Charlie Slawson sat alone in the transit station, watching a set of empty train tracks and wondering why the train… Read more The Train To Wednesday (Published in Diabolical Plots)

Charlie Slawson sat alone in the transit station, watching a set of empty train tracks and wondering why the train… Read more The Train To Wednesday (Published in Diabolical Plots)
I am not a young girl staring up at the stars, grasping her father’s hand and holding it tight… Read… Read more I Am Not the Hive Mind of Transetti Prime (Published in Nature)
The body lying still in the dirt may have once been human, but there was little left to mark it… Read more The Weight of Silver (Published in Inferno!)
The man who has to die stares at her through the airlock window. And he does have to die–there’s no… Read more The Man Who Has to Die (Published in Factor Four Magazine)
You never want to be on the first arkship. They won’t tell you that at the Travel Bureau or in… Read more A Beginner’s Guide to Space Travel and Seafood (Published in Nature)
“The first lasgun round shattered the window. The second blew a hole through the door…” Incredibly excited to have my… Read more The Emperor’s Wrath (Published in Inferno!)
When he returns to the kingdom, they put a crown on his head. They hold feasts in his name, carnivals… Read more A Hero’s Guide to Fairy Tales (Published in Grimdark Magazine)
They told you the surgery would be painless. That you’d feel nothing as they sawed your skull open and wove… Read more That Electric Feel (Published in Daily Science Fiction)
The wonderful team at F&SF was kind enough to give me some space on their blog to spout about lies,… Read more Interview: F&SF
Fischer manages to combine a break-neck pace, experimental writing, and a solid plot with a definite payoff to the reader… Read more Review: A List of Forty-Nine Lies