The print edition Oona the Unvanquishable, Issue 4, "Death Comes from the River" is available together with stickers!
Exclusively at Cosmic Comix, 529 S Camp Meade Rd, Linthicum Heights, MD.
Pick 'em up while they last! #SwordandSorcery published on the finest pulp paper & as always #FreeFiction
Imagined Endings
Perhaps you remember the “Dear Aliens” contest? Maybe you even submitted a story to be shared with our alien visitors?
Mr Man and I have had a lot going on over the past few months so I did not get a story together, but I’m glad that many of you did. And now, the winners have been announced!
To Those Arriving Soon by MacEagon Voyce
“You’ll know by now that we humans fear the unknown, and that we fill that chasm with stories, imagining endings we have some agency over.”
See the full list for the top ten stories, and enjoy!
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Summer Lovin’
Annie Reed and Dave Hendrickson invited me to participate in their summertime romance anthology, Sunkissed Summer. I love writing for anthologies, and as my life is getting less hectic, I have more time to do so. (I had hoped to be in their previous volumes, but time and attention allow that to be possible.) Sunkissed Summer features […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/06/10/summer-lovin/
Free Fiction Monday: Alien Ball
Frank loves basketball. His long career covering basketball puts him in high demand. His purist views on the game well-known. So, when the Ashtenga seek to form an Ashtenga/Human League for basketball, the Interglobal Sports Network wants Frank to give voice to the anti-alien point of view. But what Frank discovers might change his views…on […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/06/08/free-fiction-monday-alien-ball/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #ScienceFiction #aliens #basketball
"Oona the Unvanquishable," the 2-page zine in Scribe & Sigil APA, will finish 2026 with 10 issues and an annual (more on that later). The 10th issue, dated to December, will appear in S&S's 2027 volume. For 2027, I plan to switch to a bi-monthly schedule which should result in 5 issues and an annual (inshallah).
I'm considering also a newsletter which could also include a mailbag!
The latest audio drama of Oona the Unvanquishable is out! Go to our Youtube to check out Issue 3. "Scourge of the Forsaken Sky"
https://youtu.be/wMJmmu6nXow?si=Ooq-fWbeyhcLQs56
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Lately, It’s All Time Travel, All The Time (pun intended)
My latest novelette, “The Test of Time,” just appeared in Lightspeed Magazine. Editor John Joseph Adams describe the story by saying it contains “all the SFnal crunchiness of time travel paradoxes inside a delicious academia setting. It’s like the Reese’s peanut butter cup of SF novelettes!” And, y’know? It is! I think you’ll enjoy it. You […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/06/06/lately-its-all-time-travel-all-the-time-pun-intended/
#AlternateHistory #freefiction #ScienceFiction #TimeTravel #LightspeedMagazine
Breaking the Spell
A little free flash fiction from Ada Hoffmann, in Lightspeed Magazine.
Ten Unsent Letters to the Dark Lord
The conditions in Good Queen Frida’s dungeon are strangely adequate. I sit on a tiny cot between clean stone walls by torchlight. The guards come by with wholesome day-old bread and pure water. They ask if I am comfortable. I do not know if all the Good Queen’s prisoners are treated so well. If she really is as kind and fair as she makes herself out to be. Or if it is because they have found out, through some means, what happened at the very end.
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Photo by Marcus Ganahl on Unsplash #365Ways #365Ways2026 #betterFutures #freeFiction #Writers #writing
Free Fiction Monday: G-Men
February, 1964: Two men die in a squalid alley in a bad neighborhood. New York Homicide Detective Seamus O’Reilly receives the shock of his life when he looks at the men’s identification: J. Edgar Hoover, the famous, tyrannical director of the FBI, and his number one assistant, Clyde Tolson. O’Reilly teams up with FBI agent […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/06/01/free-fiction-monday-g-men/
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The latest Scribe & Sigil is out. Check out Issue 4 of Oona the Unvanquishable.
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