Hi y’all,

Do you ever have something happening that’s so cool and exciting that you actually can’t think about it too much or your brain will explode?  And you have, like, a job and tennis classes to go to and friends to meet up with to talk about Jane Austen, so you can’t let your brain explode?  So then you’re so busy not thinking about it (and also working at said job) that you totally miss when It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton puts out an episode with a story that’s a personal favorite and one of the things you’re proudest of writing?

…So then you only let your newsletter subscribers know about it almost a week later? 

Oops.

I’m so delighted to tell all of you that “The Glass City” is now podcasted!  On the wonderful It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton!  Listen to it here (link is to Pocketcast, but it’s on all the places podcasts tend to hang out).

I am such a fan of the podcast, and I’m so grateful to Wil and the entire team behind It’s Storytime for choosing to narrate my work and for their entire project.  Short fiction can be a very lonely endeavor—it can feel like throwing a tiny piece of your soul into a black hole and just immediately watching it disappear, to put it one way—so having a space dedicated to showcasing short fiction for a slightly different audience is really incredible.  “The Coffin Maker” was also narrated on the show last year (I’ve been so lucky!), and in both cases it’s really felt like the show gave my words back to me in a way that’s hard to articulate but has been really lovely.

So!  Please go listen to “The Glass City”!  (If you’re not a podcast person, it is also in Uncanny Magazine.)  If you read it the first time, feel free to give it another listen—it might be a good refresher for the next thing that happens, and I like to think it holds up.

Short Story Log

I recently read and loved the super-short horror story “NoMouth” by Marianne Kirby (in Nightmare Magazine).  It’s, like, sweet and terrible and gross and beautiful, and it’s several different fairytales smushed together, and it’s less than 700 words.  It’s awesome.

Until very soon!

Love,

AnaMaria