Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

  • Story news: Kaiju Rising ebook available for purchase

    The ebook for Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters is available for purchase via Amazon. Along with short stories by writers such as Natania Barron, David Annandale, Paul Genesse, and James Swallow, the anthology also features my lobster kaiju story “The Flight of the Red Monsters.” If you’ve ever wanted to read a story about giant…

  • Highlights from Karin Tidbeck’s Jagannath

    News My short story “The Damaged” is in issue 250 of Interzone. Visit the link Here to check out the other issue contents and, if you so desire, to subscribe. Review This week, I’m briefly highlighting two of my favorite stories from Karin Tidbeck’s collection Jagannath, an interesting collection and one that I recommend for…

  • All this art is from my mom!

    Up there in that slideshow of features story publications, I’ve used a lot of abstract art as the background. All of this art is work by my mom, Jennifer Stufflebeam. I’ve always been heartily impressed by her huge, abstract paintings, and I figure some of you might be, too. (She also owns an art gallery…

  • “The Mammoth” — Ideomancer (December 2013)

    “The Mammoth” — Ideomancer (December 2013)

    My story “The Mammoth” appeared on Ideomancer in December of 2013. First line: “The mammoth skeleton stands in the distance, barely visible below the drooping limbs of monstrous evergreens.” Inspiration: Set in a world populated with the skeletons of extinct animals, “The Mammoth” is about a father and daughter who take a camping trip together,…

  • “The Land of Phantom Limbs” — Flash Fiction Online (January 2014)

    “The Land of Phantom Limbs” — Flash Fiction Online (January 2014)

    My story “The Land of Phantom Limbs” appeared on Flash Fiction Online in January of 2014. First line: “After the grenade went off under him, they had no choice but to cut off Jon’s arm.” Inspiration: In high school I read Johnny Got His Gun. The frantic pace of the narrative moved me to tears,…