As seen on Twitter: Guess it’s safe to announce my story “Chitai Heiki Koronbīn” will be in The Future is Japanese, edited by Nick Mamatas, due out this May from Haikasoru.

For those of you keeping score at home, “CHK” is a sort of follow-on to a flash piece called “What We Talk About When We Talk About Giant Robots,” which I wrote for the 40th anniversary issue of Daruma, the student-run literary magazine of the American School in Japan. It’s flash, it’s short; you can read it here. I’m not sure just where Maddy Flores is going, but I don’t think the journey’s over yet.