A shot in the dark... of SPACE

[radiantfracture]

I am in search of microfiction-length (1-2 paragraph) speculative fiction / wonderworks by Indigenous authors for a lesson on the genre.

I want to delight my students but I need to refrain from piling more reading on them.

Any recs?

Comments

[sovay]

Any recs?

Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet Native American writer of primarily horror and weird fiction) has an entire collection of microfiction: States of Grace (2014).

[radiantfracture]

YOU ARE GREAT

[sovay]

YOU ARE GREAT

You're welcome!

(I recommend Jones' work in general. He is also a delightful person to be on panels with, as I have had the pleasure of doing.)

[radiantfracture]

I see that I have read Mapping the Interior, possibly at your suggestion.

[sovay]

I see that I have read Mapping the Interior, possibly at your suggestion.

It is entirely plausible. Also, cool!

[radiantfracture]

...You haven't got a copy, I suppose?

[sovay]

...You haven't got a copy, I suppose?

I don't, I'm sorry. Has it done something inconvenient like go out of print?

[radiantfracture]

I don't think so -- I just left this too late for the next class (tomorrow). I was very last-minuting this. Still, if I get a copy I can share something next week and they'll still like it. I just wanted to look cool for Friday.

[sovay]

I just wanted to look cool for Friday.

You'll still look cool next Friday! I didn't realize there was a time constraint.

[radiantfracture]

It all worked out. I gave up and therefore found a personal story online of a woman who encountered a creature up north, so I told them that, with spooky voice and sound effect (knocking on the wall for knocking on the ice.)

[sovay]

I gave up and therefore found a personal story online of a woman who encountered a creature up north, so I told them that, with spooky voice and sound effect (knocking on the wall for knocking on the ice.)

Cool! That sounds effective to me.

I just discovered this magazine, whose archives may or may not be of use to you.

[sonia]

So cool to see this conversation! I just saw a suggestion in another context to write to authors and [politely!] ask for what one needs, so you could try asking Stephen Graham Jones for a microfiction or two by email. I imagine he would be supportive especially if you also put in a book order. (Probably you already thought of this!)

[sovay]

Most of Darcie Little Badger's (Lipan Apache, multi-flavor SFF) short fiction is too long for your purposes, but I personally am delighted by "Robo-Liopleurodon!"

[radiantfracture]

Well, for another year, excellent.