Awards
(Complete short story bibliography further down)
"Good With Directions"
Preliminary nomination for Edgar Award (Mystery Writers of America) for Best Short Story, 2006
- originally published in Futures Mystery Anthology, May 2006
"I Have To Go Now"
Writer's Post Journal's "Best of 2005" Collection, Feb. 2006
- originally published Feb. 2005
"Clyde's Hide"
Runner-up, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- October 2005 Mysterious Photo/Story Contest
"Unfathomed"
1st Place - Lynx Eye's 8th Annual
Captivating Beginnings Contest
- May 2004
"Reality Check On Register Two"
StorySouth's Year's Notable Stories, 2004
- originally published in Pindeldyboz, Jan. 2006
"Of Love And Leather Flight Jackets"
#1 Rated story (of approx. 400)
on Zoetrope.com
- November 2003
Appetizers
"A Mid-Winter's Hydro-Engineering Project"
Chances are the intro to this story will be longer than the story itself. Suffice it to say that the Canadian-based magazine NFG holds a contest for each issue to see who can write the best complete story in exactly 69 words. Hence the contest's title, The Great 69'er Contest. I liked the challenge and wrote a couple. This is the first, which appeared in NFG in August 2004.
(Intro (not including this little note), exactly 69 words. See, having OCD can be fun.)
A Mid-Winter's Hydro-Engineering Project
Freddie glanced at him. "Naturally. The cohesiveness of any crystalline-based structure with a mass-to-weight ratio like this is going to be suspect."
Watching from inside the house, their mother shook her head as the boy's four-foot snowball collapsed under its own weight. She looked at her husband and sighed. "They grow up so fast."
The End
"A Solid Deal"
Another 69'er, published by NFG in July of 2005. The idea for this one came to me while I was reading for an upcoming family trip to
A Solid Deal
"Absolutely," said Lucifer. "I get my usual fee; you get this enchanted pouch of gemstones. As long as you hold it, it will never possess less than twenty perfect gems and I guarantee you'll hold it for over 2,000 years."
Constantino grinned, accepting Lucifer's handshake. "I'm going to be the richest man in
The devil smirked. "Or at least
Vesuvius rumbled.
Published and Forthcoming Short Stories, Articles & Essays
Most of my work is published in print magazines, but where possible, I've provided links to those items that are available on-line.
Science Fiction & Contemporary Fantasy (think Twilight Zone):
2007
"About Time" - From The Asylum, Year 3 (anthology), July, (reprint)
"Lair of The Ice Rat" - Crypto-Critters II (anthology), July
"Jeannie In A Bottle" - Outer Darkness, forthcoming (reprint)
2006
"The River Is Forever" - The Mechanized Muse (as an audio file), February (reprint) www.MechMuse.com
"Weird Omelets" - Beyond Centauri, April
2005
"Losing It" - Outer Darkness, May
"A Solid Deal" - NFG, July
"Trill and the Beanstalk" - Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Oct. www.InterGalacticMedicineShow.com
"Just A Piece of String" - Writer's Post Journal, Oct.
"About Time" - From The Asylum (on-line) Oct. http://www.FromTheAsylum.com/interior2.htm
"The Last HammerSong" - AlienSkin, Oct./Nov. www.AlienSkinmag.com
2004
"Fourth and Goal" - Dark Energy SF, March http://www.darkenergysf.com/stories/FourthAndGoal.htm
"Heather's Flight" - Worlds Of Wonder, April (reprint)
"Jeannie In A Bottle" - Fusing Horizons, May (British publication)
"Unfathomed" - Lynx Eye, May (This story also won First Prize in Lynx Eye's 8th Annual Captivating Beginnings Contest.)
"The River Is Forever" - Nostalgia Magazine, June
"I Am The Wizard" - Revelations, June
"The Trouble With Eating Clouds" - Beyond Centauri, Oct.
"Never Too Late Anymore" - Twilight Times, Oct. http://www.twilighttimes.com/oct04/e_Schubert26.html
"The River Is Forever" - Writer’s Post Journal, Nov. (reprint)
2003
"Climbing Clouds Again" - Bewildering Stories, Oct.
"Heather's Flight" - Word Works Anthology, Nov.
"Climbing Clouds Again" - Dream Forge, Dec. (reprint)
Mysteries:
2006
"Good With Directions" - Futures Mystery Anthology, May (one of this issue's 'Featured Authors')
"Samantha" - The Horror Library, October (reprint) http://www.horrorlibrary.net/index.php?page=php_view_story&story_id=628
2005
"Legwork" - Hardboiled, Summer (20th Anniv. issue)
2004
"Buy Four, Get One Free" - Futures Mysterious Anthology, Jan.
"Samantha" - Futures Mysterious Anthology, April
2003
"Nothing Interesting To Do" – Futures Mysterious Anthology, Jan.
Other:
2006
"I Have To Go Now" - Writer's Post Journal - Year's Best, 2005, Feb. (reprint)
2005
"I Have To Go Now" - Writer's Post Journal, Feb.
2004
"Reality Check on Register Two" - Pindeldyboz, Jan. (this story also made StorySouth's list of Notable Stories of 2004) http://www.pindeldyboz.com/escheck.htm
"The Final Exam" - Writer-s Post Journal, Aug. (first chapter of my novel, The Legend Of Dreaming Creek)
"A Mid-Winter’s Hydro-Engineering Project" - NFG, Aug.
"Splitting Wood" - Storyteller, Dec.
Articles & Essays
2007
"InterGalactic Interview with Peter S. Beagle" - Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, July
"Deathrealm Revisited: An Interview With Stephen Mark Rainey" - Dark Recesses, April (reprint)"Deathrealm Revisited: An Interview With Stephen Mark Rainey" - The Horror Library, January
2006
"The Best Vampire Novels Ever. Period." - The Horror Library, June
http://www.horrorlibrary.net/view_story.php?story_id=550
"An Interview With Bruce Gehweiler, Owner, Publisher and Editor of Marieta Publishing" - The Horror Library, July
"Inside The Horror Writer's Association Mentoring Program: An Interview With Steve Savile" - The Horror Library, August
"Plot-Mate" - The Horror Library, August
"Inside The Horror Writer's Association Mentoring Program: An Interview With Steve Savile" - Dark Recesses, October (reprint)
"Inside The Horror Writer's Association Mentoring Program: An Interview With Steve Savile" - permanently added to the HWA website, October http://www.horror.org/article-mentoring.htm
"The Best Vampire Novels Ever. Period." - Dark Recesses, December (reprint)
2005
"Writing The Breakout Novel by Donald Maass- Book review" Gator Springs Gazette, March.
"Lessons in Chess and Life" - Writer's Post Journal, July
"Highlands And Baths (Counties, that is...)" - Writer's Post Journal, August
"History's Literary Perspective" - Writer's Post Journal, forthcoming
2004
"Chaos Theory" - Writer's Post Journal, May
"Writer's Party Secrets" - Writer's Post Journal June (Reprinted on this web-site in the "On Writing" section) http://www.edmundrschubert.com/onwriting.htm
"Experiencing A Story" - National Writer's Association, July (Reprinted on this web-site in the "On Writing" section (see link above))
"Character & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card - Book review" Gator Springs Gazette, Sept. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fandango.virtual/gator/wmt_page_23.htm
