"Breaking: A new bill in Congress allows Senator Rubio to revoke U.S. passports for citizens criticizing Israel as terrorism support. Explore the civil rights implications now."

Ahead of a bankruptcy auction to sell Prospect Medical Holdings' CT facilities, Murphy called for CT to ban private equity-owned hospitals.

You can hear me read "Wishbone," from my new collection Patti 209, at 3 p.m. Saturday (August 16) in Room 428 of the Summit building at the Seattle Convention Center (WorldCon membership required). I could freak out about the fact that my reading is in competition with readings by two of the biggest names in science fiction (Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal) or I could breath a sigh of relief that I didn't get relegated to a late-afternoon reading on the final day of the convention or an early-morning reading on the opening weekday.

5/5: This collection of fifteen tales of the very near future is a tonic for right now. Each one is a piece of speculative political fiction mostly featuring protagonists who are middle-aged or older,...

Blame it on DOGE, massive layoffs of humans, outsourcing overseas, or whatever you want, but everything is wrong now. Today was the final straw. I didn't take to social media last week when I spent four hours on the phone with Century Link and Quantum Fiber (their sister company) and Century Link and Quantum Fiber and Century Link and Quantum Fiber.

Want to delight an author whose work you enjoy? Post a three-sentence review of their book (or story) on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Goodreads. I had coffee this week with a fellow author and we noted that while we're both selling books, we're not getting the online reviews that are essential for building reputation and getting the next book (or story) published.

In a week when the federal government ordered troops into Los Angeles and Seattle's police chief said that he expects to be arrested for resisting federal bullies, I invite you to read an excerpt from "Unwanted Visitors." Originally published by B Cubed Press, it's one of the stories in my new collection Patti 209: Fifteen Tales of the Very Near Future…

Here's an excerpt from the short story "The Bodies We Carry" from my new collection Patti 209: Fifteen Tales of the Very Near Future, available now. I'd considered reading "The Bodies We Carry" for the Strong Women, Strange Worlds Zoom event, or at the book launch at the Couth Buzzard June 6, but the story hits too close to home at the moment.

In 2018, I made the rash claim that I could write a story that would make people feel sorry for the 45th president. This led to the short story "Bad Memories, 2032." It appeared in After the Orange, edited by Manny Frishberg for B Cubed Press, and now appears in my new collection Patti 209: Fifteen Tales of the Very Near Future.