M.X. Reo Kelly
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M.X. Reo Kelly

I write because I have an itch in my mind that only a pen can scratch.

Working on novel "The Strange Blue Days of Dr. Fountainbrew." Illegitimate love child of a star mage and a dragon-knight. Drenched in the black ink of my fantasist ancestors .

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Coming Soon in e-book on Amazon!

Four & Twenty Blackbirds: Stories & Poems


A collection of previously published speculative fiction and poetry.

Including:
  • ​​​The Kiing and His Twenty-Three Subjects (the titular story)
  • Planet Retro, Unplugged 
  • Pop Culture Fairy Tale Tweet
  • The ABCs of the Apocalypse
  • The Bloodletter's Tale
  • Smartphone Circa 2069, Brought to You By the Clone of Thomas Edison
  • Bad Day at Bull Funk's
  • elysian seas

and more...

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My novel-in-progress. Here's a brief synopsis:
  • A seemingly ordinary doctor meets an extraordinary group of people:
  • A Goddess who rules the realm of illusion and reality. If she offers a blue marble, it's in your best interest to accept it.
  • A witch's familiar, a man who turns into a broomstick by night (or perhaps he a broomstick who turns into a man by day). The last thing he was expecting was to fall in love.
  • An ostrich man who sells newspapers on the strangest street corner in the world
  • A six-armed girl who delivers newspapers, writes multiple novels simultaneously, and is a superhero in her spare time.
  • A scientist who runs a laboratory/orphanage for folks who are a little different He suffers from autassassinophilia and has erotic fantasies about being murdered by the secret agent who has been targeting the demi-humans.
  • A woman who transforms into a blue jay and flies.
  • A fox-woman who runs an underground tavern in the strangest neighborhood in the world.
  • A man who is bodily experiencing human de-evolution, and has the monkey tail to prove it.
  • A government agent with strange secrets of his own, and orders to take down all of above.
These mysterious people become part of Dr. Fountainbrew's world and within a few days turn it completely upside down. He is faced with a choice to join them, but is not informed of the consequences if he refused.

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2018 Publications include:

Two poems: ">110: To Save the One or the Seven" and "Time Travel Swings Like a Pendulum Do" 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. 



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Recently, my poem "maybe there are" which was published in Star*Line magazine 40.1 was nominated for a Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry "Dwarf Stars" award. I didn't win, but it was an honor to have someone nominate my poem. http://www.sfpoetry.com/ds/18dwarfstars.html

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My poem, "elysian seas," was published over at Abyss & Apex Issue 62:  2nd Quarter 2017: www.abyssapexzine.com/2017/03/elysian-seas/




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Two poems published in the Winter Issue of Star*Line magazine (40.1): "maybe there are" and "Pop Culture Fairy Tale Tweet." 



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Published July, 2015--a drabble: "The New Book on the Shelf" reprinted in The Best of Luna Station Quarterly: The First Five Years








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