Hey Canadian Spec Lit Fans! I’m happy to confirm that I have five pieces eligible for this year’s Aurora Awards: four poems and one microfiction short story.
Poems:
“Surfacing” – Abyss & Apex, 2020
The siren, in silence, scales the blue-wave cathedral to the surface. She bathes in red light on waves. Flames blossom onto night-black water.
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“Re-Wilding” – Augur Magazine 3.1
You: wake up in the dark,
tattered into breath.
You: capture the tide,
ride the typhoon, soak
in the monsoon rains of
disaster.
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“Hecatomb” – Vastarien Lit Journal 3.2
This horizon of rusted machines
extracts what shines bright:
golden poisons, black snakes
and femurs, glistening.
Flowers drip like meat, wrap
our bleaching bones: a shrine
to what devours us.
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Depth Sounding (Haiku)- Space and Time Magazine #137
He slips off his skin
and dives beneath the black waves:
trail the fathom glow.
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FICTION
“To The World Beyond the Sky” – Stargazers: Microtales from the Cosmos
Sunlight had grown dimmer each day until it was a dark orange tinge in the sky. A gloom across the horizon: Earth’s yellow sun in its last throes. Thousands had already made their way to Helionous, the Earth-like exoplanet; the wealthiest already evacuated, a randomly-selected worker lottery followed.
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Wela’lioq for your consideration!
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