Fiction updates
A while ago (during November, to be exact) I blogged that I was using NaNoWriMo as a framework for trying to finish a story I was writing. I wrote that I…
Category: fiction
The Solitary Golfer, nthposition, March 2012
From about 2010 I began to submit my stories to various publications with mixed results. Around the same time I discovered duotrope.com and how accessible the world of literary publications…
“On Call To The Vampire”, Bloodbond, November 2015
A short story of mine, “On Call To The Vampire”, has appeared in the November 2015 issue of Bloodbond , a publication devoted to vampiric literature. I wrote the original story in…
Edge. Thomas Blackthorne. Sf Site. 2010.
My recent disinterrment of some of my posts on OneTouchFootball.com included this nil thread about blades, which included a now-dead link to a site on all things blade. Revisiting SF Site reviews, I find…
Review of “Pink Noise”, Leonid Korogoski, SF Site, 2011
This was a stimulating read. To a certain degree, something not unlike what I internally call The Oxford Murders Effect was at play in this review – the context of when I read…
Review of “Future Media”, ed. Rick Wilber, SF Site, 2012
I had a fruitful email correspondence with Rick Wilber after this. My dislike of the uncritical celebration fan fic – also evident here – as something radical and innovative rather than derivative…
Alt Kafka: Franz Kafka and Alternate History. Blog post on Alt Hist site, March 13, 2013
The original post is subtitled “Franz Kafka in Alternate History”. Re-reading the post I wonder if “and” is more precise, although as the bulk of the piece is a review…
“Dublin Can Be Heaven”, Alt Hist. December 2011
This is my first fiction piece published outside of nthposition.com. I gave the background to the piece in an interview with Alt Hist’s editor Mark Lord you can read here . The…
Séamus Sweeney 