Tag: short fiction

• Ghost Girl & Reshaping Old Tales

  

  “Ghost Girl” is a queer reshaping of Scandinavian murdered child folktales.

  J. S. Kuiken

  October 2, 2022

  announcements, Blog, meta, publication, short story, writing

  creative writing, fiction, folklore, folktales, ghost story, nightscript, queer fiction, short fiction, short story, writing

• A Little Bit of Smut

  Apparently I have sold two other stories. The ink has maybe kind of dried on the contract, so I’ll just babble about them. I originally wrote the two stories for a colleague. He wanted to start some kind of electronic zine, and I said I’d write some stories for him. I wrote the pieces but…

  J. S. Kuiken

  June 24, 2017

  publication, short story

  erotica, short fiction, short story, trans fiction, trans men

• If Music Be the Food of Love

  Nothing much — just today’s writing soundtrack.

  J. S. Kuiken

  April 24, 2016

  Blog, micropost, writing

  arrivals and departures, Blog, creative writing, fiction, micropost, short fiction, wip, writing

• That unfortunate moment when . . .

  . . . you are neck deep in a longer work of fiction, and a short story from months ago decides to show up and demand attention. (Of course this story couldn’t have shown up when I was actively working on it. Why would it do that.)

  J. S. Kuiken

  April 4, 2016

  Blog, micropost, writing

  arrivals and departures, Blog, creative writing, fiction, five monstrous things / these violent delights, micropost, short fiction, short stories, what the fuck is this shit, writing, writing process

• Whose Skin Am I In

  I love first person present tense. For me it’s the most demanding of any point of view and tense, because it requires the utmost discipline and agility to work effectively. There are plenty of utilitarian examples of first person present tense. The one which springs readily to my mind is The Hunger Games. It was first person present…

  J. S. Kuiken

  March 23, 2016

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  Blog, creative writing, fiction, first person, first person present tense, present tense, short fiction, writing, writing meta

• Let it grow / So we can watch it bloom

  Just a song which has become pretty much the theme song for the story I’m currently working on.

  J. S. Kuiken

  March 23, 2016

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  arrivals and departures, creative writing, fiction, novella, short fiction, wip, writing

• I Learned Proto-Celt for a Reason Dammit

  . . . what do you mean, all the studying and reading I did on Celtic languages and Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain might actually be useful after all?

  J. S. Kuiken

  March 18, 2016

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  arrivals and departures, Blog, creative writing, fiction, novelette, novella, short fiction, short story, wip, writing