Writing and Editing by Therese Arkenberg
“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…
“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…
“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…
“The Grace of Turning Back,” the final story of the Curse-Strewn World sequence, appears in Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #179, which can be read on the BCS website or in the Kindle store. The Tynesi merchants, who traded everything from the silver rice of Timru and perfume leaves from Simrandu to chips of ivory off the Keld’s temples, had…
Lose no time in going to check out the latest installment in Across the Curse-Strewn World, a short story sequence following the wizard Aniver and his friend Semira’s quest to rescue his home city, which has somehow become lost in time. Their discoveries in the terrifying library of Arisbat have pointed Aniver and Semira in…
It seems absurd to get jet lag from the 1-hour flight from Milwaukee back to DC, even if the flight did include a harrowing forty five minutes waiting on the runway for nonspecific technical anomalies to be repaired. But I’ve definitely been feeling laggy these first few days of 2014. But never mind. The sun…
This weekend, I had one of my first stories in audio publication! You can now listen to “The Void Test,” read by Chloë Yates in the YA Podcast Cast of Wonders. It’s a story of confronting fears, most importantly the sort of fears even ultimate power can’t defeat. The text is included on the website, slightly revised from its originally appearance in MindFlights…
Silver Blade Issue #18 is live, and includes my fantasy story “An Honorable Aunt”. This was one of those stories it was fun to write simply because I was getting inside the heads of people who view the world so differently from me, that it was a stretch of intellectual–and perhaps empathetic–muscle to show their…
Depending on how you define “work in progress,” I currently have anywhere between 14 and 34 of them. And I expect to finish every last one in due time. Just how I’ll manage this at first seems a mystery of faith, but looking back, I’ve had twenty pots on the broiler for as long as I can…
This week my internship brought me to the Writing Staycation at the Writer’s Center of Bethesda, where my supervisor, Zahara Heckscher, is leading a dedicated group of writers on a 9-5 retreat with the goal of sharing ideas, considering mission and goals of writing, and most importantly getting some words down on the page. While…