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Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories

The Logorrhea anthology is now available for pre-orders from Amazon. I’ve got a story in it called “Softer” which is a departure for me, because it isn’t a science fiction story. The idea was to choose a winning word from the Scripps National Spelling Bee and compose a story based around it. I chose “macerate.”

I’ve already read a couple of the other pieces, and it should be a good read. Here’s the list of contributors:

• Hal Duncan – “The Chiaroscurist”
• Liz Williams – “Lyceum”
• David Prill – “Vivisepulture”
• Clare Dudman – “Eczema”
• Alex Irvine – “Semaphore”
• Marly Youmans – “The Smaragdine Knot”
• Michael Moorcock – “A Portrait in Ivory”
• Daniel Abraham – “The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics”
• Michelle Richmond – “Logorrhea”
• Anna Tambour – “Pococurante”
• Tim Pratt – “From Around Here”
• Elizabeth Hand – “Vignette”
• Alan DeNiro – “Plight of the Sycophant”
• Matthew Cheney – “The Last Elegy”
• Jay Caselberg – “Eudaemonic”
• Paolo Bacigalupi – “Softer”
• Jay Lake – “Crossing the Seven”
• Leslie What – “Tsuris”
• Neil Williamson – “The Euonymist”
• Theodora Goss – “Singing of Mount Abora”
• Jeff VanderMeer – “Appoggiatura”