by Alinta Thornton

About writing and other stuff.

Stories

Fiction

Pawn Takes Bishop
Urban fantasy short story, published in Ticonderoga Online, January 2000. This is the very first short story I ever wrote, literally (unless you count the ones I did at school), so getting it published was amazing.

Narelle Gets Her Nails Done
Urban fantasy flash story, published in Antipodean SF, July 2002

Wine Cries over the Sea
Urban fantasy short story, published in Fables and Reflections 3, 2002

Santa Drove me Home in a Taxi
Urban fantasy short story, published in Fables and Reflections 3, 2002

The Collector
Fantasy short story, published in Borderlands 2, September 2003.

Honourable mention in Years Best Fantasy and Horror 17, Ellen Datlow et al, eds.

Kathleen, Furnished with Bees
Dark fantasy/horror short story, originally accepted for Redsine, but then Redsine folded; published in Dark Animus, November 2003.

Short listed for Aurealis Award 2005, Horror short story category.

Tanglehound
Science fiction short story, published in Fables and Reflections 5, 2003

Reviewed in Asimovs.

Private Moment
Science fiction flash story, published in Visions magazine, Feb 2004.

Honourable mention, Magic Casements flash fiction competition, September 2003.

Terraforming Lily
Fantasy story published in The Between Space, an anthology of short stories May 2004.

The Healing Soup of Chu Chou Village
Horror/fantasy story published in Orb 6, June 2004.

Nominated for Speculative Literature Foundation Fountain Award, 2005

Non-fiction

Does Internet Create Democracy?
- read my Masters Thesis (some nice light reading!) 1996, updated 2002, published in Ecquid Novi Vol 22(2) 2001 at p 126.

A Parents' Guide to the Suzuki Method
Published Music Sales, 1983. It went to two editions and sold in 15 countries, now out of print (but you can buy a second-hand copy on Amazon for over US$100!). It's an introduction to the Suzuki Method for parents of prospective students.

We all have human frailties - there's no such thing as a 'dumb mistake'
I originally called this "There's no such thing as a dumb mistake", and the editor added the other part, which I'm not too fond of. It's an article about user-centred design, which is what I do for a living these days.

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