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The main character from “Shreddy and the Dancing Dragon” has a history of running afoul of modern technology. So, it was only a matter of time before the cantankerous tabby Shreddy went up against a Wii/PlayStation/Xbox-like video game console.

However, the final form of the video game villain that Shreddy would face stayed up in the air until the editor of an anthology called The Dragon’s Hoard expressed her fondness for Shreddy.  Thus a beautiful marriage was born. Continue reading “Spotlight on “Shreddy and the Dancing Dragon””

One of our stories, “Lunar Cavity,” has been nominated for an Ursa Major Award!  This is a huge honor, and we’re really excited.  But that’s not all!

A collection that includes five of our cat stories, The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats, has been nominated for Best Other Literary Work, and In a Dog’s World has been nominated for Best Novel.

What does Deep Sky Anchor — a web-zine for short fiction — have to do with a novel? Continue reading “Ursa Major Nominations!”

In celebration of Pi Day, we have a new story from the Wespirtech Universe for you!

Join Prilla — The Little Red Avian Alien — on her journey to make fresh grassberry crepelettes, the way she remembers them from when she was a hatchling.  Along her path, Prilla must negotiate with a reptilian alien, aquatic alien, robot, and her dearest friend, a canine alien.  If you’ve been reading our other stories, you’ll recognize a lot of these species. Continue reading “Happy Pi Day!”

We asked our readers what kind of story they’d like to celebrate Leap Day with —

• space chicken
• fox chicken
• chicken of the night

— and the answer was a resounding, “Bring it home to Earth!  No more SPACE.” Continue reading “Leap Day Chickens”

We’ve received a special shipment — a Valentine’s Day present for you!

Today’s story is another furry sci-fi story set in the Wespirtech Universe.  But this time, there are four different types of aliens!  It’s a story of love and friendship, across species and among the stars.  Please enjoy, Where the Heart Is.

Today we celebrate animal oracles and their whimsical capriciousness.

So, after you finish puzzling over a groundhog’s weather forecast, be glad that the groundhog is only forecasting the weather — not controlling it.  In our newest story, Panda-Mensional, the pandas have more control than the main character would like.

Happy Groundhog Day from Deep Sky Anchor!

We’re excited to bring you five cat stories from The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats!  All five of these stories were published for the first time last year and are eligible for the 2015 Ursa Major Awards. Continue reading “Cat Stories!”

We’ve received our first shipment from the Wespirtech Universe to our cargo bay!

Lunar Cavity is a story about bat-like aliens whose planet is in catastrophic danger.  Continue reading “Our first shipment!”

Our stories today take us back to the universe of Wespirtech, a place that we hope you’ll want to visit again in the future.  For although this is the last day of our launch event, Deep Sky Anchor has settled into a stable orbit, and rest assured, we expect more shipments of fiction soon. Continue reading “Stable Orbit Achieved”

When a reader opens a book and starts reading, they’re hoping to get lost in the story, dive in so deep that the words stop being words and start being an entirely new world surrounding them, drawing them in.  Of course, you can always close the book and come back home.  Sure, it may be 3am, and you’ll be really tired the next day.  Still, the real world is waiting for you outside of the story. Continue reading “The Deep Well of Story”