Short Story Challenge Update - 31 / 52
By Mark McClure 25 February 2020
Short Story Challenge Update - 31 / 52

Yes, COVID-19 is ‘alive’ and doing what novel viruses do best, I guess - spread itself around far and wide while keeping below humanity’s detection radars....

Short Story Challenge Update: 31-52
By Mark McClure 22 October 2019
Short Story Challenge Update: 31-52

My challenge to write fifty-two short stories in fifty-two weeks ended on the 8th October. How quickly the year flew by!...

Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers, NI
By Mark McClure 05 April 2019
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers, NI

This post’s a shoutout for the outreach efforts of Northern Irish science fiction and fantasy writers. I am honored to be a member of this group....

Fiction Short Story Challenge Update - 31 out of 52
By Mark McClure 22 October 2019

Short Story Writer’s Journal: (May contain spoilers) Short story #31 continues with the supernatural theme, possibly a subconscious spinoff from finishing up a Richard Matheson - Best of short story collection.

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Fiction Short Story #29: The Drone Trader
By Mark McClure 23 September 2019

Short Story Writer’s Journal: (May contain spoilers) Drone was the prompt for this story, and with the recent events in the Middle East this could have ended up as a story with a military angle.

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Fiction Short Story #28: Trapped in the Cookie Jar
By Mark McClure 22 September 2019

Short Story Writer’s Journal: (May contain spoilers) This one emerged from a story idea I had a few years ago about a pair of floating eco-cities somewhere in the equatorial Pacific region (the assumption being that typhoons would be unlikely).

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Rediscovering the wonder fascinates me as a writer. And that’s probably why science fiction’s my genre of choice. Unknown worlds that intrigue me include:

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