Visit Fungosia - now published online by 4 Star Stories

 

My science fiction yarn "Visit Fungosia" is now available to read for free online on 4 Star Stories. 

I would like to add that 4 Star Stories would appreciate any contributions through Ko-fi at https://ko-fi.com/4starstories.

Visit Fungosia published in 4 Star Stories #32

 

My latest story to be published is "Visit Fungosia" in 4 Star Stories edited by David Gray, "a not so tongue-in-cheek alien invasion story. Harry Nealson III was a bored, thrill-seeking adventurer who got more in "the vacation of a lifetime" than he bargained for. Inadvertently swept up in a secret government investigation, he and his traveling companion hold the fate of humanity in their increasingly alien, fungoid hands."

Check it out for free here:

https://4starstories.com/Dark.../html/bonus_story7.html

https://4starstories.com/Dark_grove_Issue32/index.htm

Visit Fungosia

It looks like my next story to be published will be a strange little SF tale called "Visit Fungosia" in the online magazine 4 Star Stories. 

I wrote this quite a few years ago. I'll post a link when it's available.

First new stories to be published in 2025: Essayan's Terrible Machineries of War and Visit Fungosia

It now looks like the first new stories of mine to be published in the New Year will be a dark fantasy called Essayan's Terrible Machineries of War in Crimson Quill Quarterly #5 and a humorous science fiction yarn I wrote a few years back called Visit Fungosia, which will be in 4Star Stories #30. 

I do already have a third story lined up to be serialised in two parts later in the year, Lies and Treachery, which is a sword and sorcery tale involving three recurring characters Horbeck, Brud and Asner, who first appeared in The Demon from Another World (Anthology of the Damned: Necromoirrium).

My only other story so far scheduled for 2025 is a reprint of one that originally appeared in the online Sword & Sorcery Magazine in 2021. This is a tale called The God in the Keep and will be in the August issue of Schlock! Webzine.

Visit Fungosia accepted for publication

I don't know what anyone else's experience has been with submissions sent off a long time ago into seeming oblivion, only to resurface unexpectedly with an acceptance years later, but I had one this week.

 

I submitted a very short humorous science fiction story called Visit Fungosia in October 2019. Never hearing back about it I eventually wrote it off as rejected - till this week, when I learned the editor wished to include it in the next issue of his magazine if it was still available.

 

To be honest, I put this story to one side and had more or less forgotten all about it, so, yes, it is still available.

 

I still find it hard to believe that after nearly five years it was still in the slush pile and has finally made it.

 

More details later when I've exchanged contracts, etc.  

(This also marks my tenth story acceptance this year so far.)