Rob Hartzell (writer)

Here are links to stories I’ve published so far (or, at least, the places they’ve appeared).  Red text indicates stories which are part of the Pictures of the Floating-Point World story-cycle.

• “My Backup: Myself” & “Those Who Control the Means of Reduction” – Fictionette.com, April 2023 (Hard copy also available.)
• “Where Spirits Dance and Phantoms Touch” – Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, October 2021, Best of Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, vol v: June 2k21 to April 2k22 (Aug. 2022)
• “The Pure Souls” – New Reader Magazine, Issue 1 – Free view of issue at issuu.com. (Note: When the story was laid out for publication, some editing errors crept in: The section breaks are missing, and in one case [p. 176], a break was replaced by a segment from someone else’s story entirely.)
• “The River and the Fallen” – Event Horizon, Issue 11, March 2017; shortlisted for 2020 Hammond House Literary Prize and reprinted in the Survival anthology (Hammond House), Feb. 2021
• “01, 10” – The London Reader (Love 2.0 issue), Spring 2017 (the issue is available as a PDF for a donation of any amount)
• “[CLASSIFIED] Pentagon UIPTSD-001 [DRAFT]” – The Black Rabbit, Autumn 2016
• “The Clockwork Houri” – Corner Bar Magazine, Walpurgisnacht 2016
• “The Libertine’s Lament” – Flapperhouse, Spring 2016
• “Leaving Babylon” – 3288 Review, Feb. 2016
• “The Duckling Swan” – After Lines (Erebus Press), 2016
• “The Erotic Death-Machines of Terry Gordon” – Typehouse Magazine, January 2016
• “The Hives and the Hive-Nots” – Gothic Fantasy: Science Fiction Stories (Flame Tree Press), Oct. 2015
• “The Foucault Cell” – Milkfist, July 2015
• “Year Zero” – Sparks of Consciousness, June 2015
• “120 Years” – The Upender, June 2015
• “The Dead and Eternal” – Startling Sci-Fi: New Tales of the Beyond (New Lit Salon Press), May 2015
• “The Horizontal Fugue” – Flash Fiction Magazine, Feb. 18, 2015
• “Bartonville Scene Report” – Maudlin House, Oct. 2014
• “Boys with Antlers, Girls with Wings” – Flyover Country Review, Mid-March 2014
• “The Geisha Tiresias” – Eunoia Review, Apr. 9, 2013; reprinted in Gothic Fantasy: Robots and Artificial Intelligence (Flame Tree Press), September 2018

[UPDATED 2021-10-09: Added links for Hammond House, changed links for Flapperhouse, Sparks of Consciousness, Startling Sci-Fi, and New Reader Magazine]