Micro Monday - August 4, 2025
Special Report
A few weeks ago,
put out a call for submissions for Weather Reports, a speculative fiction/art anthology where the sky looks very, very different than we’re used to. There are a lot of big names attached to this one, and I’m very excited to see how it turns out, so if you aren’t following Jon for updates, check him out.In the meantime, with my own submission done and dusted, I thought I’d use this week’s Micro Monday to post a short teaser for my story, The Hymenopterist.
The Hymenopterist (teaser)
When the sky lit up, I knew I had to get out of the city.
The camper van had a full tank of gas, courtesy of a generous research stipend. Internet would be spotty out in the grasslands, but that was probably for the best. Food would be a problem, but I dimly remembered being a starving grad student. I could handle being a starving biologist.
On my way out of Trinity, I saw a man holding a cardboard sign on a street corner. He was backlit by a sky that rippled with green and purple. The radio went quiet as I passed him, and I heard a strange hum creep in through the cracked passenger side window. The sign read:
THE END IS NIGH
Which struck me as funny. Isn’t it always?