Alan Vincent Michaels • Speculative Fiction Author and Poet • Stories

Bibliography
Stories

This list includes my published short stories, including both speculative fiction and literary fiction, either in print, ebook format, or online editions.

See Bibliography: Online anthologies for more information.

See my (incomplete) entry in the ISFDB – The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?163302

2023

BEGIN EACH DAY ANEW
SciFanSat – Issue 1: Begin (Blue Boar Press; e-magazine; 26 Aug; online only)

TOURISTS!
Aethereal Engineer – "Advocate": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 30 Jul; online)

THE LAST SCIENCE FICTION STORY (Dramatic Podcast Version)
Dark Matter Audiolab < on Podbean; also available on most podcast platforms (podcast; 05 Jul; online)
Note: This is an audio-only, dramatic presentation of the story published originally in the 01 Oct 2021 issue of Dark Matter Magazine.

2022

HUMANS!
Aethereal Engineer – "Theory": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 04 Dec; online)

THE FINE PRINT
Aethereal Engineer – "Perfect": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 20 Nov; online)

BOOK OF JOINING (excerpt from "The New Alien Bible" by Alan Vincent Michaels)
Aethereal Engineer – "Cleave": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 02 Oct; online)

ASH
Aethereal Engineer – "Ash": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 07 Aug; online)

"HOME"
Aethereal Engineer – "Brilliant": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; published 04 Aug; released 17 Jul; online)

"THE 800-POUND ALTARIAN BLOODWORM"
Aethereal Engineer – "Yearn": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; published 02 Aug; released 24 Jul; online)

2021

"I CAN GIVE NO MORE!"
Aethereal Engineer – "Give": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 26 Dec; online)

"TO BE, OR NOT TO BE? – AN ACTIVATION QUESTION"
Aethereal Engineer – "Active": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 07 Nov; online)

THE LAST SCIENCE FICTION STORY
Dark Matter Magazine (01 Oct; print, ebook (multi-format) , and online)

"A LASTING EGOCENTRICITY"
Aethereal Engineer – "Complete": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 01 Aug; online)

"BIRTH OF A STARSHIP"
Aethereal Engineer – "Uncertain": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 04 Jul; online)

"RĀ"
Aethereal Engineer – "Partner": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 27 Jun; online)

"THE LOOPS"
Aethereal Engineer – "Loop": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 16 May; online)

"I HAVE A TALENT FOR ESCAPING DISASTERS"
Aethereal Engineer – "Talent": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 09 May; online)

"GRAVITY IS HEAVEN'S LANGUAGE"
Aethereal Engineer – "Dance": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 18 Apr; online)

2020

"FISH TACOS"
Aethereal Engineer – "Imagine": A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation (anthology; 20 Dec; online)

2019

WE'RE NOT ALONE ANYMORE
A Flash of Dark: Vol. 3 (The Writer's Den; anthology; 28 Aug; print)

2013

LOVE LOST
R-SPEC: "The Future of Literary Forms: Flash Fiction, Hyperfiction, and Virtual Worlds" (Particle | Wave Press; 05 Mar; print)

2010

FADS (or Why Jerry Loathes the Aliens)
2034: Writing Rochester's Futures (R-SPEC Press; anthology; July; online)

1980

NOT ALWAYS EASY COMES DEATH
InDecision (magazine; print)

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