“Chickadee” Accepted for Publication
by Frank Ard
My short story “Chickadee” has been accepted for 20Spec: An Anthology of 1920′s-Era Speculative Fiction (that’s a working title as of right now), edited by Jaym Gates and Erika Holt. The story is an adventure about bootlegging and brothers, and is dedicated to my brother, Paul, who passed away last year. It’s rough-and-tumble, just like my brother; I think it’d be his kind of story.
20Spec is to be published by the award winning Canadian press, Absolute XPress, sister to Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing/Tesseract Books.
The collection will be out in the coming few months. Stay tuned.
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We weren’t aware of the tragedy that inspired your story, Frank, and are incredibly honored you chose to share such a meaningful piece with us. I’m very sorry for your loss.
Thank you for the kindness, Erika. I can think of no better place to share the piece; it’s my honor to be part of 20Spec. Working on “Chickadee,” I realized that my brother probably would have been very happy if he’d lived in the 1920s–my version of it, anyway.