Two market researchers in a high capitalist future walk into an Illinois Costco and decide that the big box isn’t big enough for the both of them. That’s the premise of my latest short story, “The Uncool Hunters,” which premiered last week on Escape Pod, episode 894. You can read it on their website or listen to it wherever you get your podcasts.

Here’s the opening graf:

Before she settled down into publishing in Minneapolis, before she got taken for a ride by the Chicago AltNormLit scene, before she flared spectacularly out of Silicon Alley, and had her pilot shoot C&Ded by the City of Santa Barbara, and narrowly avoided cryptocollar prison in the floodzone formerly known as Tampa, Rocky Cornelius was a fucking uncool hunter.

I also wrote about the rather intense thinking behind this rather silly story in my newsletter, solarshardes.club.

I hope to be publishing more of Rocky Cornelius’s various adventures as a creative consultant, but in the meantime, I’m stoked for this story to be out in the world. Give it a read!