Hello ! Welcome. Please check out my blog for recent stories and news and www.danielbraum.com for more info about me.
If I've sent an add request, hello ! I'm looking to reach out to readers, writers, editors and creative souls to share my fiction. Learning something in return wouldn't be half bad either.
Here's my most recent contributor's bio:
Daniel Braum’s stories defy category and often reside in the fuzzy areas in between genres. Much of his fiction is set in the here and now and explores places on the edges of civilization. Another line of stories are science fiction tales with speculative elements that border on the fantastic or magical. His work can be found on the web in places such as The Fortean Bureau, Abyss and Apex, Dark Recesses, Psuedopod, and Darker Matter; and in print in Full Unit Hook Up, Electric Velocipede and Cemetery Dance. New stories are coming soon in the October 2008 issues of Farrago’s Wainscot and Dark Recesses #10. Others are forthcoming in future issues of Electric Velocipede and Cemetery Dance. More about his fiction can be found at www.danielbraum.com and http://dbraum.livejournal.com.
Several of the stories are published in their entirity online and for free. I'm in the process of updating the list here:
MYSTIC TRYST- in Farrago's Wainscot #8, "ANIMALIA",
(October 2008 ) www.farragoswainscot.com
An aging has-been rocker and his new-ager ex-wife find themselves thrust together again when the ghosts of their pet fish return to haunt them.
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The Yeti's Hand at The Fortean Bureau www.forteanbureau.com March 2004.
Sumo21 is a genre bending tale of alernate realities and alternate Japanese History. It is also free and live at www.abyssandapex.com.
Two other stories available online for free are Spark and The Black Orophant.
I periodically update my Live Journal with announcement such as when and where new short stories are published.
My short story Ghost Dance, from Electric Velocipede, received an honorable mention in the Year's Best Horror and Fantasy # 19 ( for 2005) ( St Martin's Press) edited by Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link.
My short story Across the Darien Gap, from Cemetery Dance #55, received an honorable mention in Volume #20 ( for 2006).
Here is an excerpt from my favorite review...
“The strength of Daniel Braum's writing is the strength that comes from patience, from a writer trusting his audience with a steady, slow pace that allows details to accumulate in the mind so that the story becomes consistently more vivid until it reaches a conclusion that is profound in its subtlety and restraint”.
–Matthew Cheney Nov. 2004.
From Sfsite.com review
I have to go with the good ones when they come because trust me not everyone likes my stories. Maybe you will.
I edited my profile with Thomas’ Myspace Editor V3.6!
