Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

  • Awards Eligibility 2015

    First, this post is late. I meant to write it sooner–I usually love reflecting back over the past year–but a death in my family slowed my writing to a terrible crawl. I’ve been avoiding much that I meant to do. But an email from Sunil Patel, an editor of Mothership Zeta, with whom I published…

  • Two stories in Eleven Eleven

    Two stories in Eleven Eleven

    I’ve got two stories in the recent issue of Eleven Eleven: “Feeding the Skeleton Cats” and “Tornado Season.” I wrote “Tornado Season” during, well, tornado season, after obsessively checking the TorCon and worrying over the arrival of my storm shelter, after crouching in my hallway with a mattress pad over my head while tornado sirens…

  • “Skeletons” reprinted in audio

    “Skeletons” reprinted in audio

    My story “Skeletons,” which originally appeared in Room Magazine, is in audio form today at GlitterShip! In a world where the skeletons of extinct animals go on walking and talking, a group of friends, all in love with the same woman, go camping. Read it here: http://www.glittership.com/2016/01/19/episode-20-skeletons-by-bonnie-jo-stufflebeam/ Photo: [Dinornis Elephantopus] digital image courtesy of the…

  • “The Damaged” in audio on StarShipSofa

    “The Damaged” in audio on StarShipSofa

    Listen to my dark sci-fi story “The Damaged” on today’s StarShipSofa podcast. “The Damaged” appeared in the January 2014 issue of Interzone and was reprinted online in January 2015 on Story. I wrote this during my time in grad school at Stonecoast. I don’t remember the inspiration, but I do remember when I turned it…