Fun fact: Today’s my birthday! My present to you is my newest short story, “The Librarian of Babyl,” published online in the August 2021 issue of Translunar Travelers Lounge. It starts a little something like this:
The clank of a metal-shod staff heralded the arrival of Melnock the wizard to the library of Babyl-no-Ktan.
Ragna, the noontide librarian, looked up from his clay tablet and set aside the daily missive from his superior. He closed his eyes, clenched his teeth, and promised for the thousandth time that he would neither run screaming from the building nor bludgeon Melnock to death with the nearest stool...
Read the rest right here. Or better yet, Click This to see the whole issue! From their website:
“Translunar Travelers Lounge is a biannual speculative fiction magazine that aims to explore the fun side of fantasy and science fiction. In this issue you’ll find a soup-making seneschal of the dead and a teapot that brings self-enlightenment; gods and heroes finding a second life in the mortal world; a librarian dealing with rowdy patrons and a scribe writing for a demanding audience; two people with very different connections to the ocean; companionship in a wishing well and conflict at the border between water and wood; a trip into the desert and a quest to the bottom of the sea; a troublemaking theme song and a union organizing in hell.”
It’s an all-around great issue. Be sure to check it out!
