Shark Week: An Ocean Anthology
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Dance in a cuttlefish rave. Join a shark as she attempts to build an airship. Attend an underwater ball thrown by crab-aliens. Watch the last Asian dragon perform in a whale and dolphin circus. Listen to a ballad sung by lobsters and whelks. Hunt for a killer shark with two waring ocean races under a tense truce. Ride squid with the Hell’s Anglerfish seal gang.
But above all, don’t forget to bring a wet suit!
Featuring stories by Louis Evans, Allison Thai, Koji A. Dae, Gustavo Bondoni, Nenekiri Bookwyrm, Kary M. Jomb, Huskyteer, Kittara Foxworthy, Daniel Lowd, K.C. Shaw, Willow Croft, Mary E. Lowd, James L. Steele, Su Haddrell, Daniel R. Robichaud, Frances Pauli, Mark Slauter, Jude-Marie Green, and S. Park.
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Ian Madison Keller is a fantasy writer currently living in Oregon. Originally from Utah, he moved up to the Pacific Northwest on a whim a decade ago and never plans on leaving. Ian has been writing since 2013 with nine novels and more than a dozen published short stories out so far. Ian has also written under the name Madison Keller before transitioning in 2019 to Ian.
While he used to be a Certified Public Accountant, these days Ian is focuse on writing on editing. He went back to school in 2018 to get a Certificate in Editing from UC Berkeley.
You can find him online at http://madisonkeller.net or on Twitter @maddiekellerr
S.Park began writing at the age of six, with an illustrated story about Care Bears, published in an eight page edition of one, bound with yarn. He has continued to write ever since, across various mediums and genres, creating everything from fluffy romance to blood-curdling horror, but his favorite genres are science fiction and fantasy. He likes to tell stories that draw on his real life experience as a queer and genderqueer person, telling everyday tales as seen through the "anything is possible" lens of fiction.
Jude-Marie Green has edited for Abyss&Apex, Noctem Aeternus, and 10Flash Quarterly. She attended Clarion West, is a member of Codex, and won the Speculative Literature Foundation's Older Writer's Grant. Her fiction has been published in Daily Science Fiction, The Colored Lens, and Electric Spec. She has a collection of short fiction, Glorious Madness, available on Amazon. Her website is judemarie.wordpress.com
Mark currently lives in Virginia with his wife and two cats. Toward the end of his public service career, he published The Diary Of A Novice Investor: The Bullet Train To Wealth Left When? in 2017. He is currently writing short stories and creating digital art. “Like life, my art tends to come from random and chaotic processes.” He is a member of the James River Writers group in Richmond, VA. He can be found online by searching for Mark Slauter.
Frances Pauli writes books about animals, hybrids, aliens, shifters, and occasionally ordinary humans. She tends to cross genre boundaries, but hovers around fantasy and science fiction with romantic tendencies.
She lives in Washington State with her family, a small menagerie, and far too many houseplants. You can find her newsletter, updates, free fiction and a bibliography at: francepauli.com
Daniel R. Robichaud lives and writes in Humble, Texas. His work has appeared in Sick Cruising, G is for Genies, H is for Hell, Infernal Clock: Inferno, the Flame Tree Press Newsletter (May 2021), and parABnormal magazine. Forthcoming appearances include the Haunts and Hellions, The Howling Dead, and Attack of the Killer ____ anthologies. His fiction has been collected in Hauntings & Happenstances: Autumn Stories as well as the Gathered Flowers, Stones, and Bones: Fabulist Tales, both from Twice Told Tales Press. He writes weekly reviews of film and fiction at the Considering Stories (https://consideringstories.
Su Haddrell is a British writer living in a picturesque and peaceful area of Worcester that's been cleverly disguised as a noisy council estate. She has had stories published by Fox Spirit, Grimbold Books, Phrenic Press and Queen Of Swords Press. In addition to writing, she also enjoys drumming and organises the Lawless Comic Convention. She loves rum, her cats, her partner and movies where things explode within the first 14 seconds. You can find her on Twitter as @CherryBomb1618
Alice "Huskyteer" Dryden's short stories have been published both in and out of the furry fandom, and have won two Cóyotl Awards, two Ursa Major Awards and one Leo Award. She edited The Furry Megapack for Wildside Press.
She lives in south London, owns a motorbike and too many books, and has a black belt in karate. She can bark well enough to confuse most dogs, but has no idea what she's saying to them.
Twitter: @Huskyteer
huskyteer.co.uk
Mary E. Lowd is a prolific science-fiction and furry writer in Oregon. She's had nearly 200 stories and a dozen novels published, always with more on the way. Her work has won numerous awards, and she's been nominated for the Ursa Major Awards more than any other individual. You can read more about the universe in "The Unshelled" in her novels, Tri-Galactic Trek and Nexus Nine, published by FurPlanet. Learn more at www.marylowd.com or read more stories at www.deepskyanchor.com.
Willow Croft is a freelance writer who currently lives out on the prairie but dreams of a home by a tumultuous ocean. She’s had short stories published in Mad Scientist Journal, Speculative 66, Sirens Call eZine, Rock N’ Roll Horror Zine, and in a number of anthologies. When not writing, she cares for some (very lucky) rescued street cats. Come talk all things animals with her at her blog, https://willowcroft.blog.
K.C. Shaw writes fantasy and furry stories as K.C. Shaw and hosts Strange Animals Podcast as Kate Shaw. Find more of her fiction, including her novel Skytown and related short story collection Skyway, at kcshaw.net. She lives in East Tennessee with her lucky black cats, Dracula and Poe.
Daniel Lowd likes dogs, unicycles, and researching artificial intelligence. By day, he is a computer science professor. By night, he is also a computer science professor, because he tends to work odd hours. At various other times (dusk? gloaming? teatime?) he writes a few words of fiction or the occasional song.
At about six years of age, Kittara first saw Disney's Robin Hood; from that point on she was always pretending to be a Fox. At Halloween, she wanted to have a red tail and ears, but her mother talked her into being a cat instead since fox ears and tail were harder to find and more expensive. She found the furry fandom in 1998 through a friend and realized for the first time that she wasn't alone. Kittara has been writing short stories and poems since she was about fourteen however in late 2010-early 2011, writing became her favorite hobby. Since then she's had a few short stories published in various anthologies. She was born in Canada but now lives in Texas with her husband, three dogs and four cats.
Nenekiri Bookwyrm is a dragon that loves writing and making games. He's also been known to paint and play the ukulele on occasion. This particular story would not exist without his roommate, who listened to a cavalcade of possible ideas and helped him settle on a krill. He's been published in Reclamation Project: Year One, Boldly Going Forward, and has two stories featured on the Voice of Dog podcast. You can find more of his writing and other projects on www.nenekiri.com. He'd like to say, from the deepest depths of the ocean: "Curl up with a good book and be kind to yourself."
Kary M. Jomb is a shadow mage who accidentally summoned a wormhole and fell into a twisted, sideways dimension where the animals talk, robots walk among us, and fairies hide in the flowers. She loves daffodils, sparkling water, and dark chocolate. She likes writing in coffee shops but doesn't drink coffee. Kary lives on the side of a hill in a liberal college town in the Pacific Northwest. She wants to thank Mary E. Lowd for her help with this story.
James L. Steele is slowly becoming a stereotypical writer due to his low-paying job he tries to forget about by following his true passion of becoming a wine snob and occasionally writing a novel. And he does it with pride.
He has been printed in numerous anthologies and publications. His Archeons series has been released through KTM Publishing. Visit his blog at DaydreamingInText.blogspot.com
Gustavo Bondoni is an Argentine writer with over two hundred stories published in fourteen countries, in seven languages. His latest book is Ice Station: Death (2019). He has also published three science fiction novels: Incursion (2017), Outside (2017) and Siege (2016) and an ebook novella entitled Branch. His short fiction is collected in Off the Beaten Path (2019) Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011).
In 2019, Gustavo was awarded second place in the Jim Baen Memorial Contest and in 2018 he received a Judges Commendation (and second place) in The James White Award. He was also a 2019 finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest.
His website is at www.gustavobondoni.com
Koji A. Dae is a queer American living in Bulgaria with she/her pronouns and anxious depression. She has work published in Daily Science Fiction, Short Edition, and Third Flatiron, among others. Her first chapbook, Scars that Never Bled: A study of Frankenstein Through Poetry, was released in August 2020. For more information, check out her website kojiadae.ink.
Allison is a Vietnamese-American writer based in Texas. She has anthro fiction published in ROAR, Infurno, Arcana - Tarot, Symbol of a Nation, and Wolf Warriors. Some of her non-anthro fiction stories are featured on Tor.com and Locus recommended reading lists. When she isn’t writing about dysfunctional families, talking animals, and cultures real and imagined, she’s studying medicine and caring for axolotls: her favorite critters and the closest thing she has to Pokemon.
Louis Evans is a writer living and working in NYC. Lordly and mighty and portly is he. Reports of his delicious flesh have been exaggerated by his many hungry enemies. His fiction has appeared in Nature: Futures, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Interzone, and elsewhere; he is online at evanslouis.com and tweets @louisevanswrite
