New KRAD reading (formerly KRAD COVID readings)! This month I read “A Lovely View,” a story for Zorro’s Exploits, a 2022 anthology featuring new stories of the Fox. My tale is about a Don who targets an orphanage, only to find that Zorro is defending it.
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New KRAD reading (formerly KRAD COVID readings)! This month I read “This Little Light of Mine,” my contribution to Season of Darkness, the second of the Phenomenons shared-world superhero anthologies created by Michael Jan Friedman. My story stars Luminosity, the hero of the Bronx, whose best friend is kidnapped — as is Sarcastic Fringehead (created by Mary Fan). Luminosity must team up with Red Sky (Michael A. Burstein), Black Hat (Aaron Rosenberg), and La Colosa y La Particula (Dan Hernandez) to rescue them both.
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New KRAD reading (formerly KRAD COVID readings)! This time around, I read my first-ever Sherlock Holmes story, “The Thick Blue Line,” as the great detective has most unexpected clients: the detective inspectors he’s encountered from Scotland Yard, who have banded together to hire Holmes to find out what’s wrong with their boss. This story is in the new release Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight Volume 2, which also has new Holmes stories by Christopher D. Abbott, Michael Jan Friedman, and Aaron Rosenberg.
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New KRAD reading (formerly KRAD COVID readings)! This month’s tale is my reading of “Know Thyself Deathless” from the new release Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups. My story pairs two badass immortal African women, Ayesha (the title character in H. Rider Haggard’s 1888 novel She) and Egungun-oya (a goddess from the Yoruba pantheon).
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KRAD readings (formerly KRAD COVID readings) is back! After taking 2022 off, I’m now doing a new reading in the middle of every month. This month I read “The Gorvangin Rampages,” a Dragon Precinct story that takes place during the one-year gap between Gryphon Precinct and Mermaid Precinct. This story hasn’t been printed yet, only available to folks who supported the crowdfund for it in 2019 — however, it will appear in the forthcoming More Tales from Dragon Precinct.
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KRAD readings (formerly KRAD COVID readings) is back! After taking 2022 off, I’m now doing a new reading in the middle of every month. This time ’round, it’s “You Can’t Buy Fate,” my Deep Space Nine story that appeared in the digital supplement of Star Trek Explorer #7 — my first new Trek fiction in thirteen years. The story has Ezri Dax and Nog making a first contact shortly after the end of the Dominion War, which goes horribly wrong…
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KRAD readings (formerly KRAD COVID readings) is back! After a one-year hiatus, I’ll be doing a new reading in the middle of every month. This time ’round, it’s the “season finale” of the tales of Cassie Zukav, weirdness magnet: “Ragnarok and a Hard Place,” previously released only to crowdfund supporters, and which will be the anchor story in the collection of the same name that will be released later this year from Plus One Press.
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So question for the group mind….
I’m trying to decide which short fiction piece I’ll read for April’s KRAD reading. I’ve narrowed it down to either:
But I can’t decide between them. So I put it to all y’all: which should I read in April? Please let me know in the comments.
KRAD readings (formerly KRAD COVID readings) is back! After a one-year hiatus, I’ll be doing a new reading in the middle of every month. This time ’round, it’s my story in the 2022 anthology Three Time Travelers Walk Into…, edited by Michael A. Ventrella and published by Fantastic Books. Each of us who contributed took three figures from different points in history and mashed them together. My story, “What You Can Become Tomorrow,” puts author Mary Shelley, Negro Leagues baseball player Josh Gibson, and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson together.
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KRAD readings (formerly KRAD COVID readings) is back! After a one-year hiatus, I’ll be doing a new reading in the middle of every month. This time ’round, it’s my first contribution to the shared-world superhero anthology series Phenomenons, to wit, “The Light Shines in the Darkness” in the first volume, Every Human Creature, the story that introduces Luminosity, the hero of the Bronx.
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