I have a new story out this week, “The World at the End of the Bar” in the “Inter Librarian Loan” anthology from Air and Nothingness Press. This is my third story with Air and Nothingness, and it’s maybe the strangest story I’ve had published. The story came from a submission call from Todd Sanders, the editor, who reached out to authors who contributed to his previous Librarian anthology calls. The idea was that those authors could opt-in to having their stories used by other authors to tell an alternative version of the original story. A divergence.
I made my story “Three Matches and the Unlit Fuse” from October 2023 available, and I chose to work with Waverly x Night’s “The Bar at the End of the World.” I took the world Waverly created and imagined how the story could have continued and how her character Xoa could have returned from retirement to help his former student save the world she created.
It was a fun experiment, and I think it resulted in a fun story.