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Blog of speculative fiction writer, Tonya R. Moore. Look forward to fiction, spec-fic genre commentaries, reviews, and interviews plus writing tips and insights.
2023-11-10 17:06
Jeffrey Morris is the writer, producer, entrepreneur, and production designer at the helm of Future Dude Entertainment, a premier source for original and captivating, future-focused adventur… Read More
2023-09-26 23:46
The US Copyright Office is conducting “a study regarding the copyright issues raised by generative artificial intelligence (AI)” and the public has been invited to submit comment… Read More
2023-09-16 11:34
On Tuesday night this week, Space Cowboy Books hosted the last episode of this season’s Flash Science Fiction Night. Flash Science Fiction Nights are 30-minute or shorter virtual sessi… Read More
2023-08-31 10:33
Bex Atria: Severed heads weren’t commonplace, even in one of the crime-ridden shantytowns sprawled along the rims of Hegira’s surface canals. Winny frowned, her gut churning as B… Read More
2023-08-30 19:59
I recently had the opportunity to interview Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Joshua Uchenna Omenga, the authors of the forthcoming Between Dystopias: The Road to Afropantheology, a collection… Read More
2023-08-30 19:59
I recently had the opportunity to interview Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Joshua Uchenna Omenga, the authors of the forthcoming Between Dystopias: The Road to Afropantheology, a collection… Read More
2023-08-29 17:58
May 30, 2115 Pony lay on her back in the tall grass. The derelict nearby was once The Kennedy Space Center’s main building. She stared up at the bowl-shaped sky, counted her lucky star… Read More
2023-08-27 14:15
The Arrival Hel stumbled into the kitchen. She managed to make her way over to the sink. She turned the tap on, full force. She squirted a generous amount of dish soap into her palm. The she… Read More
2023-08-03 16:02
St. John didn’t know why she was there, in that brightly lit place. She was naked, laid out flat on her back on the freezing exam table like a corpse prepped for an autopsy. Her vision… Read More
2023-03-12 20:01
Drinking From Graveyard Wells by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu is a haunting collection of darkly magical and modern stories unearthed from Zimbabwean lore and pop culture Read More
2022-12-31 21:09
2022-12-21 16:38
Shingai Njeri Kagunda uses hypnotic yet conversational prose to bring us Nyokabi, a young woman with the heart of a storyteller whose world has been shattered by the suicide of her beloved b… Read More
2022-12-18 17:04
Ginger conjured a river. A cool, dark river. The bottoms of her feet tingled, slipping over smooth rock in the virtual riverbed. She lowered her body into the wetness. Frightened river fish… Read More
2022-11-06 22:32
SF Multiverse (Speculative Fiction Multiverse) is a not-for-profit, quarterly Online Magazine, and Community created for fans and creators of science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature… Read More
2022-10-24 20:03
This is the Full Listing of Books and Short Stories on my reading list that I plan to review. I will be updating this list on a monthly basis. Want your story or book added to this list? Com… Read More
2022-09-20 13:08
2022-09-07 10:51
The Only Poetry I Will Ever Write is a humble selection of poems I’ve written at various points throughout my lifetime. Some are bad. Some are not so bad. Either way, this mini-collect… Read More
2022-08-11 20:43
Voodoonauts is a grassroots collective of enthusiastic Afrofuturist creators geared at fostering community and craft-nurturing among black creatives from all over the world. The brainchild o… Read More
2022-08-05 18:17
Finally, I have a chance to share the best details of my recent interview with Tonia Ransom, a horror author and podcast producer with impressive technical and skills and an enviable gift fo… Read More
2022-06-24 21:36
Today, the Supreme Court gave misogynists and religious extremists full license to police women’s bodies by overturning the American woman’s constitutional right to prevent or te… Read More
2022-06-23 12:35
Drosophila and the Beast by Bryce Baron-Sips is the macabre tale of a student who lacks the gumption to kill a cringe-worthy lab specimen so she takes it home and makes a halfhearted attempt… Read More
2022-06-23 12:35
Drosophila and the Beast by Bryce Baron-Sips is the macabre tale of a student who lacks the gumption to kill a cringe-worthy lab specimen so she takes it home and makes a halfhearted attempt… Read More
2022-06-16 13:44
Published in the January 2021 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine, R.S.A. Garcia’s compelling sequel to her story, The Sun From Both Sides is set in a distant, post-transhumanist future whe… Read More
2022-06-16 13:44
Published in the January 2021 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine, R.S.A. Garcia’s compelling sequel to her story, The Sun From Both Sides is set in a distant, post-transhumanist future whe… Read More
2022-06-03 18:21
Reading Rubyfruit Jungle not only opened my eyes to a completely new world, but also made me acutely aware of the irrationality of the intolerance that runs rampant in Jamaican society Read More
2022-03-11 19:15
If you are that extremely rare person who happens across this post in search of my blog–well, for one thing, I’m absolutely shocked and for another: I’m sorry to say I no l… Read More
2022-02-25 19:11
In this episode of Odes to the Multiverse, Tonya R. Moore presents two original science fiction short stories. The first story is a futuristic Anansi story titled Witch and Spider. The secon… Read More
2022-02-20 21:05
Step off the beaten path. Find that one thing that fills you up with joy and just do it Read More
2022-02-12 09:54
This trailer announces the upcoming launch of Odes to the Multiverse, a little podcast featuring short and serialized speculative fiction. Odes to the Multiverse is a speculative fiction pod… Read More
2022-02-12 03:00
This trailer announces the upcoming launch of Odes to the Multiverse, a little podcast featuring short and serialized speculative fiction Read More
2022-01-31 22:05
We forget the past for fear of the lessons to be learned from the past Read More
2022-01-31 21:14
Triumphant Elegy at the Robot Rebellion's End Read More
2022-01-11 21:00
Somehow, I’ve gotten into a pattern of convincing myself that getting published or recognized for … Read More
2022-01-11 01:35
When earthbound, Alys wore the scars of her vocation with pride. The hardware fused into … Read More
2022-01-09 21:35
Tightrope Cat, the horror short story, was published in audio format by Nightlight Podcast in October 2021 Read More
2022-01-03 12:06
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2022-01-02 22:16
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2022-01-02 22:16
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2022-01-02 21:27
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2021-12-31 23:24
Hel stumbled into the kitchen. She managed to make her way over to the sink. She turned the tap on, full force. She squirted a generous amount of dish soap … Read More
2021-12-31 19:00
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2021-10-04 16:56
All of my short works listed on the Short Fiction and Poetry pages that have been re-published on Medium or Patreon (Public) are free to read online. Stories published on … Read More
2021-08-31 22:23
The second edition of my speculative fiction omnibus, Odes to the Multiverse will be released in January 2022. The collection will include two new stories and heavily edited versions of the… Read More
2021-08-27 19:57
Space Age Musings will be a speculative fiction appreciation podcast exploring infinite possibilities and talking about speculative fiction books, genres, writing, pop culture, science, as w… Read More
2021-08-27 15:17
I decided to get back into personal blogging and article-writing on Medium. I’ve changed my username there to SpaceAgeMermaid. You can now follow my Medium entries at spaceagemermaid.m… Read More
2021-08-20 20:29
Andromeda Five, it seemed, had abandoned Sofie. Endless hours passed, stretching into days. The young Cappellan remained isolated in the medical bay. The invisible bonds that kept her strapp… Read More
2021-08-17 19:47
I currently have two web serialized stories published on Kindle Vella: Sea Witch Song Sea Witch Song is a Lovecraft-flavored sci-fi horror story that takes place on a fictional island in the… Read More
2021-08-17 12:39
A conversation with Managing Editor, Lesley Conner and Editor-in-Chief, Jason Sizemore about Apex Magazine’s 2022 Kickstarter campaign; the synergy sparked by their creative collaborat… Read More
2021-08-17 09:58
Sofie sprang to her feet as Andromeda Five stalked away. Her eyes stung. That searing pain in her ribcage intensified. She couldn’t stand it, the empress brushing her aside. Not like t… Read More
2021-08-16 23:26
One familiar looking plant laden with plump, garnet berries caught Sofie’s eye. The feathery foliage was alien, but the berries resembled a tart variety from Capella. She wondered whet… Read More
2021-08-16 23:20
Sofie glanced down at her communicator and couldn’t help but smile. The empress had summoned her. She sucked in a deep breath and cinched the last fastening of her gown before checking… Read More
2021-08-16 00:44
Twilla’s Beast was hollow-bellied. The lumbering juggernaut, a comfy shelter custom built for her. Light years away from home, they were fighting a war waged in outer space. An enemy w… Read More
2021-08-12 20:16
Debbie Dent wore pastel pink on the day the whole world went straight to hell. That she morning came to the coffee shop where I worked. Batting her fake eyelashes, she humble bragged about h… Read More
2021-06-07 01:51
One familiar looking plant laden with plump, garnet berries caught Sofie’s eye. The feathery foliage was alien, but the berries resembled a tart variety from Capella. She wondered whet… Read More
2021-06-02 10:28
Will MacGregor’s Static opens in a futuristic hole-in-the-wall dive. Set in the mafia-controlled corporate underbelly of future Korea’s metropolis, Static is a fast-paced account… Read More
2021-05-31 14:45
Sofie glanced down at her communicator and couldn’t help but smile. The empress had summoned her. She sucked in a deep breath and cinched the last fastening of her gown … Read More
2021-05-24 16:23
On Sunday evening of May 30, 2021, I will be kicking off my monthly series of live, 30-minute online fiction readings via Zoom. The readings will begin at 7:00 PM … Read More
2021-05-21 19:15
The spoken word version of my free, verse poem titled Lightning went on sale as an NFT on the OpenSea platform last night. If you follow me on Twitter, you … Read More
2021-05-20 18:29
He’s a cliché, the all too solemn, emotionally vampiric type. Burdened by the nose ring, the deviant sex habit, and the penchant for poisoning his patients, he’s the Dr. I… Read More
2021-05-20 14:25
This is a story about that one time I thought I was being chased by a creature from Jamaican mythology called a rolling calf. Please, let me explain: In Jamaican … Read More
2021-03-03 14:55
Love Out Loud is an inspiring book by Natalee Clarke-Richards, Success Coach, speaker, and author. Love Out Loud is an autobiographical reflection on the courage, creativity, and determinati… Read More
2021-03-02 15:23
There is nothing more terrifying than being 42 years old, looking at your own blood test results, and immediately realizing that you could have a heart attack and die at any given moment. Ev… Read More
2021-03-02 01:07
Harnessing happiness is simply inviting joy and a general sense of contentment into your life. It’s having a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction in life. Happiness is a subjective st… Read More
2021-01-28 23:40
Ivy arrived on the ragged edge of a storm. It was wet, wild, and humid in the Myakka boonies. At first, she simply sat there in the borrowed red Corolla, watching the windshield wipers dance… Read More
2021-01-28 22:50
“I don’t have any beautiful memories.” The woman who uttered those words perched on the cracked edge of Nedra’s leather chair with all the grace of a Queen of Sheba… Read More
2020-10-22 22:14
I’m inordinately thrilled to announce my debut as Poetry Acquiring Editor for the phenomenal speculative fiction publication, FIYAH Literary Magazine. FIYAH Literary Magazine is an awa… Read More
2020-10-11 16:43
Sulily sleeps suspended inside a transparent, cylindrical womb filled with luminous blue fluid. Her suit sticks to her body like a second skin and has knobby nodes that run up the length of… Read More
2020-10-11 02:10
I’ve been told that my love affair with words began when I was four years old. I guess I was reading, books, newspapers, and bibles, anything I could get my grubby little hands on, by… Read More
2020-10-10 19:33
Sorry for my recent radio silence. I’m working on building a community facilitating various resources for creatives and when it’s done, I hope you’ll be able to make good u… Read More
2020-10-09 14:33
Hi everyone! Apologies for the recent semi-radio silence. You know that knew community I built, The Read Write Club? I’ve discovered that I could have simply incorporated a more user-f… Read More
2020-10-07 15:38
Below is a sneak peek of this content! “Great,” Hel drawled. “The ghosts of my past seem to be resurfacing all at once. How exactly am I supposed to take this?… Read More
2020-10-02 17:21
Below is a sneak peek of this content! What if you could journey across dimensions? Would you spend nearly two decades slumming it in a backwater world where few believe in magic or even the… Read More
2020-10-02 05:59
Below is a sneak peek of this content! Hel stumbled into the kitchen of her apartment. She managed to make her way over to the sink. She turned the tap on, full force. She poured… Read More
2020-09-28 17:42
Below is a sneak peek of this content! Ivy arrived on the ragged edge of a storm. It was wet, wild, and humid in the Myakka boonies. At first, she simply sat there in the borrowed red Coroll… Read More
2020-09-25 19:47
Below is a sneak peek of this content! Hi everyone!Here's a sneak peek at the Patrons Only community I'm building from the ground up. It's almost ready. Wait. Stop right there. You can't log… Read More
2020-09-23 01:08
Below is a sneak peek of this content! COLLATERAL DAMAGE A sleek black car wound its way along the narrow mountain road. The driver was a dark-haired beauty with blood red lips an… Read More
2020-09-23 01:08
Below is a sneak peek of this content! Oops! Sorry, dear Patrons, for the late night Newsletter Delivery! I just hit "Send" instead of "Schedule" by mistake a little while ago.&nb&hell…Read More
2020-09-23 01:08
Below is a sneak peek of this content! Guys, this isn't the Patron's Only podcast - that's coming soon! This public Podcast was created for the purpose of entertaining and interacting … Read More
2020-09-23 01:08
Below is a sneak peek of this content! Speculative fiction is an umbrella term for all the sub-genres within science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Simple right? Except, it’s not… Read More
2020-09-23 01:07
Below is a sneak peek of this content! Odes to the Multiverse is a collection of punk scifi, space opera, horror & urban fantasy vignettes and short stories featuring cosmic tales of dis… Read More
2020-09-23 01:07
Below is a sneak peek of this content! ST. AUGUSTINEThe old bookshop clung to the back of one of historic St. Augustine’s lesser known streets. The aged building had green… Read More
2020-09-23 01:07
Below is a sneak peek of this content! There Goes a Sunfish “Oh, there goes a sunfish!” a young manatee overhears her mother say. “If only my ugly daughter was at leas… Read More
2020-09-23 01:07
Below is a sneak peek of this content! PRODIGAL DAUGHTERDripping wet from the sea, Cassandra walked back up to her hotel room. She’d taken a ground floor suite with French doors… Read More
2020-04-28 09:31
Will MacGregor’s Static opens in a run of the mill, dimly lit, futuristic hole-in-the-wall dive and immediately conjured up very fleeting impressions of Johnny Mnemonic … Read More
2020-04-10 12:22
Please join me on tonight’s, April 10th, 2020 at 9:00 PM EST (8:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Pacific) episode of the Genesis Science Fiction Radio Show. I will be participa… Read More
2020-04-10 12:22
Please join me on tonight’s, April 10th, 2020 at 9:00 PM EST (8:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Pacific) episode of the Genesis … Read More
2019-12-01 19:13
Blogging has not, as some mistakenly argue, gone the way of the dodo. I spent quite a chunk of the last few days mining the internet and perusing some of the most reputable and helpful blogs… Read More
2019-11-22 01:03
Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece manga will probably end five years from now. So said Oda Sensei himself in a recent interview, according to Comic Book Review and Anime News Network, amo… Read More
2019-11-09 22:00
Have you ever been scared witless, then felt like a fool
when you realized that there hadn’t been any reason to be scared at all?
Have you ever tried walking down a lonely country… Read More
2019-11-05 13:52
Recently, I came across an article declaring that unless you write every day, you’re not a real writer. I’ll tell you right now that I don’t share this article’s sent… Read More
2019-10-27 14:49
One of the challenges that come with trying to serialize a
story on WordPress is keeping chapters organized. There are several ways to
work around this, including custom post types and taxon… Read More
2019-10-08 23:39
“Shut your trap, Mizer!” Bex warned.
“Look what you did,” the bodyless head uttered a nasal whine. “Didja really have to do this to me? It’ll take me… Read More
2019-10-05 05:00
The Lore of Hegira
Imagine a ship so huge, it could swallow Jupiter whole. A ship so ancient, it has witnessed the birth of stars and watched them burn and become black dwarfs. Hegira is… Read More
2019-10-05 04:59
Severed heads weren’t commonplace, even in one of the crime-ridden
shantytowns that sprawled along the rims of Hegira’s surface canals.
Winny frowned, her gut churning when B… Read More
2019-10-05 04:29
I remember the very moment that this story leapt to life as a tiny spark of an idea in my mind. Over a decade ago, Google Wave had just been opened to public beta and many creative writing n… Read More
2019-08-22 12:39
Whips of lightning cracked the dreary night’s fragile shell.
The sea was a harridan, driving away what little warmth was left in the wind. The beastly sky rumbled. The earth trembl… Read More
2019-08-22 03:28
Near the bottom of my homepage are banners presenting options to readers who like my work and want to show some support or appreciation.
If you read it and love it…
The first… Read More
2019-08-16 21:34
For the past several years, there’s been all this hubbub floating around out there. The internet is saturated with self-labeled experts shilling a myriad of conflicting theories of all… Read More
2019-08-11 00:10
Severed heads weren’t commonplace, even in one of the crime-ridden
shantytowns that sprawled along the rims of Hegira’s surface canals.
Winny frowned, her gut churning whe… Read More
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