Graham J. Darling writes stories of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, and singular hybrids thereof.

Stories

“A Pleasant Walk, a Pleasant Talk”— who are they what do they want with us? we bring you the breaking news (1300 words; available for reprint).

• 2019-01 Pulp Literature magazine, Issue 21 (print, digital).

“The Tim Machine” — From A Christmas Carol to The Time Machine and back again—and beyond (4000 words; available for first publication).

• “A re-telling — no, a complete re-inventing! — of H.G. Wells ‘The Time Machine’, featuring a surprise guest as The Time Traveller” (The National Fantasy Fan magazine).
• N3F Short Story Contest 2018 — Second Prize (National Fantasy Fan Federation).

Schiaparelli, 1888

“Jon Carver of Barzoon, You Misunderstood” — the strange culmination of a planetary romance (250 words; available for reprint).

• “Short but outstanding… tantalizing hints at a complex fantasy world” (Publishers Weekly).
• “Oddly impeccable” (epiphany_maria).
• “Stood out for me… beautiful in its simplicity” (Sepiidae: The Right Venue).
• “Cleverly deconstructing the Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs” (Martian Migraine Press).
• “Stayed with me… a powerful prose poem that brilliantly brings to life a faraway world with vivid, alien imagery” (Benito Corral Reviews…).
• “Standout… Pages completely subvert their source material” (Lisa’s Reviews).
• “Made my brain hurt… I like it” (OBIR Magazine).
• Best Short Fiction of 2014 – Honourable Mention (Apex Magazine).

• 2019-03 Polar Borealis Magazine, Issue 9 (read it now!).
• 2018-10 The Quilliad magazine, Issue 10.
• 2018-08 Wizards in Space, Issue 3.
• 2018-04 Odd Tales of Wonder magazine, Issue 8.
• 2018-03 Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast, Episode 307 (hear it now!).
• 2017-01 Great Jones Street subscription app, post (until 2018-01; defunct).
• 2014-05 Sword & Mythos anthology.

“Immaterial Witness”—even the latest forensic technologies don’t always work the way we’d hope (3000 words; available for first publication).

• N3F Short Story Contest 2017 — Honorable Mention (National Fantasy Fan Federation).

A Life of Fiction

All systems go!

Graham J. “GrayJay” Darling has long been a voracious consumer of speculative literature. The first novel he ever read was Alice in Wonderland: after learning that by heart, he went on to sip from entire fields of such flowers of the imagination. Eventually he was moved to share the wonder with like-minded fans in clubs, conventions, productions and games. He now writes as fiction what the world isn’t ready for as fact, in parallel to his activities as a scientist and as a medieval reenactor.

• Interview by Joshua Pantalleresco for his Aurora-winning podcast show Just Joshing, May 2018, Episode 180 (Podomatic, iTunes, YouTube).
• Interview by Christel Bodenbender for Reality Skimming, a blog hosted by Lynda Williams, January 2015.
• Interview at VCON 39, a science fiction convention in Vancouver BC, October 2014.