Learning the Loom

Happy to announce I have a new story out this month titled “Learning the Loom,” published in Uncanny Magazine Issue 71. At 10,703 words it’s really a novelette: a bit of dark fantasy about the weapon of a god who falls to earth, and must now endure mortality. There’s also a fair amount of weaving.

That fantastic cover is by artist Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe, and you can view more of her work at ArtOfEdge.com.

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Who’s Afraid of a Black Helen of Troy?

Did you hear that Lupita Nyong’o has been cast as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Odyssey flick? Of course you have. Because the usual chorus of salty folk won’t let you not know. The face that launched a thousand ships, has launched a thousand takes. So I figure, why can’t I have one? Let’s go!

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CRONUS

So, I published a short for Amazon last year in an anthology titled The Time Traveler’s Passport, alongside some greats like John Scalzi, RF Kuang, and Olivie Blake. Being asked to do a thing for Amazon, was… weird. But the folk behind it were good people. So, I channeled a bit of my inner Dan Freeman (look it up) and the result was… Cronus—a dystopian story of a near future that mirrors our times. And resistance.

Guess I maybe shoulda mentioned it.

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