Mario Milosevic

FictionDaily posts links to three stories every day from around the web. Today they’re featuring my recent tale “28 Ways to Look at Illness.“

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Most of us at some point have to contend with failures in our health. It’s not a pleasant subject to contemplate, but unpleasant subjects are often doorways to literature. A while ago I explored the subject off illness and how it hurts people and relationships. The result was a story composed of short vignettes. Annalemma, [...]

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qarrtsiluni is a nifty little online magazine which has been very friendly to my work. They’ve published three of my pieces so far. The latest, which went live today, is “Moleskin,” part of the current theme, New Classics, which asked contributors to re-imagine classic works of art, classic objects, classic themes, classic anything. I chose [...]

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I am very pleased to announce that the fine people at the Speculative Literature Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting literary quality in speculative fiction, has done me the honor of naming me this year’s recipient of their Older Writers Grant. I can’t pretend any longer: my prodigy days are definitely over!

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Lidija Beatović, one of the editors at Art-Anima, a website devoted to Serbo-Croatian writers of the fantastic, saw my story in Interzone and liked it so much she asked to interview me. I agreed, and the result is here. She even translated it into Serbo-Croatian. Read that version, if you can (I can’t), here.

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That’s not a typo in the title. I really do have a story called “The Untied States of America” and it’s in the current issue of Interzone, the cool magazine that’s been the standard bearer of sf and fantasy short fiction in the U.K. for many years. I am seriously chuffed that they have published [...]

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The fine folks at sfreader.com ran a short story contest last year, and, hey, looks like I took first place with my speculation on the ramifications of getting yourself frozen for posterity. The story is titled “Cold Comfort” and you can read it for free here.

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I was at the local grocery store, buying a new broom. As the checker scanned it she said: “Oh, a new car!” I said, “Yup, I’m driving it home right now.” She said, “I didn’t know they let guys do that.” I said: “They don’t, but some of us do it anyway.” Ha. She laughed and laughed. We [...]

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My latest short story just appeared in Emerald Tales, a charming magazine dedicated to publishing short stories of all genres. The latest issue, (free pdf here opens in a new window) challenged each author to begin a story with the sentence “It was a bright and sunny day.” My contribution concerns a particular owl and [...]

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This is shaping up to be a good writing year for me. I just got my copy of the spring issue of Space and Time which has my latest short story, “Parallel Moons.” Space and Time published my very first short story back in 1984 so I have considerable affection for this venerable and scrappy [...]

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