Category Archives: #saturdayshortstories

Stories from 2,000 to 10,000 words written by io9 community members for sharing on Saturdays.

Roll Calls for 7.28.2011-8.11.2011

Thursday Tales 7.28.2011 City of Walls: Chapter 10, Archnemesis_Goldenhair This episode focuses on Tara’s attempted muggers, the modrpunks. The plague continues to ravage the City’s lower orders, and Bruce’s condition worsens due to corrupted nannites. Believing an illegal A.I. was … Continue reading

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Roll Calls for 7.7.2011-7.16.2011

Thursday Tales 7.7.2011 City of Walls: Chapter 8, Archnemesis_Goldenhair Still shaken by her mugging and news of deadly glitches, Tara returns home, but not entirely empty-handed. With the aid of an old, but significant, book she is finally able to … Continue reading

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Roll Calls for 6.30.2011-7.2.2011

Ghosts, aliens and creatures we only thought we knew abound in a week of ongoing series, hilarious shorts and an original contributor returned. Let the reading (and commenting) commence! Thursday Tales 6.30.2011 City of Walls: Chapter 7, Archnemesis_Goldenhair Tara recounts … Continue reading

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Roll Calls for 6.9.2011-6.25.2011

This is a big one. Three weeks worth of tech, battles, aliens and a vampire. Thursday Tales 6.9.2011 Ancestors, Pt.3, bjeffreyvidt Emith shows his new work to his far more successful brother, Charles. Right away, the critique becomes personal, leaving … Continue reading

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Roll Calls for 6.2.2011-6.4.2011

It’s time for shorts, ongoing tales and a few surprises. You guessed it, it’s Roll Call time! Thursday Tales 6.2.2011 City of Walls: Chapter 5, Archnemesis_Goldenhair After the failed attempt to harvest “beauty nannites” from Tara, she remains unconscious as … Continue reading

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Roll Calls for 5.19.2011-5.28.2011

With this Roll Call I declare us caught up. Only not too loud. If we can keep things rolling on time for the whole month I’ll shout it. For now we invite you to read some great stories, make comments and generally procrastinate (people reading this at work, you know who you are). Continue reading

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Roll Calls for 5.12.2011-5.14.2011

It’s Roll Call time. This week we have a few interspecies misunderstandings, apocalypse and a touch of the supernatural. Catch up on tales you missed, reread ones you loved and leave comments for those hardworking writers out there. Thursday Tales … Continue reading

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Roll Calls for 3.24.2011-4.23.2011

Roll Calls are back! And this is a big one. We have new tales and continuing series, horror, aliens and tech. What more could you want? These story descriptions were made possible by the generous help of Quango-Baud, Shini: R.O.A.C.H., … Continue reading

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Roll Calls for 4.28.2011-5.7.2011

We’re still getting the hang of doing these weekly. This time around we’ve added a note at the end of each blurb to indicate who wrote them. Otherwise it’s just the usual awesome science fiction! Continue reading

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Interview with Bamf.to.NYC

I recently had the opportunity to email/IM/generally chat with J.A. Platt, whom you may know better as “Bamf.to.NYC” over at Io9. A medical animator by day, she took the time out of working on stories about aliens, roller derbies (now all she needs to do is combine the two) and apparently a Victorian Steampunk tale, which I for one cannot wait to read, to answer a few questions.

Myseri: Besides writing, do you have any other hobbies?

Bamf.to.NYC: I read. A lot. And I bake bread from my grandfather’s recipes. I leave most of the running, jumping and shooting to my characters. Continue reading

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