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By Robert Swartwood on March 29, 2010
I’m pleased to announce my novelette “Through the Guts of a Beggar” is now available for download. From the introduction: In high school I’d written a horror short story called “In the Tall Grass.” As is the case with almost all of my early work, it evolved through the years and was expanded into a [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on March 15, 2010
David Erlewine is a madman. I say that with the utmost respect. The man works a full-time government job, has a family, and is active all over the Internet at different writing sites. Not only that, he’s constantly producing work. Don’t believe me? Sign onto Facebook in the middle of the night, you’re apt to [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on March 3, 2010
My story “An Insurrection” is up today at Necessary Fiction. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like this story a lot. I’m very happy to have finally placed it, and with such a great market — big thanks to Steve Himmer for not only accepting it, but for helping me make it better [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on March 1, 2010
Ever notice how in almost every magazine’s writer’s guidelines you’ll find the ubiquitous phrase: “We want your best work.” Like that’s really going to stop writers from submitting shitty stuff. Or what — are those writers with the shitty stuff only submitting to the markets that don’t put that in their guidelines? Come to think of it, I think [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on January 24, 2010
The Best of Every Day Fiction Two is now available, which features my story “Incomplete” along with 99 other fine stories published last year at Every Day Fiction. I’m honored to have been included. My thanks to Jordan Lapp, Camille Gooderham Campbell, and Steven Smethurst for not just putting together this collection of stories, but [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on January 18, 2010
My story “Superman’s Dead” is up today at Monkeybicycle. It is another one of my stories written in the second person. I think it will eventually come to the point that all I write are stories in the second person. Fun fact: I like to think my titles are usually pretty clever (or at least [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on December 30, 2009
Back in April, Cooper Renner was kind enough to publish what is probably my strangest piece of flash (okay, hint fiction) called “The Amazing Adventures of © and ®.” At the time, I had joked about doing a sequel. I’d had no intentions. The story was what it was and that was that. But then, as [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on December 15, 2009
My story “The Dry Patch” went live today at Verbicide Magazine. The artwork above (courtesy of Skinny Gaviar) should be a good indication that this is not a happy-go-lucky piece. Read at your own risk.
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By Robert Swartwood on November 25, 2009
I finally received my copies of issue 109 of Space and Time, and was pleasantly surprised (as well as extremely impressed) to see the artwork done for my story “End of Our World As We Know It.” Magazine artwork is always a mixed bag — the artist sometimes doesn’t “get” the story, or because the [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on November 18, 2009
Today my story “Incomplete” — which originally appeared at Every Day Fiction (and which will kindly be reprinted in The Best of Every Day Fiction Two) — has gone live at CellStories. You can click on the link, but if you’re using a desktop computer all you will see is the main site. The only [...]
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