Some days it rains, and then later the sun comes out!

I am thrilled to announce that my story Corrigan's Exchange is currently the Editor's Choice story in the June issue of Semaphore Magazine (www.semaphoremagazine.com/current.html).

Haven't heard of Semaphore? I'm glad you asked.  Semaphore is the only paying short speculative fiction market that I know of in New Zealand.  It was started by an amazing young woman, Marie Hodgkinson, because no one told her she couldn't.  Or if they did, she ignored them, for which I am eternally grateful.  

Marie is also a member of the Core of my SpecFicNZ group, those of us crazies who believe that a New Zealand Spec Fic Writer's organization is not only possible, but a good idea worth sweating blood over. 

Marie assures me that she did not accept my story because I know her (technically we've never met), but because it has babies being dragged through the forest, fairies, psycho psychologists, and despite all that action, she found the prose highly poetic.  Corrigan's exchange is a modern changeling story that will leave you wondering what is real about motherhood, and what is not. 

Let me know if you enjoy it.