JM Cyrus

Wordsmith, purveyor of tales, speculator of fiction, explorer of worlds uncreated, discoverer through the mists of imagination.I make things up and write them down.

Works

Free to read ✒️
Subscription/purchase needed 🌑Short Stories
🌑 "How to Cross the Cavorting Sea’s Wandering Islands During the Fourth Dance of the Widdershins Elliptical Cycle", Black Cat Weekly #161 (2024)
✒️"All the Times I Thought I was Pregnant", Liar's League: Women & Girls #8 (2024) (watch on YouTube) (listen to the podcast)
✒️ "A Mouthful of Prayers", Carmina Magazine: September (2024)
🌑 "Lost in the Shape of You", Necronomi-Romcom: Where Mythos Meets Cute, Light Volume, an anthology from Transformations by Obsidian Butterfly (2024) (ebook and paperback) (omnibus hardback)
✒️"Malus Domestica Aurum", Eternal Haunted Summer: Summer Solstice Volume, Gardens (2024)
🌑 "A Play Among the Ruins", Gwyllion: Rhifyn 8 / Volume 8 (2024) (digital download) (print copy)
✒️ "Honey for Breakfast", AntipodeanSF: Issue 307 (2024) (listen to the podcast)
✒️ "I Will Give You A Crown of Gems to Wear", Swords and Sorcery: Issue 146 (2024)
🌑 "A Star, a Stone, a Sculpture, a Sculptor", All Worlds Wayfarer: Volume XVIII (2024)
🌑 "You and Me, Here and There, Now and Then and When", Luna Station Quarterly, Issue 057 (2024) (reviewed by SFF Reviews)
✒️ "Repercussions", Inner Worlds: Issue 2 (2024)
✒️ "The Heart Beneath the Soil and the Water", Aphelion Magazine (2024)
✒️ "Beneath the Light of the Gibbous Moon", CommuterLit (2024)
🌑 "By the Blades of Grass and Knife", Yule: A Collection of Yule Time Tales, an anthology from Speculation Publications (2023) (ebook) (paperback) (extract of my piece)
✒️ "Hum If You Don't Know the Words", Honeyguide Literary Magazine: Issue 7, October (2023)
✒️ "The Wind Will Call Me Over Land, Coast and Sea", Orion's Beau: Fall 2023, the Transformation and the Power of Love Issue (2023)
✒️ "The Traveling Fayre of Señor Monteluz Comes to the Occidental Archipelago", Swords and Sorcery: Issue 140 (2023)
✒️ "Let It All Melt Away", AntipodeanSF: Issue 300 (2023) (listen to the podcast)
"Like A Breath In Another Room", Flint Vol. 2: Wish, by Erro Press (2023) (no longer available)
✒️ "Jane is Called", AntipodeanSF: Issue 298 (2023) (listen to the podcast)
✒️ "Citizen Apparent", Sci-Fi Shorts (2023)Upcoming
"Cradled Amongst the Roots" Baubles From Bones
"Let Me Take a Look at You", Corvid Queen
"A Solitary Walk", Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine
"Feathers of Memory", Backyard Earth, an anthology from The Patchwork RavenA short story is a view through a keyhole in a locked door into a walled garden.Poetry
🌑 "As the Crow Flies" Space and Time: Fall/Winter #147 (2024)
🌑 "Across the Line", Utopia Science Fiction: June/July (2024)
🌑 "A Call To Arms", Anna Karenina Isn't Dead (2024), an anthology from Improbable Press, available in paperback and ereader - this one bears the title of my first ever submission, right at the beginning of 2023. It set the bar high in terms of my expectations of both acceptance rate and editorial kindness
🌑 "Umbilicus Cosmicum", Star*Line Speculative Poetry: Issue 47.1 (2024)
🌑 "First", Utopia Science Fiction: Oct/Nov (2023)
✒️ "Let's go to the seaside", Medusa's Kitchen (2023)
✒️ "Lend me a book", Medusa's Kitchen (2023)Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.Other
Upcoming
Five recipes to be included in Cursed Cooking: A Horror Community Cookbook and Food Horror Anthology by Cat Eye Press LLC (available to preorder)

Contact

I don't use social media, so if you'd like to reach me, please send me an email.

jmcyrus dot writer at gmail dot comOr send me a tip!