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Triangulation: Habitats

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Parsec Ink is proud to announce its 18th collection of short stories. Triangulation: Habitats contains 35 stories and poems from around the world that explore the theme of sustainable habitats in tune with their surroundings. Our authors have created compelling narratives driven by characters required to make hard choices in settings that push the boundaries of imagination. A man learns where he draws the line when it comes to living sustainably. Generations discover the human cost of leapfrogging through the solar system. A woman seeks a ghostly experience at an Eco Lodge. Three people learn the difference between a home and a homestead on an asteroid. A woman lives in a treehouse designed by aliens as she nurtures both a prenatal human and a sapling house. A three-hundred-year-old house dreams of its former occupants. Includes the Theodore Sturgeon reprint, Prutzy’s Pot.

Please join us in our explorations!

With These Authors and Stories:

Chris Hewitt, Anywhere but Elsewear

Jameyanne Fuller, Moon by Moon We Go Together

Liam Hogan, Parallel Rooms

Katherine Quevedo, Discount Night at the Haunted Eco Lodge

Cayce Osborne, Planting Trees

Octavia Cade, Metamorphosis

Andy K. Tytler, Leaf Glacier

A’liya Spinner, Homemaker

Maura Lydon, Desert Seeds

Salinda Tyson, House of Stone

Brett Kozlowski, Reduce, Repulse, Revile

Jennifer R. Povey, Homestead

Raluca Balasa, To My Grandson, From a Time in Which I Might Have Loved You

Jamie Lackey, The Voice of the Mother Whale

Jennifer Hudak, A Gardener Teaches His Son to Enrich the Soil and Plan for the Future

Kurt Newton, Tiny House

Rhian Bowley, SustainaCrock™

Oliver Smith, The Hoyle-Wickramasinghe Rose

Lisa Timpf, This Future At Least Has Cows

John C. Mannone, In Plain Sight

Sandra Kasturi, In The Future We Will Live In Broken Houses

Robert Borski, The Fauna of Lilliput

Juleigh Howard-Hobson, I am Already Tired of Earth.2

Julie Bloss Kelsey, untitled poem

Sandra Lindow, House Gravity Physics

Theodore Sturgeon, Pruzy’s Pot

CTN Von Mayendorf, Habitopiary

D. G. P. Rector, Mourn Each Blade of Grass

Greg Clumpner, Spritely Duty

Jean Martin, The Sun Makes the Van Go

Lynne Goldsmith, Crab Shells

Nora Swisher, The Bath

R Locke, Lineage

Tamara Power-Drutis, Ocera

Tom Marcinko Water, Striders

Introducing Triangulation: Habitats!

Parsec Ink’s 2021 SF/F/H anthology is due for publication at the end of July. This year we are including twenty-two original stories, eleven poems and one reprint, Pruzy’s Pot, by Theodore Sturgeon.

The Parsec Ink editor position is part of an educational program through the 501(c)(3) organization, Parsec Inc.
Our editors and editorial staff carefully read through hundreds of submissions and choose the well written stories that best capture the anthology’s theme. Other skills obtained during the term are, editing, book design, obtaining cover art, using ISBN numbers and online print and ebook publishing. Just this past week, our 2021 editor, John Thompson has learned how to create a fundraising campaign.

You can help make a difference in an aspiring author’s life. Even a small donation can go a long way to making this anthology a reality.
Your support is greatly appreciated.

This anthology relies on contributions from people like YOU!
Claim your perk before August 3, 2021

This year, we have four local Pittsburgh, PA authors that have had their stories accepted in the anthology:
Jamie Lackey hits another home run with a story of habitat symbiosis. Comfortably living inside your house takes on a whole different meaning when your house is alive.
CMU grad and WorD member CTN Von Mayendorf coined a term that I hope takes off — “Habitopiary,” noun, a home grown out of vegetation.
Jean Martin supposes a future that harkens back to the past — the romantic notion of living like gypsies, but solarized.
WorD member and C’monfluence behind-the-scenes genius Greg Clumpner wants deforestation and habitat destruction to not include the faerie realm — how can we all cohabitate?

Other authors with connections to our region:
Dr. Nora Swisher is also a CMU graduate, Jameyanne Fuller is an Alpha graduate, and poet Sandra Kasturi was deeply involved in fandom in Pittsburgh when she lived here.

Triangulation: Habitats will feature the very first short story publications of several new authors! Congratulations are due! Discovering new authors is always a joy for an editor. We can’t wait for you to read the stories by our new authors!

Finding clever writing by someone who’s work they haven’t come across before is always a nice surprise! Octavia Cade, one of our Habitats authors writes, “I’ve previously sold over 50 stories to markets including Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, and Strange Horizons.” I’ll be looking out for that name in the future.

Our cover art this year will be by CMU grad Katerina Kireeva, who created the cover for Triangulation: Extinction
Want a first peek at the Habitats cover art?
Follow the fundraiser to watch for the exciting reveal!

2021 Parsec Short Story Contest winners

1st place – Jennifer Gives her Heart to Radioland” by Matthew McHugh

Matt McHugh was born in suburban Pennsylvania, attended LaSalle University in Philadelphia, and after a few years as a Manhattanite, currently calls New Jersey home.

Website: http://mattmchugh.com 

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/mattmchughdotcom

Matt will be reading his story, Jennifer Gives her Heart to Radioland, for the video reading series on the Parsec Ink YouTube channel. Subscribe today to receive the notice when the video is available!
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2nd Place – Fishing by Carter Lappin

Carter Lappin is a female author from Southern California. She has a bachelor’s degree in creative writing. Her writing experience includes being scheduled to appear in an upcoming WorldWeaver Press anthology.

3rd place – Living Stagnant by Lucy Gray

Lucy Gray is a fiction writer and an electrical engineering student. She began writing short stories recently to explore emotions and possibilities as a writer, just as she had previously explored as a reader. In her spare time, she enjoys embroidering, reading, and spending time with her family.

June 2021 Parsec Meeting

Join us for the June Parsec meeting on Saturday June 19 at 1:00 pm. 

Wulf Moon will be our guest speaker.
We will also announce the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners of the annual Parsec Short Story contest! Come back after the meeting for an updated announcement on the winners and their stories.

Wulf’s topic is Perseverance Yields Rewards.
The definition of success is getting up one more time than you have fallen. Wulf Moon has fallen many times, as have other writers, but success is determined by how you deal with the setbacks, and how you find the power to stand back up and continue the climb.

The meeting will be held via Zoom: Parsec meeting REGISTRATION Link
If you previously registered, you can use the same link Zoom sent you last month. 
If you lost that link just click on the registration link and Zoom will send you a new meeting link. 

Please check into the EVENT PAGE ON FACEBOOK and let us know you will be attending.

Wulf Moon learned oral storytelling as a child when he lived with his Chippewa grandmother. He begged stories from her every night and usually got his wish—fireside tales that fired his imagination. If Moon had a time machine, those are the days he would go back to. Since he doesn’t have a time machine, he writes.
Wulf Moon wrote his first science fiction story at fifteen. It won the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and became his first professional sale in Science World. He has won over forty writing awards, and thirty in public speaking. His stories have appeared in Writers of the Future, DreamForge Anvil, Future Science Fiction Digest, Best of Third Flatiron, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and Best of Deep Magic Anthology 2. Moon is a professional voice-over actor and is podcast director at Future Science Fiction Digest.
Wulf Moon’s award-winning SUPER SECRETS Writing Resource and Workshops have been attributed by many aspiring writers as the secret to their success in obtaining first professional sales and international contest wins. Two of Wulf’s books on writing will be published by Mark Leslie of Stark Publishing Solutions in the fall of 2021. Want in on the Secrets? JOIN THE WULF PACK at http://thesupersecrets.com!

Feel free to invite a friend or post the information on your own social media pages.
Parsec meetings are always free to attend and open to the public!

May Parsec meeting

Join us for the monthly Parsec meeting on Saturday May 15, 2021 at 1:00pm

Our presentation this month:
Science Fiction and Comics, A Multimedia Presentation
by Joe Coluccio

Science Fiction and Science Fiction Comics share the same heritage, strolled the same paths.
From Buck Rogers to Fiction House, Amazing Stories to Mysteries in Space, Weird Tales to Weird Science, Mad Magazine to Dangerous Visions and Beyond. Registration is required.

Register in advance for this meeting HERE

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Joe Coluccio is the President of Parsec meeting group and the Board of Directors, Pittsburgh Premier Science Fiction and Fantasy Organization. He was program director for WYEP-FM, a local community access radio station in the first years of its existence.

Parsec Meeting 2021/04/17

The Parsec meeting this month will focus on eighteen years of Parsec Ink’s Triangulation anthology!

Zoom registration is required! Please register [HERE]

Our featured speaker is Jamie Lackey, author of The Blood of four Gods and Other Stories, Left Hand Gods, and Moving Forward, a novella of life after zombies.
Jamie will be regaling us with readings from the anthologies that she produced during her years as the Parsec Ink Triangulation editor.

Find out more about Jamie Lackey by visiting her website: https://www.jamielackey.com/
or LIKE her FB page: https://www.facebook.com/TheBooksThatJamieWrote

Parsec Ink has been producing quality Triangulation anthologies since 2003. Many fine editors have been part of this ongoing production, including; Diane Turnshek, Barb Carlson, Pete Butler, Bill Moran, Steve Ramey, Jamie Lackey, Frank Oreto, Douglas Gwilym, Chloe Nightingale, Isaac Payne and now in 2021, John Thompson.

We hope you will join us this month to celebrate the hard work of all the editors and eighteen years of Parsec Ink Triangulation anthologies!

This meeting will be recorded.

March 20, 2021 Parsec Meeting

The March meeting on the 20th will focus on topics for the annual Confluence conference. This meeting is a great time to bring your ideas and suggestions to the table. We hope you will join us. 1:00 pm on Zoom.

Click here to register in advance for this meeting

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Feb Parsec Meeting

Date: Sat Feb 20, 2021
Time: 1:00pm
Via Zoom: REGISTER HERE

Presentation Info:
 Marie Vibbert on How Not to Sell Your First Novel
“Galactic Hellcats had an unusual journey as a novel, starting out as something I wrote in a spiral notebook when I was fifteen, and finally selling off of a tweet when I was forty-five.  Along the way there were many lessons on how not to become a writer.”

Marie Vibbert Bio
Besides selling over sixty short stories to top markets such as Analog and F&SF, Marie Vibbert has sold poetry and comics and video games.  She played O-line and D-line for the Cleveland Fusion women’s tackle football team.  Her work has been translated into French, Chinese, and Vietnamese, and was called “..the embodiment of what science fiction should be…” by The Oxford Culture Review.

The deadline for the February Issue #429
of Sigma is due Sunday 2/8/21
Send your plain text or RTF document to:
joe@joecoluccio.com