The Perfect Disappearance
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A Cage Went In Search of a Bird
Telling a story without words.
https://youtu.be/7aYKqf8Kvlo?si=uXJf90KJj7MAvbee
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A Cage Went In Search of a Bird
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Music © 2024 by Jesse Rowell
The anthology "All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt" is available now.
My story "I Am Not, Until I Am" is featured in Health & Longevity section.
"What a wonderful and inspiring alternative to the so-called 'world-building' of today's science fiction industry. Here are some real lessons on how to speculate in ways that may actually open new potentials for human flourishing."
--Douglas Rushkoff, Team Human.
All Tomorrows Futures
Holy smokes, folks! My new story, "Second Skin," is live on Wrath-Bearing Tree.
https://www.wrath-bearingtree.com/2024/02/new-fiction-by-jesse-rowell-second-skin/
Controversial and prescient, "Second Skin" is a captivating sci-fi story that explores the themes of immigration, human rights, and betrayal. Read it with empathy.
New Fiction by Jesse Rowell: "Second Skin" - Wrath-Bearing Tree
Alpert Nelsen had lost a toe. He just didn’t know it yet. Not a big toe. One of the smaller ones. It got infected when he kicked a roll of fencing after his cameraman deleted the interview footage. “Can’t you disinfect it?” he asked his doctor, a bearded and bespectacled man working out of a […]
Past Adjacent by Jesse Rowell is available online now! Read or listen to audio, humorous hard sci-fi.
https://amazingstories.com/2024/01/past-adjacent-by-jesse-rowell-free-story/
Speaking of nature and arachnids, one of my favorites is the goldenrod crab spider pictured here camouflaged in the cusp of a creeping buttercup as it sucks the juices out of a black-tailed bumble bee. Poor little bee. Nature is metal.
Pending publications, upcoming stories in 2024!
Lots of rejections from publishers this year, all taken in stride, but quite pleased with the stories picked up by publishers. Thank you to all the editors and slush pile readers who pulled my work out of the slurry.
"Past Adjacent," in Amazing Stories Magazine.
"Second Skin," in Wrath-Bearing Tree.
"I Am Not, Until I Am," in CyberSalon.
"Or Every Man Be Blind," in Ab Terra.
22 Ideas About the Future: audiobook released on Audible.
Narrated by Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg, introduction by Douglas Rushkoff, @Rushkoff, includes an essay by @yenooi, and many other authors (sorry, couldn't find all to tag on Mastodon).
The anthology features my story, "The Valens Program," an evocative tale that will leave you wondering if the firewall between reality and disinformation is as strong as we once thought.
Excerpt from my new story, "And Neptune Wept to See."
"The scarlet plague had covered the world like an ill-fitting blanket, its corners bunched into maroon hues of dusk."
Short story finished. “And Neptune Wept to See.” Sending to publishers. Wish me luck!