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Mark A. Rayner writes fiction in London, Ontario (Canada), where he lives with his partner Heather, their creative director and cat, Mr. Magoo, and their big white dog, Ceilidh.

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Stories

The Emily Chesley Reading Circle

 

Mark A. Rayner


Short Fiction 

"Any Port in a Storm" (Parsec, Summer 1999)
*Nominated for a 2000 Aurora Award
Online version

"Courage Translated"
(TT2000 Anthology, Summer 2000);
(EOTU Ezine, Feb. 2002)
Online version

"After the Internet" (WAG, Fall 2001)
*Nominated for a 2002 Aurora Award
Online version

"The Afrikaaners of East Nissouri"
(Would That It Were, Jan. 2002)
Online version

"Un Port dans la Tempête" (translation of "Any Port in a Storm", Science-Fiction Magazine, Feb. 2002)
*Nominated for a 2003 Aurora Award

"A Measure of Monkey Joy" (The Emily Chesley Reading Circle, June 2002)
Online version

"The Gallant Captain Oates" (Would That It Were, July 2002)
Online version

"Hounding Manny" (Oceans of the Mind, Fall 2002)

"Thor's Brood" (The Meanderings of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle, 2003)

"Un Port dans la Tempête" (translation of "Any Port in a Storm", Solaris, Summer, 2003) *nominated for a 2003 Aurora Award

"Close to the Wind" (Far Sector SFFH, October 2003, available at Fictionwise.com)

"The rush of heaven downward" (Flash Me, October 2003)

"The Consolation of Victory" (Paradox, January 2004)

"The Ghost and Its King" (Neometropolis, September 2004)

"A Reluctant Emcee" ( Abyss & Apex, Oct. 2004)
Online version

"The Imitation Game" (Nostalia, October 2004)

"The Feet Feelers of Frigheim Nine" (Fortean Bureau, upcoming).

"The Monkey's Tail, as Told by Marcel Duchamp the Day After Charles Lindbergh Landed at Le Bourget Field" (Trunk Stories, upcoming)

Books

The Meanderings of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle (Dancing Men Press, 2003)  You can buy copies here.

The Amadeus Net (Emperor's New Clothes Press, coming in 2005)

Plays Produced

Cordially Entertaining Emily Chesley
(Suitcase In Point, St. Catharines, Toronto, 2003)

Duet for Killers
(Small & Dangerous Theatre, Prague, 1993)

The Spy Who Bugged Me
(Queen's Players, 1989)

 

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