Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

  • 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…

  • Acceptance in Lightspeed Queer Issue + Publication in EscapePod

    Two bits of great news to report. First, my post-apocalyptic story “Blight” has appeared in EscapePod, the audio SF magazine. Read it here: http://escapepod.org/2015/03/17/ep486-blight/. Second, my story “Trickier With Each Translation” was accepted for the Lightspeed: Queers Destroy Science Fiction special issue highlighting queer science fiction. I don’t normally announce acceptances here, but I’m really…

  • “They Come With the Carnival”

    “They Come With the Carnival”

    On Monday, my short short story “They Come With the Carnival” came out on Daily Science Fiction. Read it online for free here: http://dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon/magic-realism/bonnie-jo-stufflebeam/they-come-with-the-carnival. Just in time for Halloween, this creepy, apocalyptic story was inspired by art from my Art & Words Show. I never participate formally in the show, but every year I’m so…

  • “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 Wanderers” — Clarkesworld (February 2013)

    “The Wanderers” — Clarkesworld (February 2013)

    My short story “The Wanderers” appeared in the February 2013 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine. First line: “We came to your planet because we knew that you, the peoples of Kill Bill and Saw and Vietnam and Columbine Massacre would understand us.” Inspiration: Every year I put together an Art & Words Show. Although I don’t…