Publication news! My dark fantasy story “The Magic” is available to read on the Dark Recesses Webzine. I love the picture Dark Recesses chose for it! Here’s a sneak peek at my story: The Magic by Karl El-Koura Where’s Sophie? Face-down in the pool, her golden hair floating around her. […]
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My short story “The Grecian Urn” is now available in the Summer of Year One issue of Funemployment Quarterly. Here is a sneak peek: The Grecian Urn by Karl El-Koura He leaned back from his typewriter, blinking forcefully, reading the words at the top of the white page one more […]
My short story “Her Last Will” is now available in Issue 81 of Metaphorosis. You can buy the issue if you’d like to read my story and the content listed below. Table of Contents To the Wild Sea — B. Morris Allen For the Love of Wild Things — Mande […]
My fantastical, kind-of time-travel story “The Grecian Urn” is forthcoming in the sabbatical-themed summer volume of Funemployment Quarterly. That’s right, summer volume: I’m told the anthology will be released by the end of this month.
I’m very happy to announce that my science fiction short story “The Shift,” first published in Issue 41 of The Colored Lens, will be turned into a full-cast audio production by Night Shift Radio’s The Storyteller Series. I’ve had my stories narrated (including “The Undertow Jackpot” in StarShipSofa and “The […]
The Word Balloon Books anthology Rockets & Robots, edited by James and Cheryl Maxey, is now available. Rockets & Robots includes my story “Battle at the Pit,” which was originally published in the May 2015 issue of FrostFire Worlds. The full table of contents is below, followed by a sneak […]