“The Urchin’s Dark Kite” at A Fly in Amber
Hey!
I just noticed that my story “The Urchin’s Dark Kite” is now live in the May 2008 issue of the online fiction magazine A Fly in Amber. Woo.
Please go read it, and enjoy.
posted by mjd 
in HM, News, Writings | 7 Comments »
Congrats! I’ll have to remember to catch that.
Cool!
Cool story, Mike. For my curiosity, in what ‘era’ of the DeLuca was this originally written?
Thanks, all!
Erin, it was written in late 2004, during the post-horribble-epic-F-novel/pre-Odyssey era of the DeLuca. It sat in the trunk for a good long while, and has been through 2 or 3 significant revisions since it came out again, but a few of the hallmarks are still there—note the flagrant violation of Odyssey rule #371b in the third paragraph, where I use the verb “watched” no less than 4 times.
I am a stubborn bastard.
Again, cool.
Always good to sell those stories. Your writing style is of course immediately recognizable, and I also knew it was a DeLuca story because about midway through I had no idea what was going on. 
But by the end I think I figured it out, and was enjoying the glimpse into the abstract but highly intentional alternate world.
I didn’t even notice the “watched”s. =P
I don’t think I knew you went through an epic F novel phase. I’m about 3/4 of the way through a rather strange mishmash collaboration between James Mallory and Mercedes Lackey, in the horrible epic F novel milieu, and will no doubt have fruminous thoughts on it soon, and the respective and conflicting values of storytelling vs writing…
Congrats! I look forward to reading it soon.
Deluca rocks. ‘Nuff Said.