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Lisa Short
Apr 301 min read
New Story Out for April 2024!
I wrote this story for a science fantasy open call--it was shortlisted by that pub, but they ultimately decided against taking it, and I...
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Lisa Short
Apr 31 min read
New story out this past March!
I really enjoyed writing this one--I was seized with the notion of writing a story where it both (a) genuinely was impossible to know for...
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Lisa Short
Mar 21 min read
Contest Anthology Out Now!
I've really struggled with the prompts for this org's contests in the past, and this round's prompts were just as uninspiring as...
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Lisa Short
Feb 211 min read
Weird West Flash out this month!
I've never written Weird West or a werewolf story before--I can't believe how enjoyable it was, and I suspect I now may do it again at...
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Lisa Short
Jan 11 min read
A Little Late, But Such a Gorgeous Issue!
Utopia Magazine put out a special December issue, not only including my hopepunk short "Homeworld" as a reprint, but also full of the...
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Lisa Short
Dec 19, 20231 min read
...And It's Up on SFWA's Nebula Awards Reading List!
It's still hard for me to believe--note: this is not an awards nomination! Just a recommended reading list...but still, that someone WHO...
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Lisa Short
Oct 19, 20231 min read
My Third Story Out with Metaphorosis Magazine
One of my favorite publications, and I'm really honored to have a third story published with them! I always wanted to write a story with...
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Lisa Short
Sep 1, 20231 min read
It's Not a Cry for Help, It's Literary!
...I titled this blog post that because a friend of mine, after reading this story, asked me seriously if I was okay and if I still loved...
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Lisa Short
Aug 13, 20231 min read
New Horror Podcast out!
From Creepy Podcast, which has a lot of awesome free content as well as my roach body horror/trailer park extravaganza Enjoy!
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Lisa Short
Jul 23, 20231 min read
My First Foray into Hopepunk
This story was spawned by a question that occurred to me while I was delving into the relatively new subgenre of hopepunk--what if the...
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Lisa Short
Jun 4, 20231 min read
I love the illustration that Impossible Worlds did for my story!
"The Half-Life of Radium" (Impossible Worlds vol. 2, out now!)
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Lisa Short
May 16, 20231 min read
Two weeks late on this post--new story out!
...it isn't because I don't love this story--I do; it's one of my favorites. A bit cyberpunk, a bit dystopian, but mostly just through...
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Lisa Short
Apr 22, 20231 min read
New Story Out with Dark Matter Ink
I wrote this story about the same time that the US Supreme Court handed down Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization last year...I...
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Lisa Short
Apr 12, 20231 min read
Concept board for my in-progress fantasy novel
Characters pictured, counterclockwise starting at the upper left and ending on the upper middle frame: Sorcha and Adal, Dunixi, Katell,...
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Lisa Short
Mar 2, 20231 min read
Because most young soldiers are hapless idiots...
...that was what really spawned this story. Remembering how the vast majority of us weren't old enough to drink (off base...on base was...
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Lisa Short
Dec 26, 20221 min read
New story out, though not in my usual speculative vein
I recently learned a new phrase (well, new to me)--"generational trauma." It's very rare for me to write a non-speculative piece, and...
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Lisa Short
Dec 20, 20221 min read
Because I just had to write a pandemic story...
Posted today in diet milk magazine's In the Bleak Midwinter collection, my creepy little flash Resurgam--because catching Covid may not...
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Lisa Short
Nov 7, 20221 min read
New Story Available November 9!
I don't write too many children's stories, but this is one of the few--a little dark, a little scary, but a happy ending, and my...
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Lisa Short
Oct 19, 20221 min read
New Story Out!
This is the first of two stories that I have written and sold in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that make it...
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Lisa Short
Oct 10, 20221 min read
New Story Available in the Autumn 2022 issue of Wyldblood!
Wyldblood had a brief surprise open call some months back, for stories that took place in the aftermath of a storm. I happened to have...
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