Hello, I'm a short story writer, fiction podcaster, and book author. ππ½ You can read my short genre fiction on my site or listen to it in my podcast. New stories weekly. ***FIND IT ALL AT STORYFEATHER.COM *** Genres: science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, fables, mythology, and occasionally, horror. Follow me on Pinterest to see soothing art progression videos. Or read previous issues of my email publication, the Storyfeather Gazette, to learn more about my stories and about me. (This profile page of mine is just the tip of the iceberg. I invite you to explore any of the links that interest you below. π§ Choose high jinks π€.)
Storyfeather Gazette: Three sisters with bejeweled organs, a doomed extraterrestrial visitor, and a shrew determined to find magic
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August 2025 Issue 2 In this issue: Short stories and podcast episodes from the second half of August, and a poll about the September story theme. MANY FUN THINGS HAVE HATCHED π£Did you know I've written at least four stories about eggs? Don't worry, this is not an all-eggs issue. I've got you covered provided you're into animal friends going on adventures, fairy tales about enchanted sisters, and stories about Earth suffering imminent doom. (But if you do want an all-eggs issue, let me know. π). βοΈ πͺΆ πGreetings! I'm Nila. Every week, I release a new short story and a new podcast episode spanning the genres of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, mythology, fairy tale, fable, and horror. Altered August πβοΈ For this month's theme, I start the story with one genre, but by the time it's finished, it's a different genre. Like those flavor-changing candies. Did I pull it off? π The podcast episodes this issue are space science fiction with a touch of mythology. Titles and taglines below. Enjoy! Short StoriesWe're in Year 12, the Year of Praxis. The word essentially means "practice." Through the stories, I'm exploring elements of my writing practice. βWOODPECKER AND SHREW FLEW ABOVE THE BLUEβ βTHOSE BORN BEJEWELEDβ Podcast EpisodesWe're in season 8, the Year of Revisitation. Each episode is a standalone story, but it's inspired by an earlier story. The text links below go to the Explore page on Storyfeather, where you can listen to the episode, find the links to the episode(s) that inspired it, and more. Pressing on the Spotify embed image leads to the episode's Spotify page. βDOCTOR SPENCER'S FALLEN STARβ An astrobiologist gathers and assembles clues from across time to help solve a cosmic mystery that threatens to doom Earth. βοΈ
βMANY THINGS HAVE HATCHEDβ Once, a colossal egg floated in space. It was the size of a planet, and it orbited the twin stars of a system somewhere in a galaxy far from our own. π₯π
π§Like all children born in their realm, Opal had slipped out of her mother like water. Soft and fresh. With skin and bones just as clear, so that all her insides were plain to see. Her lungs were pink and pumping. Her heart was red and thumping. Her bowels correctly clumping. ...as the air struck her skin, her bones whitened and her skin turned toasty. The midwife declared that before the baby's brain vanished from her sight, she had glimpsed the iridescent sheen of opal. βFrom "Those Born Bejeweled"
Parting wordsπͺΆ Next time, we venture into uncanny places. And I write stories about spies, or insects, or interceptions. Happy reading and listening! π |
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Hello, I'm a short story writer, fiction podcaster, and book author. ππ½ You can read my short genre fiction on my site or listen to it in my podcast. New stories weekly. ***FIND IT ALL AT STORYFEATHER.COM *** Genres: science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, fables, mythology, and occasionally, horror. Follow me on Pinterest to see soothing art progression videos. Or read previous issues of my email publication, the Storyfeather Gazette, to learn more about my stories and about me. (This profile page of mine is just the tip of the iceberg. I invite you to explore any of the links that interest you below. π§ Choose high jinks π€.)