Friday, October 26, 2012

Write What You Want—Eric James Stone

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For several years, the Codex Writers forum has held a contest called "Weekend Warrior." For five straight weekends starting in Jan...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Constance’s Mask- Nick T. Chan

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This story emerged directly from my writers of the future volume 28 story, The Command for Love. My first draft of that story was an abysm...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Sojourn for Ephah—Marina J. Lostetter

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Sojourn for Ephah is really a tale of two characters, and each came about in their own way. I have to thank my brother for Ephah. If we ha...
Monday, September 17, 2012

The Butcher of Londinium—J. Deery Wray

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I came up with the initial idea for "The Butcher of Londinium" while skimming through a Jack the Ripper book for information on po...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2012

The Flower of Memory—Michael Haynes

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This story was written not long after I returned to writing from one of many long hiatuses. At that point, I was experimenting with all sor...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Riding the Signal—Gary Kloster

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So, monkeys.     I don't have a problem with monkeys. I don't want one, but then I firmly believe that you should never have a pet...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Dark and Deep—Holli Mintzer

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I started this story a couple of times. I knew I wanted to write something about backcountry witches, and about the relationships between si...
Monday, August 06, 2012

For Lenore—Kenneth Kao

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Ah, the story behind the story.  Well, lucky for me, there's a story behind "For Lenore" that I don't have to exaggerate o...
Thursday, August 02, 2012

InterGalactic Medicine Show, Issue 29

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Welcome to Issue 29 of IGMS . There's a drought across much of America this summer, but there's no shortage of good reading here at ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

The Curse of Sally Tincakes—Brad R. Torgersen

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"The Curse of Sally Tincakes" began life as a workshop story in Lincoln City, Oregon. It is the fraternal twin of my Nebula and Hu...
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Friday, July 06, 2012

IGMS Awards Anthology Free at Amazon

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The Kindle version of the IGMS Awards Anthology is free right now on Amazon! Go get it while it lasts! -Scott M. Roberts Asst. Editor ...
Friday, June 29, 2012

Master Madrigal's Mechanical Man—Scott Mikula

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By day I'm a software developer, so I'm well acquainted with the tension between perfection and pragmatism.  When software is "...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Thieftaker - By David B. Coe (writing as D.B. Jackson)

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A bonus for all you story-behind-the-story fans: I invited David B. Coe, author of several stories published in IGMS, to talk a little bit...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

The Snake King Sells Out—Rahul Kanakia

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Perhaps I'm betraying my youth and class origins here, but the working world still feels very strange to me. In school, your primary bus...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Calling the Train—Jeff Stehman

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Calling the Motivation The prompt: "Write about a musical instrument that controls life and/or death." Short, simple, to the p...
Monday, June 04, 2012

Blank Faces—M.K. Hutchins

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"Blank Faces" began with a rejection letter. I sent the rejected tale to another market and plopped down to write a new story -- a...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Our Vast and Inevitable Death—S. Boyd Taylor

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“Our Vast and Inevitable Death”, or OVID, as I like to call it, sprang from the collision of a variety of different ideas and memories. Trac...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

A Memory of Freedom—D.B. Jackson

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Writing “A Memory of Freedom” was, in many ways, a journey of discovery for me. I have been writing about Ethan Kaille, the lead character i...
Monday, April 02, 2012

In the Fading Light of Sundown—Nancy Fulda

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"In the Fading Light of Sundown" began as an entry in the yearly Codexian Idol story contest.  Codexian Idol is a beloved traditio...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Free IGMS ebook - This weekend

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The ebook version of the IGMS Awards anthology is going to be free on Amazon this weekend, from Saturday, March 24 through and including ...
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