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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”