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Charles J Staniland’s (1838-1916) ‘The cockhorse regiment: a medieval episode’ (1880). The image shows a group of children, known as the Cockhorse Regiment, who took part in the children's crusade of 1212.
“My Good Children” — The Orange & Bee, August, 2024
art by Nora Kelly
“Daughter of the Stones” — The Razor, March, 2024
“YOLO and Then Some” — Frivolous Comma, August 2023
“Joolie and Irdl” (reprint)— After the Storm, March, 2023
“The Weapon Weeps for the Hand that Holds It” — From the Ashes: An Anthology of Elemental Urban Fantasy, March 2023
“Mindful Objects” — Winner of the 2022 ServiceScape Short Story Award December 2022
“Spare Universe” — Felis Futura: An Anthology of Future Cats, June 2022
The Last Five Minutes of the Storm is a short story and poetry collection that revolves around the themes of grief, power and endurance, considered “a stunning collection of writings” by Joseph O’Connor, author of 2019 Novel of the Year.
“I Am Pirli, You Are Oona” (reprint) — Breath and Shadow, Spring 2022, Vol 19, no 2
“Hey Diddle Diddle” — Strange Wars: Speculative Fiction of Coalitions in Conflict, May 2022
“Kiss Me in the Rain” — Factor Four Magazine December 31, 2021
“The Adventures of WaterBear and MossPiglet” (reprint) — Bards and Sages Quarterly, April 2022
“The Talking Bears of Greikengkul” — Reckoning, May 15, 2021
“A story that at first seems like it’ll be fun, almost light, but that draws down and down into human trespass against a group of bears, how they were given speech but not really dignity, and where that leaves them and a young woman who has grown her life around these talking bears. Interesting with a chilling end. Bears, Speech, School, Family. CW- Violence/Death, Confinement, Body Modification/Experimentation.” -Charles Payseur, Quick Sip Reviews
Full review here
Audio version, narrated by Sandy, available at the Reckoning Press Podcast May 2022
“Matter and Time Conspire” — Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January/February 2021
“Lullabies for AGIs” — Heavy Metal Jupiters and Other Stories November 2020
“You and Me and Mars” (reprint) — StarShipSofa, April 22, 2020
— Zooscape, March 1, 2020
“Releasing the Tigers” — Alternative Apocalypse, edited by Debora Godfrey and Bob Brown, August 2019
Artwork by Leonor Fini
“Ladali” — Machinations and Mesmerism: Tales Inspired by E.T.A. Hoffman, edited by Farah Rose Smith, July 2019
Illustration by Reiko Murakami
“You and Me and Mars” — Luna Station Quarterly, Issue 031, September 2017
Review from SFF Reviews: https://sffreviews.com/2017/12/01/review-you-and-me-and-mars-by-sandy-parsons/
Joolie and Irdl” — Escape Pod, Episode 534, narrated by Nicola Seaton-Clark, July 1, 2016
“I am Pirli, You are Oona” — Everyday Fiction January 30, 2015
“Doggone” —The World of Myth, 2011, Reprinted in The World of Myth Anthology: Volume 3, 2018
“Adipose Destiny” — Tabard Inn, #2, 2007
“Riding Out the Legacy” — Unparalleled Journeys, Edited by Edward Knight and David M. Fitzpatrick, 2005
“It’s a It’s a well told story about social politics, survival, and the human spirit.” - Scott M. Sandridge, Tangent Online, full review here.
“Friends and Food” — Nth Degree, May 2005
Ilustration by Alan F. Beck
“The Myrmidalion” — Amazing Journeys Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 3, Spring 2004