edited by Ziv Wities My name is Yasuko Nagamine and I work for the employment bureau. There’s a monster destroying the city. It used to be the mascot for the organ rental service, Sensation. I guess it still is but I don’t think it’s doing much for their bottom line anymore. Today I’m filing electronic … Continue reading DP FICTION #111A: “Ketchōkuma” by Mason Yeater
All Diabolical Plots stories published in 2023. For our most recent stories, click here! Issue 106 – December 2023 “It Clings” by Hammond Diehl Of course a dybbuk is flat. Flat as a blini. All the easier for that damn ghost to slip under your collar. Of course a dybbuk is colorless. That’s why, when … Continue reading 2023 Stories
Compiled by Hal Y. Zhang, with assistance from Chelle Parker and David Steffen This has been a memorable year for the Hugo Awards. For the last eight years, Diabolical Plots has produced an annual volume of stories from the longer list of nomination statistics: The Long List Anthology. The project started in another memorable year, … Continue reading The 2023 Hugo Award Nomination List (With Links!)
written by David Steffen In 2023 Diabolical Plots published our second guest-edited themed issue, this time for the “Diabolical Thoughts” telepathy theme, guest-edited by assistant editor Ziv Wities. We have been publishing the annual Long List Anthology since 2015. In 2021 there was a hiccup in the schedule due to WorldCon timing that pushed that … Continue reading 2023 Retrospective and Award Eligibility
In Loving Memory of Mikko SteffenBorn November 1, 2007Adopted May 24, 2008Died May 8, 2023 This is the story of a dog who has been a part of our family for fifteen years and connected all of the other dogs we’ve ever had. This is the story of a miracle dog who beat the odds … Continue reading In Loving Memory of Mikko Steffen
edited by Phoebe Wood and David Steffen It’s a Kool-Aid summer. We’ve gone through grape and cherry and fruit punch and blueberry. Even tried dying our hair with them. And for about three days we had pink and blue and purple strands. Didn’t turn out in Finley’s. Her hair is too dark, but she tried. … Continue reading DP FICTION #101A: “Glass Moon Water” by Linda Niehoff
This story is part of our special telepathy issue, Diabolical Thoughts, edited by Ziv Wities.Click here for the entire Diabolical Thoughts transmission. For the first thirteen years of her life, the planet was silent. No birdsong. No construction. Only the gentle sway of an ocean pushing and pulling against the aqueous humors of her left … Continue reading DP FICTION #97D: “A Girl With a Planet In Her Eye” by Ruth Joffre
This story is part of our special telepathy issue, Diabolical Thoughts, edited by Ziv Wities.Click here for the entire Diabolical Thoughts transmission. The desert had been trying to kill her for two days. Gently. Lovingly. Come drink. The water is cool and sweet. The desert’s voice sounded deep in her mind, deeper than the ocean. … Continue reading DP FICTION #97C: “The Desert’s Voice is Sweet to Hear” by Carolina Valentine
by David Steffen In Loving Memory of Violet SteffenBorn November 24, 2007Adopted December 20, 2012Died April 26, 2022 This is the story of a gentle loving dog who lived a long happy life with her family. This is the story of Violet the lavender merle Pomeranian. Violet’s Life Bringing Her Home Our papillon Aria passed … Continue reading In Loving Memory of Violet Steffen
edited by Ziv Wities Mapmaker Sayya draws maps in a florid script, each route a beautifully written sentence full of allusive meanings to guide people through the city and to bind the changing streets, for a moment, into predictability. Goose watches (the) mist (that) gathers over (the) sea, she gives to one client to guide … Continue reading DP FICTION #91A: “The Grammar of City Streets” by Daniel Ausema
