I just got an email from Orson Scott Card, saying he’s buying two of my stories for his new online magazine, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show.
One of the stories is “Salt of Judas,” which was my Writers of the Future workshop 24-hour story back in 2004. (I’ve since revised it.) The story is a fantasy about an oil painter in the Middle Ages who gets some rather unusual supplies from the new apothecary.
The other story is “Taint of Treason,” a very short fantasy story about a teenager who is supposed to execute his innocent father in order to prove his blood is not tainted by treason.
OSC’s magazine will launch this fall. I’m not sure if my stories will be in the first and/or second issue.