The Only Map is Memory by B. Morris Allen I use my memory for a map. It’s the only map I have, but it’s unreliable in the way all memory is. Objects that I remember as big must have been smaller, loca...

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The center of the universe shifts. When you’re young, it’s all about your principal carer, and food, and bedtime snuggles. As you age, gravity intervenes, and the center moves further away, to cliques...

This was a banner year for me, publication-wise, substantially eclipsing any previous year. Almost a dozen of my stories were published, starting with one of my favorites, "Cupernicity". If you're thinking of awards, please start there, though of course I'd be happy for any of my stories to be considered. “The Coping Saw”, Farthest Star Publishing, 18 Sep 2025, (13,480 words) ($)

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Short fiction Forthcoming “In the Thick of Time”, TBC, TBD, (1,896 words) “The Only Map is Memory”, TBC, TBD, (973 words) 2025 “The Coping Saw”, Farthest Star Publishing, 18 Sep 2025, (13,480 words…

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If I recall correctly, I came up with the title first, and liked the idea of ambiguity in the use of 'coping'. While it started as a story focused on language, style, and metaphor, it turned into an adventure along the way, complete with mad scientist. It was published by Farthest Star on 18 Sep. 2025.

In mid-2024, I was looking through my idea file and found a dragon story. And another, and another. In the end, I wrote about a half-dozen dragon stories of very different kinds. This one, about farm irrigation, was inspired by driving cross-country and seeing a type of vaguely dragon-shaped irrigator that to my delight is actually branded Dragon-Line. This story brings out the true dragon nature associated with that dragon form. It published in Trollbreath on 1 September 2025.

Years ago, I ran across a fractal image that looked just like feathers. I loved it immediately, and resolved to use it as a book cover (with appropriate licensing and attribution, of course). That eventually resulted in the anthology HOPE: The Thing With Feathers, published on 2 Aug 2025. It's an anthology of hopeful, feather-related SFF stories. I wrote my own contribution early on - "A Bird Afraid of Feathers" - and included it as the last story in the book.

I was reading an H. G. Wells story - Mr. Britling Sees it Through - in which he said "And there is a book, I once looked into it at a man's room in London; I don't know the title, but it was by Richard Garnett, and it was all about gods who were in reduced circumstances but amidst sunny picturesque scenery." The line about gods in reduced circumstances intrigued me, so I looked up Garnett's story,