Ray Vukcevich Site

Weekly Sphere — Uranium and Cucumbers

Ray — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:55:16 +0000

I’m catching up on writing after Orycon, so here’s one I shot with the old camera a few years ago. Mark Matthews — Bubble Sphere (approx 2″ diameter) in uranium yellow glass with a sliced cucumber.

Weekly Sphere — Dinah Hulet

Ray — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:38:54 +0000

Dinah Hulet. Temari style at 1-15/32″ (37 mm) in diameter. The marble is signed “Hulet/02″ Part of the fun of a Hulet sphere is finding the signature. One way to do it is to turn it in your fingers until you feel something very slightly scratchy and then use a magnifying glass.

Weekly Sphere

Ray — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:19:34 +0000

I’ll start with a classic and then add others as I learn to use my new camera.

“Warning Ball” by Mark Matthews, Sauder Village, Archbold, Ohio.

New Collection

Ray — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:32:39 +0000

Ray Vukcevich’s new collection includes 33 previously uncollected stories, all with his trademark whimsical skewed look at the world around us. . . a world of hidden stairs, funny smells, vampire girlfriends, fire women, missile boys, secret libraries, and outlandish (and yet frighteningly real) airline procedures.

‘There is no such thing as a typical Ray Vukcevich story. They all start a strong left turn from reality and then do the Charleston through a space warp.” Adam Troy-Castro

New story in a cool new magazine!

Ray — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:17:22 +0000

“The Problem of Furniture” in Phantom Drift — A Journal of New Fabulism

Fiction by Ray Vukcevich, Eliot Fintushel, David Eric Tomlinson, Peter Grandbois, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Daniel Grandbois, Nisi Shawl, Brian Evenson, Joe L. Murr, Geronimo G. Tagatac, and Stefanie Freele.

Poetry by Aaron Anstett, Joshua McKinney, Wade German, Anita Sullivan, Richard Crow, Stephen McNally, Jonathan Ball, and Lawrence Raab.

Non-fiction/Features by Thomas E. Kennedy, Jessica Plattner/Jodi Varon, Matt Schumacher, and Richard Schindler/Michael Chocholak.

Edited by David Memmott

Fiction Editor Leslie What

Poetry Editor Matt Schumacher

Welcome to my new site

Ray — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:07:31 +0000

I have never blogged before, so I do not know what I will say, how this will go, if there is any chance you will like what I do here. We’ll see. I want to talk about short fiction sooner or later. I want to talk about interstitial issues and literature. I am interested in virtual worlds and the way we are becoming multi-people with our social networks. I think I will talk about time soon. I will probably show you what I am cooking in the way of local foods. I’ll be posting a weekly sphere as I learn to use my new camera.

I will have a store, too. It’s already built, but I am still thinking about what writing to sell there. Watch for it to appear on the top menu bar soon.

The Los Angeles Review

Ray — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:46:35 +0000

“What The Socks Meant” Issue 9

“It is a story of realization and healing. The exploration of a common human moment – sometimes as small as a thought and other times as large as a decade – when a character fights his regrets and wrestles with self-compassion. . .” Stefanie Freele, Fiction editor

”My Eyes, Your Ears” Issue 6

Welcome to the Greenhouse

Ray — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:20:08 +0000

My story “Fish Cakes”.

“Climate modelers tend to rely on charts and graphs to get the message across. The contributors to this volume offer something else — stories.” From the Forward by Elizabeth Kolbert

From OR Books.

Edited by Gordon Van Gelder.

Forward by Elizabeth Kolbert.

Stories by Brian W. Aldiss, Jeff Carlson, Judith Moffett, Matthew Hughes, Gregory Benford, Michael Alexander, Bruce Sterling, Joseph Green, Pat MacEwen, Alan Dean Foster, David Prill, George Guthridge, Paul Di Filippo, Chris Lawson, Ray Vukcevich and M. J. Locke.

New story in a cool new magazine

Ray — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:21:11 +0000

“The Problem of Furniture”

Like Water for Quarks

Ray — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:01:19 +0000

My story “Going Places” is in this new anthology.