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Aethereal Engineer (Now Closed)

The Aethereal Engineer compilations, hosted by Jason H. Abbott @SciFanSat, provide writers with an opportunity to create speculative microfiction stories or poems inspired by weekly Twitter #SciFanSat single-word prompts.

To date, I've had 75 unique (81 total) poems and microfiction stories published in this now closed, online anthology, including numerous haiku sequences.

2023

81	30 Jul	Tourists! (ADVOCATE)	Story
80	23 Jul	...Together (STEP)	Haiku Triptych
79	16 Jul	When Is a Bean Not a Bean? (REVOLT)	Haiku Triptych
78	02 Jul	Alien Interchanges (INTERCHANGE)	Tanka
77	25 Jun	What is Science Fiction? (REJECT)	Haiku Triptych
76	11 Jun	critical thought lapse (EXTRACT)	Haiku Triptych
75	07 May	WriterBot's Secret? (LEARN)	Haiku Sequence
74	16 Apr	Our Crystal Armada (TRANSPORT)	Haiku Triptych
73	09 Apr	Cephalopod Bonds or Nothing's Thicker Than Blue Blood (CERTAIN)	Haiku Triptych
72	02 Apr	The Littlest Robot (FUNNY)	2 Haiku
71	19 Mar	My Forever Home (SPRING)	Haiku Triptych
70	05 Mar	"The Phobos Rover" (STORY)	Haiku Triptych
69	26 Feb	"sentient plants abound" (TOP)	Haiku
68	19 Feb	Where I Go, Therefore I Am (TRANSPLANT)	2 Haiku
67	12 Feb	"Her vision pure love" (COMBAT)	Haiku
66	05 Feb	"A.I. was the dream" (RESENT)	2 Haiku
65	29 Jan	"Best Hero Robot" (BOW)	Haiku
64	22 Jan	Aftermath (RETAKE)	Haiku Triptych
63	15 Jan	Here Be Dragons (BALANCE)	2 Haiku

2022

62	11 Dec	"I fly to the stars" (FLY)	Haiku
61	04 Dec	Humans! (THEORY)	Story
60	20 Nov	The Fine Print (PERFECT)	Story
59	06 Nov	When Paper is No More (NOVEL)	Haiku Triptych
58	02 Oct	Book of Joining (CLEAVE)	Story
57	28 Aug	"Artemis I launch" (REBEL)	Haiku
56	21 Aug	"Commands unheaded" (ZONE)	Haiku
55	14 Aug	"Midnight's gaunt quarter" (QUARTER)	Haiku
54	07 Aug	Ash (ASH)	Story
53	24 Jul 04 Aug	"Home" (BRILLIANT)	Story
52	17 Jul 02 Aug	"The 800-Pound Altarian Bloodworm" (YEARN)	Story
51	03 Jul	"Do not give notice" (NOTICE)	Haiku
50	12 Jun	"The Worm Drive engaged" (ENGAGE)	Haiku
49	29 May	"The short aliens" (SHORT)	Haiku
48	22 May	"Elaborate Script" (ELABORATE)	Haiku Triptych
47	15 May	"Alien Object" (OBJECT)	Haiku
46	08 May	"Death to leave the queue" (LEAVE)	Haiku
45	01 May	"It was very odd" (ODD)	Haiku
44	17 Apr	"The Fog of Great Lies" (HARD)	Haiku
43	20 Mar	"Cetacean Uplift" (UPLIFT)	Haiku Triptych See also HY 19 Mar
42	13 Mar	"There, dragons are born!" (GORGE)	Haiku
41	06 Mar	"A nova surprise" (DECREASE)	Haiku
40	30 Jan	"I update my core" (UPDATE)	Haiku
39	23 Jan	"I fly through worm holes" (ABSENT)	Haiku See also HY 22 Jan
38	16 Jan	"Star Duck is grounded" (DUCK)	Haiku
37	09 Jan	"The impact was swift" (IMPACT)	Haiku Triptych
36	02 Jan	"We sought conscious life" (ONE)	Haiku See also HY 02 Jan

2021

35	26 Dec	"I can give no more!" (GIVE)	Story
34	12 Dec	"invest in your dreams" (INVEST)	Haiku
33	05 Dec	"We must never fail!" (FAIL)	Haiku See also HY 12 Dec
32	28 Nov	"We Are The Impulse" (PLACE)	Haiku Triptych See also HY 27 Nov
31	21 Nov	"Not extravagant" (EXTRAVAGANT)	Haiku See also HY 21 Nov
30	07 Nov	"To Be, or Not to Be? - An Activation Question" (ACTIVE)	Story
29	31 Oct	"Alpha Terminal" (TERMINAL)	Haiku Triptych
28	24 Oct	"Warnings from the sky" (COWER)	Haiku
27	17 Oct	Never Enough Time (GRIEF)	Haiku Triptych
26	10 Oct	"Once God's sole domain" (MYSTERY)	Haiku
25	03 Oct	"My tail spike glows blue" (WRITHE)	Haiku
24	26 Sep	"Our limited minds" (LIMITED)	Haiku
23	19 Sep	"I come from exiles" (RELATIVE)	Haiku Triptych
22	05 Sep	"Eternal gods" (ETERNAL)	Haiku
21	29 Aug	"We have learned nothing" (BATTLE)	Haiku
20	22 Aug	"Surfing stellar waves" (USE)	Haiku
19	15 Aug	"mindcasting" (SERVICE)	Haiku
18	01 Aug	"A Lasting Egocentricity" (COMPLETE)	Story
17	25 Jul	"A cosmic memorial" (MEMORIAL)	Haiku
16	18 Jul	"The ride of your life! (FEW)	Haiku
15	11 Jul	"Rest for the weary?" (ARTIST)	Haiku
14	04 Jul	"Birth of a Starship" (UNCERTAIN)	Story
13	27 Jun	"Rā" (PARTNER)	Story
12	13 Jun	"No survivors found" (SURVIVOR)	Haiku
11	06 Jun	"We rescued the moon" (DISTRICT)	Haiku
10	30 May	"call me old fashioned" (DESIGN)	Haiku
09	16 May	"The Loops" (LOOP)	Story
08	09 May	"I Have a Talent for Escaping Disasters" (TALENT)	Story
07	02 May	"Humanity's Greed" (SIMILARITY)	Haiku
06	25 Apr	"In a world gone mad" (UNFAIR)	Haiku Triptych
05	18 Apr	"Gravity is Heaven's Language" (DANCE)	Story
04	31 Jan	"Our wild race to Mars" (COMFORT)	Haiku
03	16 Jan	"I am your vessel" (ARRANGE)	Haiku

2020

02	20 Dec	"Fish Tacos" (IMAGINE)	Story
01	18 Oct	"wander in wonder" (CREEP)	Haiku

Hawk and Young (Now Closed)

The Hawk and Young compilations, co-hosted by @HawkandYoung (Elsha Hawk @ElshaHawk & Eddie-Joe Young @EddieJoeYoung13), @_Irene_Dreams_ (Irene), and @AlanVMichaels (Alan Vincent Michaels), give haiku poets an opportunity to create speculative fiction poetry inspired by weekly Twitter #ScifaikuSaturday single-word prompts.

To date, I've had 24 unique (31 total) haiku published in this now closed, online anthology, including several haiku triptychs.

2022

31	26 Mar	"Help Wanted" (DESIRE)	Haiku
30	26 Mar	"Desire all the stars" (DESIRE)	Haiku
29	19 Mar	"Cetacean Uplift" (WARP)	Haiku Triptych See also AE 03 Mar
28	12 Mar	"Extraction error" (ERROR)	Haiku
27	12 Mar	"The error was in coding" (ERROR)	Haiku
26	05 Mar	"ETs exhume nova cores" (NOVA)	Haiku
25	19 Feb	"Soon, you will be in stasis" (STASIS)	Haiku
24	12 Feb	"neon tattoos rage" (NEON)	Haiku
23	06 Feb	"Care for your patient " (LISTEN)	Haiku
22	30 Jan	"The Spark of Life" (JOLT)	Haiku
21	23 Jan	""Fuel is scarce out here" (FUEL)	Haiku
20	23 Jan	"Star Duck is grounded" (FUEL)	Haiku See also AE 16 Jan
19	22 Jan	"I fly through worm holes" (FLY)	Haiku See also AE 23 Jan
18	09 Jan	"The impact changed zip" (CHANGE)	Haiku
17	02 Jan	"We sought conscious life" (RESCUE)	Haiku See also AE 02 Jan

2021

16	25 Dec	"Give me your essence" (EXIST)	Haiku
15	25 Dec	"We are the main course" (EXIST)	Haiku
14	18 Dec	"Woeful clicks arose" (ASTEROID)	Haiku
13	18 Dec	"Rebirth" (ASTEROID)	Haiku Triptych
12	11 Dec	"We weren't the first here" (KEN)	Haiku
11	05 Dec	"Design to Succeed!" (WORLD)	Haiku
10	05 Dec	"A new world for us" (WORLD)	Haiku
09	05 Dec	"Life seeks a new home" (WORLD)	Haiku
08	05 Dec	"We must never fail!" (WORLD)	Haiku See also AE 05 Dec
07	27 Nov	"We Are The Impulse" (IMPULSE)	Haiku Triptych See also AE 28 Nov
06	27 Nov	"The impulse to fight" (IMPULSE)	Haiku
05	21 Nov	"Not extravagant" (DIGIT)	Haiku See also AE 21 Nov
04	21 Nov	"The digits slide fast" (DIGIT)	Haiku
03	14 Nov	"We dance in a trance" (CLOUD)	Haiku
02	14 Nov	"Venusian clouds" (CLOUD)	Haiku
01	06 Nov	"Can we land, yet?" - "Guess why we cannot." (APOGEE)	Haiku Triptych

A Writer's Chronicle

The items published in the weekly A Writer's Chronicle are at the discretion of @Owen_G_Richards on Twitter. This is my first piece published in A Writer's Chronicle.

2021

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"My lies matter not"
HAIKU (#VSS365 #JOURNAL)

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Bibliography Online anthologies

Aethereal Engineer (Now Closed)

2023

2022

2021

2020

Hawk and Young (Now Closed)

2022

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A Writer's Chronicle

2021

Bibliography
Online anthologies