Shining Moon Episode 29: YA and Middle-grade Fiction

Note: There are some audio problems in this episode that I have been unable to correct. My apologies.

David Anaxagoras is a writer and former teacher from southern California. His short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed and The Dread Machine. He is the creator and co-executive producer of the Amazon series Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, for which he received a WGA Award nomination. He currently lives in Texas (but not on purpose) where he's at work on his second middle-grade novel. Visit his website at davidanaxagoras.com.

Alicia Hilton is an author, editor, arbitrator, professor, and former FBI Special Agent. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Creepy Podcast, Lovecraftiana, Neon, Vastarien, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 4, 5 & 6, and elsewhere. Her website is https://aliciahilton.com. Follow her on Twitter @aliciahilton01 and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alicia.hilton.161/

Nicole M. Wolverton is the author of the upcoming young adult horror novel A Misfortune of Lake Monsters (July 2024) and the adult psychological thriller The Trajectory of Dreams (2013). She served as Editor of Bodies Full of Burning (2021), an anthology of short horror fiction through the lens of menopause and is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer of short stories and creative nonfiction. Nicole’s work has been published in over forty anthologies, magazines, and podcasts.

Stories covered in this Episode:

David Anaxagoras

 “The Boy Who Ran from His Faerie Heart,” Lightspeed, August 2023 (Issue 159)
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-boy-who-ran-from-his-faerie-heart/ 

“We Shall Not Be Bitter at the End of the World,” Lightspeed, January 2024 (Issue 164) https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-shall-not-be-bitter-at-the-end-of-the-world/

Alicia Hilton

“Perfumer in Purgatory”, Dreamforge https://dreamforge.mywebportal.app/dreamforge/stories/show/the-perfumer-in-purgatory

“Evolution” first published in the anthology Annihilation Radiation, and will be reprinted in the AI, Robot anthology from JayHenge.


Nicole M. Wolverton

 "From Shore to Sea" was originally published in the Autumn 2023 issue of The Colored Lens. 

“The North American Guide to Animal Slaughter” was originally published in the December 2020 anthology Slashertorte.

Premee Mohamed 

“From the Journal of Sawyer L. Gibbs, Hero, Aged 13 ½," Small Wonders:   https://smallwondersmag.com/pieces/from-the-journal-of-sawyer-l-gibbs-hero/ 

"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov

Piano music for closure

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