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 βοΈ
Subscription/purchase needed πShort Stories
"A Play Among the Ruins", Gwyllion: Rhifyn 8 / Volume 8 (2024) π (digital download) (print copy)
"Honey for Breakfast", AntipodeanSF: Issue 307 βοΈ
"I Will Give You A Crown of Gems to Wear", Swords and Sorcery: Issue 146 βοΈ
"A Star, a Stone, a Sculpture, a Sculptor", All Worlds Wayfarer: Volume XVIII (2024) π Free to read until May 18th! βοΈ
"You and Me, Here and There, Now and Then and When", Luna Station Quarterly, Issue 057 (2024) π (digital edition of whole issue is $2.99)
"Repercussions", Inner Worlds: Issue 2 (2024) βοΈ
"The Heart Beneath the Soil and the Water", Aphelion Magazine (2024) βοΈ
"Beneath the Light of the Gibbous Moon", CommuterLit (2024) βοΈ
"By the Blades of Grass and Knife", Yule: A Collection of Yule Time Tales, an anthology from Speculation Publications (2023) π (ebook) (paperback) (extract of my piece)
"Hum If You Don't Know the Words", Honeyguide Literary Magazine: Issue 7, October (2023) βοΈ
"The Wind Will Call Me Over Land, Coast and Sea", Orion's Beau: Fall 2023, the Transformation and the Power of Love Issue (2023) βοΈ
"The Traveling Fayre of SeΓ±or Monteluz Comes to the Occidental Archipelago", Swords and Sorcery: Issue 140 (2023) βοΈ
"Let It All Melt Away", AntipodeanSF: Issue 300 (2023) βοΈ (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) βοΈ (listen to the podcast)
"Citizen Apparent", Sci-Fi Shorts (2023) βοΈUpcoming
"Malus Domestica Aurum", Eternal Haunted Summer
"Lost in the Shape of You", Necronomi-Romcom, an anthology from Transformations by Obsidian Butterfly (2024) cover and table of contents preview
"A Mouthful of Prayers", Carmina Magazine
"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
"A Call To Arms", Anna Karenina Isn't Dead (2024), an anthology from Improbable Press, available in paperback and ereader π - 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) π
"First", Utopia Science Fiction: Oct/Nov (2023) π
"Let's go to the seaside", Medusa's Kitchen (2023) βοΈ
"Lend me a book", Medusa's Kitchen (2023) βοΈPoetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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!