{"id":1353,"date":"2018-01-11T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T16:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2018-03-13T21:36:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T03:36:04","slug":"the-fruit-ripens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/11\/the-fruit-ripens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fruit Ripens"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was an incredibly up-and-down year, 2017 was. Tumultuous. Fraught. But with incredibly uplifting moments. For me, seeds that I successfully planted came to fruition. I had several short stories come out in 2017, some of them twice.<\/p>\n

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Fiction River: Superpowers<\/em><\/p>\n

My story “The Ballad of Osmosis McGuire” made the Tangent Online Recommended Reading List for 2017–with THREE STARS.<\/p>\n

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Fiction River: Last Stand<\/em><\/p>\n

“Death Bunnies of Toxic Island” is certainly one of the quirkiest stories I’ve ever done.<\/p>\n

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Fiction River: Pulse Pounders Adrenaline<\/em><\/p>\n

“Redline” is the redneck muscle-car mayhem story you never knew you needed. Series Editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch called it a story that will really stick with you.<\/p>\n

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Fiction River: Visions of the Apocalypse<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the darkest stories I’ve ever written, “Demon-touched” reveals a plague we didn’t see coming.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>But that ain’t all. My Halloween horror story “Bones of Change” did double duty, appearing in\u00a0two\u00a0<\/em>collections, On Hallow’s Eve<\/em> and\u00a0Stars in the Darkness<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Here’s hoping the seeds I’m planting today bear fruit as successfully as these. Onward!<\/p>\n\n\n