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Starblind, Booklost, and Hearing the Songs of True Birds

Historian Vitalius Cotton’s brother has been cursed by prophecy since they were kids. Vitalius has a chance to return his brother to a normal life, but it probably bring huge changes to the city, it’s history, and Vitalius’ own life. “Starblind” is set in the same city as my previous stories “Moonless” and “Sunfast.” His […]

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Night Marchers podcast redux

05-18-2023 9:31 PM
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When I hosted the second season of the Why Why Why podcast, my goal was to talk to writers from different parts of the world, but I started closer to home. Since I was new to interviewing, I figured I’d ease into it by talking first with someone I already knew–Daniel Braum, whose first short […]

Interview and an older story posted online

10-12-2022 3:02 AM
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Following the online event I did back in July with Robert Levy and Daniel Braum, there’s now an extended, written version of my conversation with Dan over at the Cemetery Dance website. We talk quite a bit about my story in F&SF from this past summer, “Starblind, Booklost, and Hearing the Songs of True Birds,” […]

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About Me

Welcome to the online home of Rudi Dornemann.

I write fiction, generally fantasy or science fiction, most of which is listed here.

From 2007 to 2011, I wrote flash fiction for The Daily Cabal. (I’ve listed my favorite 12 Cabal contributions here.)

Nonfictionwise, for several years, I wrote reviews for The Rain Taxi Review of Books.

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Notes from an Imaginary Place (Monthly Email & Podcast)

I’m sending fiction out through a monthly email newsletter, Notes from an Imaginary Place. Each installment will also be available as a podcast.

The first 26 installments will be an architectural alphabet, from Archive to Ziggurat (although not necessarily in that order). Each story puts you in another, fairly fantastical, place for 15 minutes or so of reading or listening time.

Click below to sign up for the emails. I’ll include podcast links in each email (and you can find/subscribe to the podcast via your favorite podcast app or service).

Here’s an archive of all the episodes so far.

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