll like this story, too. It’s a prequel and tells the tale of how the novel’s protagonist, Zephir Hollis, first came to NYC.
- Daddy’s Girl by Amy Sundberg I love the main character of this story like burning. She’s is so damn fierce!
O. Henry: The Gift of the Magi
Stephen King: It
Reader Submission: Title and Redesign by Aaron Miller.
Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell: Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark
SO FUCKING TRUE.
It;s the pictures that haunt me. All that damn blood and sinew…. *shudder*
