{"id":1328,"date":"2015-06-15T08:05:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T20:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/?page_id=1328"},"modified":"2015-10-10T11:02:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T22:02:48","slug":"short-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/short-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got so much happening now in short stories that I needed to give them their own page. My novels are <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/my-books\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(All Amazon links from this page, and the ones to fictionmagazines.com, earn me affiliate commissions above and beyond my usual author share. At the &#8220;direct from the author&#8221; links, you pay the same amount but I get more of it. So if you want to give me maximum support, this is the place to start.)<\/p>\n<h2>Published<\/h2>\n<div>\n<h3>Good Neighbours and Other Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00OAJUE2G\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00OAJUE2G&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=grypcler-20&amp;linkId=7KGIOVY246JG4HRU\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1040\" src=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/Good-Neighbours-cover-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"Good Neighbours cover\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/Good-Neighbours-cover-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/Good-Neighbours-cover.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a>This is my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hdwpbooks.com\/words.php?id=good_neighbours\" target=\"_blank\">solo collection from HDWP Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not every story has to be an adventure. Not every hero has to be young, or noble, or mighty. When you don\u2019t have a Chosen One, anyone\u2019s story can be important.<\/p>\n<p>In these twelve stories, we meet a little old lady, several government clerks, a smelly shaman \u2014 and the religious scholar who befriends him \u2014 an oppressed servant, a man whose business is to help his neighbours help each other, and even someone whose only distinction is an unusual name. Every one of them finds a way to be a hero.<\/p>\n<p>You can get <em>Good Neighbours<\/em> here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Good-Neighbours-Other-Stories-Reeves-McMillan-ebook\/dp\/B00OAJUE2G\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/good-neighbours-other-stories\" target=\"_blank\">Kobo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/good-neighbours-other-stories-mike-reeves-mcmillan\/1120512752?ean=2940150690035\" target=\"_blank\">Nook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>THEME-THOLOGY: INVASION<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/InvasionRev2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"InvasionRev2\" src=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/InvasionRev2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>This anthology features my story &#8220;Not Like Us&#8221;, which deals with the botched invasion of the beasthead lands that&#8217;s depicted in\u00a0<em>Realmgolds<\/em>, from the point of view of one of the beastheads.<\/p>\n<p>You can get\u00a0<em>Theme-Thology: Invasion<\/em>\u00a0here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00FG1DF9Q\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00FG1DF9Q&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=grypcler-20\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0for Kindle<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/theme-thology-charles-barouch\/1117003742?ean=2940148774648\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> for Nook<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/theme-thology-invasion\">Kobo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>(The story is republished in <em>Good Neighbours and Other Stories<\/em>.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Theme-Thology: New Myths<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/NewMyths_cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-957\" src=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/NewMyths_cover-200x300.png\" alt=\"NewMyths_cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/NewMyths_cover-200x300.png 200w, http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/NewMyths_cover.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>This anthology features my story &#8220;Where Is Your Breath?&#8221;, a tale of a smelly shaman and a pious Asterist scholar and their unlikely friendship. It doesn&#8217;t, as yet, relate to any specific bit of continuity in the Gryphon Clerks novels, but it takes place in the same world.<\/p>\n<p>You can get <em>Theme-Thology: New Myths<\/em> here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00J8XQ5MM\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00J8XQ5MM&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=grypcler-20\">Amazon<\/a> for Kindle<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/theme-thology-martin-spernau\/1118970371\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> for Nook<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/theme-thology-new-myths\">Kobo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>(The story is republished in <em>Good Neighbours and Other Stories<\/em>.)<\/div>\n<h3>Theme-Thology: Real World Unreal<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00LU2KLL0\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00LU2KLL0&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=grypcler-20&amp;linkId=NYZ4JJWWN2XJ7GBL\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1428\" src=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/theme_thology_real_world_unreal_200x300.jpg\" alt=\"theme_thology_real_world_unreal_200x300\" width=\"170\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a>This anthology features &#8220;Weave&#8221;, in which a mysterious event interrupts a routine shopping trip to my local mall.<\/p>\n<p>You can get Theme-Thology: Real World Unreal here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00LU2KLL0\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00LU2KLL0&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=grypcler-20&amp;linkId=NYZ4JJWWN2XJ7GBL\">Amazon<\/a> for Kindle<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/theme-thology-david-grigg\/1119966214?ean=2940149739493\" target=\"_blank\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> for Nook<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-US\/ebook\/theme-thology-real-world-unreal\">Kobo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(The story is republished in <em>Good Neighbours and Other Stories<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<h3>The Sockdolager<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdolager.net\/spring-2015\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1241 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/download-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sockdolager\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/download-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/download.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>My short story &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdolager.net\/spring-2015\/wearing-the-hat\" target=\"_blank\">Wearing the Hat<\/a>&#8221; appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdolager.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sockdolager<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Spring\u00a02015. It features a Denninger shopkeeper (in the Gryphon Clerks setting, but off to the side from the main events) who is forced into a difficult choice.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s essentially a Western, in a slightly steampunked secondary-world fantasy setting.<\/p>\n<p>The Fall 2015 issue of The Sockdolager includes my story &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdolager.net\/fall-2015\/lockandkey\">Lock and Key<\/a>,&#8221; in which a clever\u00a0alchemist in an Arabian-Nights setting solves several murders and thwarts the assassination of the sultan.<\/p>\n<h3>Alternate Hilarities 3: Hysterical Realms<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00VXPITF4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00VXPITF4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=grypcler-20&amp;linkId=IW4BQREZ2T6J54X6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1225 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/unnamed-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hysterical Realms\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/unnamed-191x300.jpg 191w, http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/files\/unnamed.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>This anthology of funny fantasy from Strange Musings Press\u00a0includes my story &#8220;Axe Stone: Svart Detective,&#8221; a noir tale set in a mashup of a sword-and-sorcery city and the 1930s New York of Damon Runyon, complete with Runyonese narration from the eponymous dwarf detective.<\/p>\n<p>You can get <em>Hysterical Realms<\/em> here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00VXPITF4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00VXPITF4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=grypcler-20&amp;linkId=IW4BQREZ2T6J54X6\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>New Realm Vol. 02 No. 03 (December 2013)<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fictionmagazines.com\/shop\/realm-issues\/new-realm-vol-02-no-03\/?refer=2410\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"New Realm Vol 02 No 03 December 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fictionmagazines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NewRealmVol02No03-562x749.jpg\" alt=\"New Realm magazine\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a>My short story &#8220;Good Neighbours&#8221; appears in this volume of\u00a0<em>New Realm<\/em>, the fantasy title of fictionmagazines.com.<\/p>\n<p>Set just after Gnome Day, it&#8217;s the story of an elderly woman who discovers courage when she answers the classic question: Who is my neighbour?<\/p>\n<p>You can get the magazine here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fictionmagazines.com\/shop\/realm-issues\/new-realm-vol-02-no-03\/?refer=2410\">fictionmagazines.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00HVLPL4Q\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00HVLPL4Q&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=grypcler-20\">Amazon.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>(The story is republished in <em>Good Neighbours and Other Stories<\/em>.)<\/div>\n<h2>Upcoming<\/h2>\n<h3>In Memory<\/h3>\n<p>This tribute anthology to Sir Terry Pratchett, in support of Alzheimer&#8217;s research, will feature my story &#8220;There&#8217;s a Tattoo, but the Robes Hide It&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For the Dark Lord&#8217;s consort, leaving him isn&#8217;t easy. The best of a bad set of choices is a deal with the trickster god, Enkeli. But naturally, there&#8217;s a catch&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>The Overcast<\/h3>\n<p>A future episode of this podcast will feature &#8220;Something Rich and Strange.&#8221; A\u00a0Victorian miss in an alternate version of our world finds her true self at the Change Storm, the bizarre natural phenomenon that her father studies.<\/p>\n<h3>Stupefying Stories Showcase<\/h3>\n<p>Both my flash piece &#8220;Antimirus&#8221; and my short story &#8220;Alix and the Dragon&#8221; will appear in <i>Stupefying Stories Showcase<\/i>, at dates yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<h3>Makers of Magic<\/h3>\n<p>A themed solo collection. I&#8217;m writing 13 stories in 12 settings (two Gryphon Clerks ones), each involving a different kind of magic user.<\/p>\n<p>Because I want to sell as many of the stories as I can to magazines and anthologies first, and then have to wait for the rights to revert, this one is scheduled for 2017.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got so much happening now in short stories that I needed to give them their own page. My novels are here. (All Amazon links from this page, and the ones to fictionmagazines.com, earn me affiliate commissions above and beyond &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/short-stories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1328\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}