I am belated in posting about one of these — but it turns out that’s fine, because another one dropped just a couple of days later!

First up is “The Virtues of the Throne,” a piece inspired by the Sanskrit text Siṃhāsana Dvātriṃśikā (rendered in the translation I have as Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya). It leans hard into the kind of rhythmic musicality you might expect from a song — which is why it’s appearing in 4LPH4NUM3R1C, a magazine that makes a point of offering both audio and text versions of its material! (Yes, this is the same place that published “The Great Undoing” a few months ago.)

And second, for a complete contrast, is the free verse piece “Core Sample” in DreamForge Anvil. This one is inspired by a piece of art created by Mark Garlick, and it’s sorta science fantasy-ish.

Thanks to poetry generally being quicker to write than even short fiction, and therefore me having manymany opportunities to sub and sell it, there’s more on the way. But that’s it for now!