I’ve added a new sub-site to my website specifically for short stories, since that’s become a significant part of my fiction output. I’ve sold eight stories so far this year (one of which I’m still not allowed to talk about, so watch this space).

Since my last update, two more have been published. The first is “There’s a Tattoo, but the Robes Hide It,” a comic sword-and-sorcery tale in which the Dread Lord’s consort, desperate to leave him, reluctantly enlists the aid of the trickster god. It’s published in the charity anthology In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett, which is burning up the Amazon charts. (As I write, it’s number 28 in the Kindle store for fantasy anthologies.) All proceeds go to Alzheimer’s research, so I encourage you to pick up a copy. Not only does it honour Terry Pratchett by its charitable purpose, but the stories are a fitting tribute to his legacy of humane, moving, funny fantasy.

The other story just out is “Something Rich and Strange“. A Victorian miss in an alternate version of our world finds her true self at the Change Storm, the bizarre natural phenomenon on which her professor father is a leading expert. Her father and his mansplaining assistant expect her to fall into the role of audience/love interest/impediment/rescuee that is the lot of professors’ daughters in so many pulp adventure stories, but she has ideas of her own. This one is published in podcast form at The Overcast, so you can enjoy someone reading it to you.

I’ve also recently sold a couple of stories to Stupefying Stories, and I’ll let you know about those when they come out. And then there’s that secret one.

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Mike Reeves-McMillan

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Mike Reeves-McMillan lives in Auckland, New Zealand, the setting of his Auckland Allies contemporary urban fantasy series; and also in his head, where the weather is more reliable, and there are a lot more wizards. He also writes the Gryphon Clerks series (steampunk/magepunk), the Hand of the Trickster series (sword-and-sorcery heist capers), and short stories which have appeared in venues such as Compelling Science Fiction and Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores.