SHORT STORY REX Oct 2024
1. R.T. Ester, “After Stasis” Finely-drawn sci-fi suspense on the virtual pages of Interzone Digital. Claustrophobia and fear of contagion reign among three...
Interview with Ivy Grimes
Anyone who was reading along with Short Story Rex last year knows that 2023 was the year I discovered the work of Ivy Grimes. I couldn’t shut up about her!...
SHORT STORY REX Aug/Sep 2024
1. “Letter from Mt. Monroe Elementary 3rd Grade”, Sarah Pauling I’ll admit things trend toward “bleak” or at the least “darkly, darkly obtuse” here at Short...
20 Book Covers pt 1
August has been a wild time and I’ve been slack on my short story recs so I’ll probably double up and do an August-September post a month or so from now. In...
SHORT STORY REX July 2024
jfc is this month over already 1. “Saurophaster in Oculus”, JF Gleeson Surprise, surprise, another story from ergot.! This one messes around with all sorts...
2024 so far: stories
It’s mid July and this year is a little more than half way over so I thought it’d be a good moment to do a little self-promo recap of the stories I’ve had...
SHORT STORY REX June 2024
Short Story Rex, June 2024 1. “The Abandoned”, Jack Klausner It was just sitting there in the dead leaves, she says.I tell her she shouldn’t pick up things...
“Manywhere, Manyone, Manything” in Seize the Press #10
“Manywhere, Manyone, Manything” in Seize the Press #10 As of a week or so ago, my story “Manywhere, Manyone, Manything” is available for all to read online...
SHORT STORY REX May 2024
SHORT STORY REX May 2024 1.”About Face And”, Ben Lockwood Still thinking about this story a long while later. Specifically, my writer/editor brain is...
SHORT STORY REX April 2024
SHORT STORY REX April 2024 1. “Alabama Circus Punk,” Thomas Ha More brilliant work from Thomas Ha, this time in ergot. A story that convincingly shows how an...
“The Skullhole Panic” and “La reja de Fátima IV”
“The Skullhole Panic” and “La reja de Fátima IV” Very quickly, some updates for March and April of this year. 1) the April issue of Gamut magazine has this...
SHORT STORY REX March 2024
SHORT STORY REX March 2024 1. "Dirt Retreat", Eugénie Szwalek The cover of the new Fusion Fragment is beautiful and the story its based on, equally so....
SHORT STORY REX Feb 2024
Short Story Rex Feb 2024 1. "Pig House", Kay Vaindal so if i described this story as 'mother and daughter go on a road trip to visit a pig' you might at...
New story: "Hank Eltz, the Singer"
New story: "Hank Eltz, the Singer" Hi there and welcome to the new newsletter, or rather the old newsletter in a new place. Still getting to grips with...
Updates Jan-Feb 2024
Some housekeeping re me and my stories
SHORT STORY REX Jan 2024
Happy new(ish) year everybody! Here, have some short story recs!
SHORT STORY REX - Year One in Review
featuring tons of stories by a whole bunch of people
me and my little stories 2023
by the way, have i ever told you about me at all
SHORT STORY REX Nov 2023
Samir Sirk Morató, Fabio Fernandes, Herman fuckin' Melville. and more
SHORT STORY REX Oct 2023
Fargo Tbakhi, Evan Forman, Ivy Grimes, Brian Evenson
"I Piss Up Your Throat and Out Your Mouth" and "Otro tipo de tempestad"
A story and a song
SHORT STORY REX sep 2023
Karlo Yeager Rodriguez, June Martin and not one but two Thomases (Ha and Ligotti)
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: "Clarinet"
One year ago today1, my story “Clarinet” went live to the public2 in issue #4 of Seize the Press. I only bring it up because out of all the stories ive...
SHORT STORY REX August 2023
C.B. Blanchard, Alice M, Harry Harrison, and some dipshit named NM Whitley or something
"With the Virion" and "El hombre que pudo reinar"
A story and a song
SHORT STORY REX - July 2023
Vajra Chandrasekera, Sasha Brown, Max Barker, Margaret St Clair and more
Coming soon: a story in The Café Irreal
But first: some recommendations
SHORT STORY REX June 2023
Elena Sichrovsky, Camilla Grudova, Sascha Belle Nastasi and Manly Wade Wellman...oh, and Steely Dan also
"Una de Leño"
RIFYL songs with prominent cowbell
SHORT STORY REX May 2023
Joe Koch, Ivy Grimes, Mary Thorson and more
When the catnip kicks in
Pangrams, messages in bottles, and the music of Young Nickels the Great
SHORT STORY REX April 2023
M John Harrison, Camilla Grudova, Judith Shadford, Sherwood Anderson and more...
TO BOLDLY WATCH WHAT I HAVE NEVER WATCHED BEFORE pt 2
rule #1: fazers on stun
SHORT STORY REX March 2023
Christopher O'Halloran, Robert López, Paula D Ashe, J Billings and more
TO BOLDLY WATCH WHAT I HAVE NEVER WATCHED BEFORE
st:tos pt.1/?
SHORT STORY REX for Feb 2023
Trevor Bonas, Naben Ruthnum, JR Bolt, Ray Bradbury, and more
SHORT STORY REX for Jan 2023
Violet Allen, Ivy Grimes, Margaret St Clair and more
So this is how it's going to go down
just so you know