Hey!
I just noticed that my story “The Urchin’s Dark Kite” is now live in the May 2008 issue of the online fiction magazine A Fly in Amber. Woo.
Please go read it, and enjoy.
Ramblings of Michael J. DeLuca
Hey!
I just noticed that my story “The Urchin’s Dark Kite” is now live in the May 2008 issue of the online fiction magazine A Fly in Amber. Woo.
Please go read it, and enjoy.
Congrats! I’ll have to remember to catch that. 🙂
Cool!
Cool story, Mike. For my curiosity, in what ‘era’ of the DeLuca was this originally written?
Thanks, all!
Erin, it was written in late 2004, during the post-horribble-epic-F-novel/pre-Odyssey era of the DeLuca. It sat in the trunk for a good long while, and has been through 2 or 3 significant revisions since it came out again, but a few of the hallmarks are still there—note the flagrant violation of Odyssey rule #371b in the third paragraph, where I use the verb “watched” no less than 4 times. 🙂 I am a stubborn bastard.
Again, cool. 🙂 Always good to sell those stories. Your writing style is of course immediately recognizable, and I also knew it was a DeLuca story because about midway through I had no idea what was going on. 🙂 But by the end I think I figured it out, and was enjoying the glimpse into the abstract but highly intentional alternate world.
I didn’t even notice the “watched”s. =P
I don’t think I knew you went through an epic F novel phase. I’m about 3/4 of the way through a rather strange mishmash collaboration between James Mallory and Mercedes Lackey, in the horrible epic F novel milieu, and will no doubt have fruminous thoughts on it soon, and the respective and conflicting values of storytelling vs writing…
Congrats! I look forward to reading it soon.
Deluca rocks. ‘Nuff Said.