Published works.
Pardon the dust and din...working on adding the full CV now...
Many stories and some poetry published, including "still life, with plums" (2014, poem) and "The ABCs of the Apocalypse" (2012, flash fiction). Will get a full CV up here as soon as I can.
2021:
"To Have and to Hold and to Hold and to Hold." Microfic. Queer Sci Fi: Ink annual contest anthology. Release date 8/10/21. Story named Honorable Mention.
"Star Trip(tych)." Poem. The 2021 Rhysling Award Anthology. Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. Reprint.
2020:
"Star Trip(tych)." Poem. Speculative North, Issue 2..
"beyond our wildest dreams." Poem. Scifikufest.
"Age of Oceans." Poem. Illumen. To be published in the JULY 2020 Issue.
"Marital Bliss: Robot Reboot." Poem. Illumen. To be published in the JULY 2020 Issue.
"Fairy Wine." poem. The Fifth Di... June 2020 Issue,
"A Little Sunshine and a Breath of Fresh Air." Microfic. Queer Sci Fi: Innovation annual contest anthology. Release date 8/8/20.
"Fifty Percent of Smartsuits Fit You Perfectly." Microfic. Bards and Sages Quarterly. To be published in the October 2020 issue.
2019:
"Bad Day at Bull Funk's" a flash published in 42Books anthology Strange Stories.
"Hell is a Frozen Tundra" a short story published in the anthology Haunted Life by Alban Lake Publishing.
"Planet Retro, Unplugged" a micro-fic story published in Queer Sci-Fi's contest anthology Migration.
2018:
">110: To Save the One or the Seven" and "Time Travel Swings Like a Pendulum Do" (poems) published in Illumen by Alban Lake Publishing
A reprint story "The Archangel of Downward Spiral" was published in the anthology Fantasy for the Throne: One Sitting Reads which got the attention and praise of Don Sakers, book reviewer at Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.
"Cyborg Hearts Don't Break." Microfic. Queer Sci-Fi's anthology Impact.
2017:
My poem, "elysian seas," was published over at Abyss & Apex Issue 62: 2nd Quarter 2017www.abyssapexzine.com/2017/03/elysian-seas/
Two poems published in the Winter 2017 Issue of Star*Line magazine (40.1): "maybe there are" and "Pop Culture Fairy Tale Tweet.
2016:
On December 15th, 2016, my micro-fiction horror story "Cinnamon & Spice" was published as a QuickFic on Digital Fiction Pub's website: digitalfictionpub.com/quickfic/cinnamon-spice-by-m-x-kelly-horror/
"poem in the shape of a starship" was published in the Summer 2016 issue of Star*Line, one of the magazines published by the Science Fiction Poetry Association
2015:
"The New Book on the Shelf" July, 2015--a drabble, reprinted in The Best of Luna Station Quarterly: The First Five Years
2014:
"still life, with plums." Haiku. Published in 50 Haikus, an anthology published by Prolific Press in March 2014.
2013:
2012:
"The Apprentice's Mother." Short story. Published November 2012 in Sunday Snaps, an anthology by Chuffed Buff Books.
2011:
"Before I Was Numb." Rhymed verse. Published March 2011 in Aoife’s Kiss Magazine.
"Nowhere Land." Short story. Published in Eighty Nine, a Literary Mix Tapes anthology published by eMergent Publishing. October 2011.
2010:
via The Were-Traveler:
"I Heard the Bells." Short story (as Ramsey Lyons). Published
"Snapped." Micro-fiction (as Ramsey Lyons). Published
Many stories and some poetry published, including "still life, with plums" (2014, poem) and "The ABCs of the Apocalypse" (2012, flash fiction). Will get a full CV up here as soon as I can.
2021:
"To Have and to Hold and to Hold and to Hold." Microfic. Queer Sci Fi: Ink annual contest anthology. Release date 8/10/21. Story named Honorable Mention.
"Star Trip(tych)." Poem. The 2021 Rhysling Award Anthology. Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. Reprint.
2020:
"Star Trip(tych)." Poem. Speculative North, Issue 2..
"beyond our wildest dreams." Poem. Scifikufest.
"Age of Oceans." Poem. Illumen. To be published in the JULY 2020 Issue.
"Marital Bliss: Robot Reboot." Poem. Illumen. To be published in the JULY 2020 Issue.
"Fairy Wine." poem. The Fifth Di... June 2020 Issue,
"A Little Sunshine and a Breath of Fresh Air." Microfic. Queer Sci Fi: Innovation annual contest anthology. Release date 8/8/20.
"Fifty Percent of Smartsuits Fit You Perfectly." Microfic. Bards and Sages Quarterly. To be published in the October 2020 issue.
2019:
"Bad Day at Bull Funk's" a flash published in 42Books anthology Strange Stories.
"Hell is a Frozen Tundra" a short story published in the anthology Haunted Life by Alban Lake Publishing.
"Planet Retro, Unplugged" a micro-fic story published in Queer Sci-Fi's contest anthology Migration.
2018:
">110: To Save the One or the Seven" and "Time Travel Swings Like a Pendulum Do" (poems) published in Illumen by Alban Lake Publishing
A reprint story "The Archangel of Downward Spiral" was published in the anthology Fantasy for the Throne: One Sitting Reads which got the attention and praise of Don Sakers, book reviewer at Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.
"Cyborg Hearts Don't Break." Microfic. Queer Sci-Fi's anthology Impact.
2017:
My poem, "elysian seas," was published over at Abyss & Apex Issue 62: 2nd Quarter 2017www.abyssapexzine.com/2017/03/elysian-seas/
Two poems published in the Winter 2017 Issue of Star*Line magazine (40.1): "maybe there are" and "Pop Culture Fairy Tale Tweet.
2016:
On December 15th, 2016, my micro-fiction horror story "Cinnamon & Spice" was published as a QuickFic on Digital Fiction Pub's website: digitalfictionpub.com/quickfic/cinnamon-spice-by-m-x-kelly-horror/
"poem in the shape of a starship" was published in the Summer 2016 issue of Star*Line, one of the magazines published by the Science Fiction Poetry Association
2015:
"The New Book on the Shelf" July, 2015--a drabble, reprinted in The Best of Luna Station Quarterly: The First Five Years
2014:
"still life, with plums." Haiku. Published in 50 Haikus, an anthology published by Prolific Press in March 2014.
2013:
2012:
"The Apprentice's Mother." Short story. Published November 2012 in Sunday Snaps, an anthology by Chuffed Buff Books.
2011:
"Before I Was Numb." Rhymed verse. Published March 2011 in Aoife’s Kiss Magazine.
"Nowhere Land." Short story. Published in Eighty Nine, a Literary Mix Tapes anthology published by eMergent Publishing. October 2011.
2010:
via The Were-Traveler:
"I Heard the Bells." Short story (as Ramsey Lyons). Published
"Snapped." Micro-fiction (as Ramsey Lyons). Published