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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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By Robert Swartwood on November 12, 2009
First off, this post has nothing to do with the no doubt godawful John Cusack film coming out this week. No, this is about the latest issue of Space and Time magazine, number 109, which features my story “End of Our World as We Know It.” This is a special story for me, namely because [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on October 23, 2009
I’ve been extremely busy this past week, which is why it’s been awfully quiet around this here part of cyberspace, but I have a new hint fiction piece up today at the ultra-fine Nanoism. Edited by Ben White, the journal is a “place for twitter-fiction,” which means 99.9% of the time, the story can’t play [...]
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By Robert Swartwood on October 11, 2009
… is now live at Fifty-Two Stitches, which publishes one horror flash fiction piece a week. My story “Dead Weight” can be found here. It can also be found in the annual anthology edited by Aaron Polson, along with fifty-one other stitches. Wanna win a free signed copy? Sure you do. First go read the [...]
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