My short story "The Darken Loop" appears in the January 2009 issue of Jupiter SF which was released today. It is the second story involving the 3 members of the Axiom Few, and is a prequel to my earlier story The Ceres Configuration, which was published in Jupiter issue 4. Click here to purchase your copy, or subscribe.
I woke up early this morning on my 50th birthday. It was as bright outside as it would ever be at 5am due to it being the summer solstice, the longest period of daylight time. From here on, the nights get longer. Sitting in bed with a cup of tea I started to think about some of the first stories I wrote, and a few memories came back to me. The first thing I remember writing was in my penultimate year in primary school, so we're talking 1983-4. Successfully combining two major phobias of mine, it was called "Tarantursnake" and took up a whopping four pages of my English workbook. I remember getting a decent mark for it, but the only thing I could remember from the story itself was a man hanging on for dear life to a pole suspended over a pit of tarantursnakes. In fact, that may have been the whole thing. I'm not so sure it followed any conventional rules of narrative. Later, in 1987, in high school, a collection of us smuggled copies of the newly published paperback of
Just sold one to these guys myself. Nice little mag.
ReplyDeleteAlso interested reading your views on YWO 5000. Quite a different viewpoint to most of the things I've seen written on this subject. Rather refreshing :-)
Thanks for your comments Kate, and well done for getting your story into Jupiter.
ReplyDeleteAre you one of the 5000 too?
No, not me. My unpublished novels are unpublished for a reason - they weren't good enough :-)
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Enjoed 'Darken Loop'. I do like trying to come up with new ways of avoiding (or creating) pardoxes!
ReplyDeleteThanks Gareth. Yes, you have to tread carefully with time-travel stories. It's always fun to try to make them as water-tight as you can. I'm not sure whether that entirely possible though.
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