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Get Ready for Cirsova Spring 2025!

My short story, Machine Dreams for Wired People along with many other delicious pulp offerings, are now available for preorder for Amazon Kindle, and Lulu Hardcover. A softcover version will also be made available. The magazine is scheduled for release on March 19th, 2025.

Here’s the blurb for Machine Dreams for Wired People, from Cirsova Magazine: A family infiltration team is hired to break into a cybernetic AI factory to rescue the itinerant daughter of a wealthy benefactor before her mind can be liquified!

Machine Dreams for Wired People is my first serious dip into Cyberpunk. I had a lot of fun writing this one, I think it manages to find a way to be both horrific and humous. Like most futuristic horror, it’s absurd, and its supposed to be.

If you like the story, please be sure to leave a review, even a short one can really help!

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Anvil #4 – Pre-orders are Live!

Carl Geyling, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Read me in Anvil Issue #4

I’ve hammered out another short story for Anvil. Pre-orders for issue 4 are currently live on IronAgeMedia. The guys at IronAgeMedia are always great to work with and I can’t wait for you guys to get your hands on this issue! More details to come.

While you’re checking out that pre-order, and if you haven’t already picked one up, don’t miss Issue #2, in print and digital. Anvil #2 features my my short story Afflicted: Nourritures les Ver. Here’s the blurb:

Amélia Mitre is Afflicted. Cursed by a pact of her own making, she is made to follow the Weird Way of Scealfe, God of Death of Decay. Summoned to the industrializing city of Beauanne, the Cursed Doctor finds herself investigating a disturbing disease that defies the laws of nature and therefore, the laws of her dark patron. She must discover the origins of the plague and punish anyone foolish enough to pretend rivalry with the God of Death.  

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Above: Three Workers in the Iron Works. Oil on panel. Carl Geyling, Austrian (1814–1880), founder of Carl Geyling’s Erben a stained glass company.

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Anvil Issue #2 is Funding Now

Shanegenziuk, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Anvil: Iron Age Magazine is no longer funding, but can be purchased “in demand” on Indiegogo. My short story, Afflicted: Nourritures les Ver, will be included in this issue along with a number of comics and shorts by other independent authors like me.

I can only speak for myself, but I am extremely excited about this magazine and my small place in it. I believe Nourritures les Ver will fit comfortably on the shelves of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror fans alike. I hope the blurb below whets you appetite for more.

Afflicted: Nourritures les Ver by Jaime Faye Torkelson

Amélia Mitre is Afflicted. Cursed by a pact of her own making, she is made to follow the Weird Way of Scealfe, God of Death of Decay. Summoned to the industrializing city of Beauanne, the Cursed Doctor finds herself investigating a disturbing disease that defies the laws of nature and therefore, the laws of her dark patron. She must discover the origins of the plague and punish anyone foolish enough to pretend rivalry with the God of Death.

If you choose to support Anvil, let them know I sent you. Your support, no matter how small, helps keep the flame of independent IPs alive and I cannot thank you enough!

My thanks, first and foremost, to God, who likes stories more than I do.

Secondly, the team at Iron Age Media has been great to work with. I highly recommend you check out their website.

And, finally, to the readers, who deserve good stories I hope my small offering fits the bill.

Above: a handful of worms in coffee ground compost, which makes excellent worm food.

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Hail, Iron Age!

Yale Center for British Art, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I’ll be featured in the 2nd issue of Anvil: Iron Age Magazine. Updates are to come, but I expect publication in Fall 2023.

For now, I would direct you to their 1st issue. It’s been fully funded, but you can still use the Indiegogo page to purchase the 1st issue or reach out to campaign directly. Publication for issues one is expected in July 2023.

Anvil promises to be an aggregator of indie IPs, especially drawing from the tradition of pulp fiction and comics. If this is the kind of writing you’re interested in, check out their website for more info.

I haven’t written much about my love of pulp, but when it comes to short stories, I draw much of my inspiration from the greats: Robert Howard, H.P Lovecraft, C.L Moore.

For this latest piece, I tapped into my inner C. L. Moore and wrote a female fantasy hero. But unlike Moore’s Jirel, I lean into the gross-out horror of 18th Century medicine. I want to see Amélia Mitre become a modern pulp hero worthy of my heroes.

Some exciting things are happening for me this year and I’m proud to share it with you. Further details are to come.

Update 07/24/2023: You can preorder Anvil: Iron Age Magazine Issue 2 here.

And, if you don’t already know, my short story, Egg, can be read in Cirsova 14, Spring 2023.

Above: Interior of an Ironworks. Godfrey Sykes (1825 – 1866) British Painter. Oil on Canvas. Housed at the Yale Center for British Art.

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