Stewart C Baker - Creative Works
Pieces are listed in reverse chronological order by date of first publication. See also my list of Published Fiction in Other Languages.
Forthcoming
- "Cut-Rate Couples Weekend at the Witch House Inne and Tavern (9 reviews)"
Galaxy's Edge, September 2017
- "Kuriko" (fantasy)
Tales of the Sunrise Lands, summer 2017
Pre-order
- "Opening Night at La Carpa" (sci-fi)
Sky Castles: An Anthology of Diverse Worlds
- "Something on Your Mind," co-authored with Gareth D Jones, Anatoly Belilovsky, Robert Dawson, Kate Heartfield, Holly Heisey, CL Holland, Laurie Tom, and Deborah Walker, (sci-fi)
Kaleidotrope
2017
- Doge Coefficient (flash, sf), Remixt 2.3, July 2017
Read online
- What She Left Behind (flash, fantasy), Remixt 2.4, July 2017
Read online
- "The Monsters Your Mother Still Asks About"
Great Jones Street,
May 2017 - Read online
- "The Thing About Heisenball" (sci-fi, flash)
Daily Science Fiction, April 4, 2017 - Read online
- "Sharp as Sunrise" (literary)
Princess Fairy Tale Anthology, Fantasia Divinity, April 2017
Buy on Amazon
- "The Abbot's Garden" (sci-fi, novelette)
Bards & Sages publishing, March 24, 2017 - Buy on Amazon
- How I Became Coruscating Queen of All the Realms, Pierced the Obsidian Night, Destroyed a Legendary Sword, and Saved My Heart's True Love," co-authored with Matt Dovey as Baker and Dovey, (fantasy, humour)
2016
- "Proceedings from the First and Only Sixteenth Annual One-Woman Symposium on Time Manipulation" (sci-fi, flash)
Time Travel Tales from ChappyFiction (November 30th) - Buy on Amazon
- "Fallinghome: A Reevaluation" (sci-fi, metafiction)
Big Echo SF, Autumn 2016 (November 1st) - Read online
- "The Plumes of Enceladus" (sci-fi)
Abyss & Apex, Q4 2016 (October 1st) - Read online
- "Five Recipes You Can't Live Without" (fantasy, flash)
Spirit's Tincture, August 2016 - Read online
- "The View from Driftwise Spindle" (sci-fi)
Intergalactic Medicine Show, July 9 2016 - Purchase access to the issue
- "Images Across a Shattered Sea" (sci-fi)
- Writers of the Future, volume 32, May 4 2016 - Purchase a Copy
- Sub-Q Magazine, July 11 2016 (interactive version) - Play/read online
- The Overcast, December 27, 2016 (audio version) - Listen online
- Kasma SF, November 1 2016 - Read online
- Best Vegan SFF of 2016, Metaphorosis Books, April 22, 2017 - Buy on Amazon
- Great Jones Street, April 2017 - Read online
- Quickfic, forthcoming
- "Just Another Night at the Abandoned Draft Bar and Grill" (meta-fiction, humour)
2015
- "Excerpt from the Diagnostic and Necromantic Manual, 5th Edition Regarding the Departed" (sci-fi, flash fiction)
The Sockdolager, Winter 2015
Read at Sockdolager
- "Elements of a Successful Exit Broadcast" (sci-fi, Microfiction)
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, November 2015
Read at Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
- "Fugue in a Minor Key" (sci-fi, short story)
- Galaxy's Edge, November 1, 2015
- Great Jones Street, April 2017 - read online
- "Love and Relativity" (sci-fi, flash)
- "Concerning Your Recent Creation of Sentient Horse-things on the Next Planet Over" (sci-fi, flash)
- "Masks" (sci-fi)
- "Configuring Your Quantum Disambiguator" (sci-fi, humour, flash fiction)
Nature Magazine's "Futures", February 4, 2015
Read at Nature - Author Commentary
- "Some Salient Details About Your Former Lives" (slipstream, flash fiction)
Plasma Frequency, January/February 2015
Read at Plasma Frequency
- "Nikumaroro, July 1937" (literary/surrealist, flash fiction)
Fine Linen Magazine, January 2015
2014
- "Little More than Shadows" (literary/speculative, flash fiction)
- "The Mother of Sands" (horror, short story)
- Tales of Mystery, Suspense & Terror, October 31 2014 - out of print
- QuickFic, May 17 2016 - Read Online
- "The Robotic Poet Reads Basho" (literary/speculative, meta-fiction)
Beyond Borderlands, September 23 2014
Read at Beyond Borderlands
- "They Come in Waves" (horror-ish, flash fiction)
Freeze Frame Fiction, July 1 2014
Read at Freeze Frame Fiction
- "Subtle Vibrato" (science fiction, microfiction)
SpeckLit, May 11 2014
Read at Specklit
- "Ascension" (science fiction, microfiction)
Plasma Frequency, April/May 2014
Purchase a copy (print or ebook)
- "Homecoming" (science fiction, microfiction)
SpeckLit, April 7 2014
Read at Specklit
- "Oubliette" (science fiction, flash fiction)
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Flash Fiction Online, April 1 2014
Read at FFO
- QuickFic, forthcoming
- "Butterflies" (science fiction)
- Spark: A Creative Anthology, January 1, 2014 - Purchase a copy
- Strange Constellations (as "The Butterfly Disjunct"), August 12, 2016 - Read online (CC-BY-NC)
- "Selections from the Aarne-Thompson Index for After the End of Things" (meta-fiction)
2013
- "Raising Words" (historical fantasy, flash fiction)
- Penumbra eZine, July 2013 - out of print (ebook only)
- My website, May 2014 - Read online
- MedusPod, February 2015 - Listen online
- "Behind the First Years" (science fiction)
- COSMOS Online, 28 May 2013 - Read online
- Science Fiction Short Stories from Flame Tree Publishing, September 30, 2015 - Order a copy
- StarShipSofa, September 1, 2015 - Listen online
Selected Older Fiction
- "Island Song" (historical, surrealist)
RipRap, Spring 2012
- "Memory Book" (mainstream, flash fiction)
Every Day Fiction, 4 May 2011
Read at EDF
- "Captain Invincible" (superhero, micro-fiction)
- "They Kiss" (microfiction)
Nanoism, 15 September 2010 - Read online
- "Against the Dark" (flash)
Journal of Microliterature, August 29, 2010 - Read online
Poetry
Anthologies & Collections
Longer Poems
Individual Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka
- "the afterimage"
Skylark, Winter 2015
- "standing stones"
Chrysanthemum, October 2015
- "tide pool stars"
Frogpond, Autumn 2015
- "mud pies"
"his promise"
"sometimes all I want"
A Hundred Gourds, September 2015
- "I learn to tell"
Modern Haiku, Autumn 2015
- "an argument"
Modern Haiku, Winter/Spring 2015
- "a hawk"
"river fog"
"sunlight"
Bamboo Hut, December 2014
- "another lunch-time walk"
"revolution again"
Haiku Per Diem, November 2014
- "jackdaw"
Frogpond, Fall 2014
- "cold moon rising"
"notice of default"
"they will grow up"
A Hundred Gourds, September 2014
- "starlight"
Skylark, Summer 2014
- "out of one fog bank"
Frogpond, Summer 2014
- "last sunset"
Haiku Presence, Summer 2014
- "a room full of boxes"
MOONGARLIC, June 2014
- "a debate"
"Three Arch Rocks"
"were I to pass"
A Hundred Gourds, Summer 2014
- "woodsmoke"
tinywords, May 30, 2014
- "reading Takuboku"
Asahi Haikuist Network, April 4 2014
- "between"
"seen from beneath"
Kokako, March 2014
- "another winter"
"narcissus blooms"
"the chill"
"what does it matter"
A Hundred Gourds, March 2014
- "a distinct lack"
"road map"
Modern Haiku, Winter/Spring 2014
- "wilderness park"
Shamrock, January 2014
- "another summer"
"getting everything"
"today"
A Hundred Gourds, December 2013
- "runcible moon"
Bones, December 2013
- "another talk"
Frogpond, Fall 2013
- "skywriting"
"trickle-down economics"
"underneath"
Prune Juice, November 2013
- "unemptied garbage"
Acorn, Fall 2013
- "sepia moon"
"stray cats"
Crysanthemum, October 2013
- "alone at sunset"
"backlit afro"
"boiling pot"
"fireworks"
"foreclosure sign"
"hawk-spur moon"
"midsummer storm"
"potato salad"
"spring festival"
Under the Basho, Fall 2013
- "always"
"fresh-raked coals"
"marina sunset"
"shadows"
A Hundred Gourds, September 2013
- "served with a sprig of mint"
Heron's Nest, Fall 2013
- "all the things"
Frogpond, Summer 2013
- "election day"
Modern Haiku, Summer 2013
- "b'ak'tun"
Heron's Nest, June 2013
- "edged with wildflowers"
"orchid tree"
A Hundred Gourds, June 2013
- "spring cleaning"
Acorn, Spring 2013
- "fantasy story"
"finally sent her"
Prune Juice, July 2012
- "Contact!"
42 Magazine, Fall 2012
- "low on money"
Prune Juice, Winter 2012