Here I try to keep a comprehensive list of all my works currently available. If you have have corrections or questions about any story and its availability (including stories not listed here that you think, recall, or suspect are by me), drop me an email, it’ll be appreciated!
If the story title is linked, the piece is available to read online. Otherwise, the link leads to the book, anthology, or magazine subscription page.
Aqua Vitae
Jenes Inarya wants to live to experience everything, and it just might be possible. Her quest for immortality leads her through myth and legend to the farthest reaches of the galaxy (well, so the Jericho magazine article said, although it’s prone to exaggeration). And it’s only the beginning. The rest of a very long life is about to start–but Jenes doesn’t yet know how to live it.
“Aqua Vitae is only 70-pages long, but manages to pack a lot…part science-fiction drama, part cautionary fable…by the end, Aqua Vitae offers an interesting discussion on mortality and what it means to live, through the lens of a character who wants more from her life…Overall, this was a quick and thought-provoking read, set against an universe made interesting by its reaches into various mythologies, and I would recommend it to anyone with a little free time on their hands and an appetite for the speculative.” -James N. (Amazon reviewer, 4 stars)
“Bottom line: an engaging and challenging read, with some food for thought if you have the patience to ferret it out. “-Joan Leib, The Future Fire Reviews
- Find it at:
Amazon Barnes & Noble iTunes Kobo Powell’s Diesel eBooks BetterWorldBooks
Short Stories: A Dark and Wonderful History
Dark fantasy stories based in the same secondary world, centered around women.
- “The Gallows Wife,” Semaphore Magazine & 2009 anthology, reprinted in Shadows Within Shadows.
- Find it at: Amazon Alibris Barnes and Noble Better World Books
- “The Loving and Keeping of Wolves,” WolfSongs 2 EPPIE Winner Best Anthology of 2011
- Find it at: Amazon Powell’s Kobo Barnes and Noble Better World Books
- “How the Woman Brought Death,” All About Eve
- Find it at: Amazon Powell’s Kobo Barnes and Noble Better World Books
- “The Godslayer’s Wife,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #71 (available on Kindle)
- “Invitation of the Queen,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #52 (available on Kindle)
- “Goldenseed,” Thoughtcrime Experiments anthology
- Find it at: Amazon Better World Books
- “Silver Chests and Plain Sight,” Bards and Sages Quarterly, reprinted online at Voluted Tales
- “So Cold My Blood Freezes,” Champagne Shivers magazine
- “The Forest Gods,” Fantastique Unfettered #5
Short Stories: Across the Curse-Strewn World
Stories featuring Aniver, a wizard of the city Nurathaipolis-that-was, now lost to rogue time, and Semira, the sailor who joins his quest to save it.
- “The Storms in Arisbat,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #110 (available on Kindle) Recommended review from Lois Tilton, Locus Online
- “For Lost Time,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #165 (available on Kindle)
- “The Grace of Turning Back,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #179 (available on Kindle)
Other stories in this setting:
- “After Zandar” at Sorcerous Signals
Short Stories: Heart’s Kindred
The adventures of Rathin and Anweth, a wandering couple equipped with sword and sorcery.
- “Every Mother’s Child” in Fantastique Unfettered Issue #2
- Find it at: Barnes and Noble Amazon.com Alibris
- “An Honorable Aunt” in Silver Blade #18
- “Through the Father Range” in Outposts of Beyond #4
- “Eisiden’s Sister” in Fictionvale Episode 4
Other stories in this setting:
- “Of the Generation” in Roar and Thunder magazine; reprinted in Different Dragons II from WolfSinger Publications; also reprinted in the Heroic Fantasy anthology from Flame Tree Publishing
Short Stories: Xeocin Empire
- “The Halcyon in Flight,” Crossed Genres
- “The Twilight People,” originally in Tower of Light magazine
- “Goddess of Ashes,” originally in Tower of Light magazine, reprinted in the Tough as Nails anthology
- Find it at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Alibris
- “The Sorceress of Avalo,” originally in Byzarium magazine, reprinted in Sorcerous Signals
- “In the Mirror,” originally in Silver Blade, reprinted in the Lorelei Signal.
- “Ameran Theater” in Every Day Fiction
Short Stories: Science Fiction Stories
- “John Kosichev” in Storyteller Magazine, Vol 1, No 2
- “Arnheim’s World” in Analog Magazine, May 2015
- “Drown or Die” in The Future Fire and TFF-X: Ten Years of The Future Fire
- “To the Altar” in Warrior Wisewoman 3
- Find it at: Amazon Barnes and Noble Powell’s Alibris Better World Books
- Reprinted in Andromeda’s Children
- “Reila’s Machine” in M-BRANE Science Fiction’s anthology Things We Are Not
- Find it at: Amazon Barnes and Noble Alibris Better World Books
- “The Astrologer’s Telling” in Daily Science Fiction
- “Charismatic” originally at Crossed Genres, reprinted in Ares Magazine issue #3.
- “The Equation in the Mirror,” originally in Perihelion, reprinted in Comets & Criminals
- “The Fosterling” on Daily Science Fiction (available on Kindle)
- “Ayema’s Fleet” in the Battlespace charity anthology. Reprinted in Veterans of Future Wars (BN.com)
- “Outlive” in M-Brane SF #21
- “The Last Veteran” at Every Day Fiction
- “Following the Mercy Man,” in Comets and Criminals
- “Farther Than That” in Queer Fish 2
- Find it at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Alibris Better World Books
- “Two Rivers” in Daughters of Icarus
- Find it at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Alibris
- “A Marriage, Pure and Good” in Scigentasy’s Debut issue
- “The Witch Hunter’s Account” in Nameless Magazine
- “Fortune Cookie” in Kaleidotrope #5
- “Mother,” originally in M-Brane SF #4
- “Harmony” in Kaleidotrope #8
Short Stories: Fantasy Stories, Secondary World
- “Of the Generation” in Roar and Thunder magazine; reprinted in Different Dragons II from WolfSinger Publications; also reprinted in the Heroic Fantasy anthology from Flame Tree Publishing
- “Lord Shashensa” in Sword and Sorceress XXIV (with a shorter version reprinted by Nevermet Press in Stories in the Ether)
- Find it at: Amazon Barnes and Noble Alibris Powell’s Better World Books
- “The Void Test,” originally in MindFlights magazine, reprinted with audio at Cast of Wonders
- “The Beacon and the Keeper,” winner of AnthologyBuilder’s Match That Artwork Contest, youth division.
- “The Wall” in Labyrinth Inhabitant
- “Bequeathment” in A Fly in Amber
- “The Opening,” Raven Electrick
- “Playing the Cloud Flute” in Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine
- “The Wayab’s Tower,” originally in MindFlights
- “Murderer, Confessor, Executioner” in Outposts of Beyond Issue #2 (also available at Smashwords)
Short Fiction: Unsettling Stories That are Almost in This World
- “Hans and Gretta,” originally published in Everyday Weirdness, reprinted in Bete Noire Issue #8
- “The Family,” a charity story published on this very blog.
- “A Wizard of the Roads” in Daily Science Fiction
- “Sibial’ In Exile” in Neo-Opsis Magazine Issue #24
- “Ms Brellin,” originally in Semaphore Magazine, reprinted in the debut issue of Grim Corps
- “The Sorcerer Next Door” in Semaphore Magazine, reprinted in Voluted Tales
- “Underground,” originally published in The Harrow
- “Welcome,” originally published in Everyday Weirdness, reprinted at Dark Futures Fiction
Short Stories: Myth & Humor
- “What’s a Demon For” won Second Prize, Youth division in OddCon’s 2008 OddContest for flash fiction.
- “Dragon Snot and Chosen Ones” at Untied Shoelaces of the Mind (and in its first anthology)
- Find it at: Amazon Barnes & Noble
- “Few Are Called” at Every Day Fiction
- “Firebringer” at Every Day Fiction
- “The Queen’s Arrival,” originally in The Lorelei Signal and Mystic Signals #1, reprinted at Liquid Imagination.
About Therese
Therese Arkenberg's first short story was accepted for publication on January 2, 2008, and her second acceptance came a few hours later. Since then they haven't always been in such a rush, yet her work appears in places like Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Analog, Daily Science Fiction, and the anthology Sword & Sorceress XXIV. Aqua Vitae, her science fiction novella, was released by WolfSinger Publications in December 2011.
She works as a freelance editor and writer in Wisconsin, where she returned after a brief but unforgettable time in Washington, D.C. When she isn't reading, writing, or editing (it's true!) she serves on the board of the Plowshare Center of Waukesha, which works for social, economic, and environmental justice.