What happens when I try to write a literary story and fail? “View Window” is the result. It’s my newest novelette and it’s part of the Strange Horizons Summer Fundraiser Issue. (Which could use some help, if you can.)

This story wrote itself, slowly unfolding, pulling lots of inspiration from some international travel I did last year and it used some of the ideas that I could never find the right place for. Initially I wanted to tell a semi-haunted story that found joy in language, but it kept getting stranger. So here we are.

It was a difficult, but fun piece to write.

My soundtracks for this one were Movement VII by Robert Koch, Julien Marchal and Highgate by Shearwater

This story is different that what I normally write, but I’m proud of how it pushed my skills. I hope you enjoy too!

My short story recommendation this time is “The Angel Azrael Rode Into The Town of Burnt Church on a Dead Horse” by Peter Darbyshire