I debated between an exclamation mark and interrogation point in the header to this post, and settled on the latter as the more humble choice. It doesn’t mean that I’m not excited that the NewMyths.com editors have nominated my story “The Book Traveler” to their Readers’ Choice 2025 ballot! If […]
Writing
Publication news! My short story “Journey to Anasta” is now available to AmazingStories.com Patreon members (it will be available to everyone on their website next week). “Journey to Anasta” first appeared in Volume 3, Issue 2 of Utopia Science Fiction in Fall 2021, then collected in Utopia’s Five Year Anthology […]
My short story “The Azurian Shield,” first published in Book 70 (October 2021) of Metaphorosis, is now available as an ebook. Details below! A crack has formed in the shield that envelopes the realm. Although Bathar, the chief of the royal guard, cannot allow that to happen, the price to […]
My flash fiction piece “The Evolution of Democracy in Four Walls” is live at foofaraw! Here’s a sneak peek: The Evolution of Democracy in Four Walls by Karl El-Koura Come in, everyone. Closer! I don’t bite, though my ancestors were made of bytes. I’ll pause for a second while you […]
Burial Books will be publishing my short story “The Gods Old and New” in an upcoming fantasy anthology (I previously sold them my story “The Storyteller Stone” for their science fiction anthology). Stay tuned for a publication date!
Very happy to announce that NewMyths.com will be reprinting my story “The Book Traveler” in their upcoming anthology Janus Gates, scheduled for publication next spring. “The Book Traveler” originally appeared last summer in their Issue 67, Vol. 18. Below is a graphic from that publication.