Two cool things!

1. My story “The Rainbow Flame” is out in Uncanny magazine today. You can read it here!

“Wiping sweat from her forehead before it could spill into her eyes, Rupali stirred a large iron cauldron over a searing fire. Swirls of silver, shards of sky, and the thorny notes of a forgotten folk melody all danced through the boiling beeswax. It was different every time, like a legend passing from mouth to mouth and changing in the telling. She drew in a breath through cracked, parched lips, and the oppressive air scorched her lungs. Impatience shot through her. Would she always be the one heating the wax, never the one lighting the flame?”

2. “She Sleeps Beneath the Sea,” my story in Faerie, was recommended in io9.com‘s Newsstand (best stories of the week)!

“Shveta Thakrar is a poet as well as a fiction writer, and that’s very clear from the prose in this story. She paints word pictures that are evocative and lush and pull you along like a strong current.”

Thanks for celebrating with me! Now I’m off to make more words.