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Dellith's Child

10/20/2012

"Fair is for farmers. This is the sea."

Published In Black Gate #15 Spring 2011, with a really ghostly and wonderful illustration.

It is about seafaring matrilineal clans who never set foot on soil. It did receive very nice reviews from Locus and other readers, and I think it would flesh out into a novel.

However, it is not done gestating in my head yet. These things can take years, sometimes. Sigh.

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THE CROWS OF BEDU

8/11/2012

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"Mom? Can I borrow your recurve bow?"
Felix's mother looked up from her textbooks. The afternoon sunlight made her look more tired and withered than usual.
"Where is your sister?"
Felix gave a twelve year old's shrug. "Dunno. School?"
A look passed between the two which said volumes in familial telepathy. Felix knew his Mom didn't trust Holly with bows and arrows.

Published in 2010 by Pill Hill Press, The Crows of Bedu is my urban fantasy novel about the Greek enchantress Circe, who escapes into the modern day world to create a kingdom of her own. Her first subjects are Felix and his delinquent sister Holly, a loner named Gregory Carmine, and a new girl in town, Sabine. The cover art was done by my illustrator and dear friend, Tamlin Barlowe.

I love this story. It may not be the best book in the world -- a major publisher may have sat on it for four years before abandoning it -- I may not have sold very many copies... but I do dearly love it; and the few others who have read it love it as well. This is a book with its own soul.

And that is what writing is all about.

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The Glass Forest and The Gilded Sky

7/21/2012

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"Just then gaunt Suicide staggered in, and everyone jumped up to greet him heartily because he was usually dead that time of night."

My very favorite publisher, Pill Hill Press, has published three of my stories in their anthologies, and this one in "Pandora's Nightmare: Horror Unleashed" published in 2010 is one of my favorite short stories. This is a story from the point of view of the denizens of Pandora's Box. Did I mention the other contributed stories are great, too? They are.

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Press "1" to Begin

7/8/2012

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"The very first humans were probably non-verbal, but they needed a code to understand their relationships to one another — who was boss and who had to do all the nasty chores. For this code, they created words, as they were illiterate and didn't have computers. Different tribes of people quickly developed different codes: Chinese, Latin, Farsi, Rap ... and all the other languages, you know, that were in the world. "

"Press "1" to Begin" was my second science fiction short-short to be printed in the "Futures" column of
NATURE, 3 December 2009, and was also picked up the following year by Concatenation.

(Yes, that NATURE, and yes, they do publish fiction.)

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Praxitales

7/6/2012

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"I am alive, Hel-ene. I am not definable in words."

"Praxitales" was my first sale, about a dolphin's brain implanted in a human.
I didn't think any editor would go for this, but Warren Lapine of Absolute Magnitude did,
for his Winter 1996 issue, and it then made Locus's "100 Best Science Fiction Stories of 1996."
It was republished in 2008 by Abyss and Apex Magazine, #27.

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Chess's Game

7/4/2012

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"The world's not black and white, you know!"
"Sure it is! Zebras, pandas, orcas ..."
"... soccer balls ..."
"Soccer balls aren't alive, you idiot."

"Chess's Game," my science fiction short-short,
was in the February 2008 "Futures" column of NATURE

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Hi! I am Nye Joell Hardy.
I write science fiction and fantasy. The science fiction makes my head happy. The fantasy makes my heart happy. Oh, and I have started making "Moth Books." Although I sell all these things, none are making me rich. But I'm happy, damn it.

I have listed most of my published stories on this page. If you are actually reading this, I am so jazzed, I can barely ttyyppeeee....

Dellith's Child

THE CROWS OF BEDU

The Glass Forest and The Gilded Sky

Press "1" to Begin

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