Project Gateway: a page-turning debut!
Arden Baker, Aurealis Award Winning Author
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- FlashMob: Between the Hearth and the CageFlames gutter amongst the broken hulks, the bones of once-great warships groaning as they sink beneath the rolling swell. It’s early morning, Helios’s rays have yet to burn away the fog, and already the fury of battle seems distant, like a dream. Gulls caw and swoop overhead, picking at the bloody remains of friend and foe alike while I clutch at my shattered oar, teeth chattering and await Poseidon’s vengeance in the eerie silence.
- FlashMob: Be Good To MamaDizzy’s clients are gathered in her private dining room and they’re getting rowdy: slamming back shots of single malt like its water, snorting the latest in bio-engineered psychotropics, cracking jokes and laughing too loud, their voices carrying the hysterical edge particular to men who secretly hate their colleagues, while coveting their jobs, their wives and their mistresses.
- My Most Rejected Story Is Out In The WorldI wrote Chameleon back in 2023 for The Hope Prize (a competition jointly run by Readings and Simon and Schuster, sadly with an absolutely exorbitant $25 entry fee, and a questionable approach to the copyright of the stories authors submit).… Read more: My Most Rejected Story Is Out In The World
- Writers of the Future Volume 42
So, I recently spent a week in Los Angeles hobnobbing with the likes of Kevin J. Anderson, signing books with S. M. Stirling and making a bunch of brand new friends. Why? Because I was lucky enough to win first… Read more: Writers of the Future Volume 42 - I’m now reviewing books for Aurealis Magazine
Pretty much what it says on the tin. Aurealis Magazine is Australia’s oldest and grandest speculative fiction magazine, with ten issues annually, each one choc full of new fiction, articles, essays and book reviews. And, since the start of the… Read more: I’m now reviewing books for Aurealis Magazine
