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The Time-Traveller’s Lament – Sci Phi Journal

The murder of Father Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin considered as the single men’s Olympics Luge final – Sein und Werden

Blur – Prolescaryet

A Locked Room Mystery – Jersey Devil Press

Grooming my Grandfather – Vastarien Literary Journal

The Bride of the Blob – Andromeda Spaceways Magazine

Mid-life Crisis – Chrome Baby

Born Free – Oklahoma Pagan Quarterly
Podcast at Tales to Terrify #463

KAIJU! – Fleas on the Dog

The final hypotheses of Professor G – Silver Blade

Baby, cold outside – Breach available here and here

Miracle Cure – Liquid Imagination

The gods of the gaps – Three-Lobed Burning Eye

Store in a dark place – Space and Time Magazine

The Big Reveal – Kaleidotrope (1)

Mr Cranky – Sci.Phi Journal

Eat, Pray, Wait – Not One of Us

Crop Rotation  –  At the Edge (2)

Serial Killer Blues – The Literary Hatchet vol. 14

The Boulevardier  –  Love Hurts
Podcast at Pseudopod #753

This Neil Armstrong is not dead  – Cafe Irreal

Some Corner of a Dorset Field that is Forever Arabia  – Three-Lobed Burning Eye (3)
Republished in CHTHONIC: Weird Tales of Inner Earth

The Penultimate Report of Sergeant Burns  – The Grapple Annual

Avoiding Gagarin   – Aurealis Magazine

My Life as a Lizard   – Crossed Genres Magazine (4)

Good Boy   – Regime Magazine of New Writing, Regime 03
Podcast at Pseudopod.

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Mentions in despatches

(1) Shortlisted, Australian Shadows Awards 2017, best short fiction

(2) Honourable mention, Ellen Datlow, Best Horror of the Year 9

(3) Originally published under the pseudonym Lloyd Connor. A “strong dark story” – Ellen Datlow, Best Horror of the Year 7

(4) Honourable mention, Best Short Fiction of the Year, Clavis Aurea in Apex. See the review here.

There is an interview with me in Crossed Genres Magazine

There is an interview with me at Angela Slatter’s blog

There is an interview with me at Breach magazine

A review of “My Life as a Lizard” appears at Apex

A review of “Avoiding Gagarin” appears at Tangent 

A review of “Store in a Dark Place” appears at SFF Reviews

Contact: davidDOTstevensDOTesquireATgmailDOTcom