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)
  • "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)
    • 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