This is a bittersweet post. First, the sweet: On Spec holds a special place in my writer’s heart because it was one of the very first magazines I tried to sell a story to (way back in, ahem, 1996). In 2023, I finally sold them my story “Salvation of the […]
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Story sale news! Hollow Oak Press will be publishing my science fiction short story “Your Badge and Your Gun” (which explores themes of AI and creative writing) as a flash fiction feature on Acorns. My story is scheduled for publication on Friday, November 14th!
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 […]
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 […]