The Short
Fiction of Mary E. Lowd
On this page, stories are organized by when they were written. My bibliography organizes stories by when they were published.
To buy e-books of my stories, check out either my Smashwords or Kindle pages.
On this page, stories are organized by when they were written. My bibliography organizes stories by when they were published.
To buy e-books of my stories, check out either my Smashwords or Kindle pages.
 | In a Cat's Eyes A Collie pup can never comprehend the depth and mystery behind a Siamese cat's eyes. [~1,000 words]
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| Shreddy and the Christmas Ghost An angry cat faces the true spirit of Christmas -- a rodential poltergeist. [~6,400 words]
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| Fox in the Hen House Can a fox kit be raised by a mother hen? [~2,200 words]
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| The Wharf Cat's Mermaid A club-footed kitten living the hard life of a stray in the Fisherman's Wharf discovers that one of the other cats is keeping a secret. [~8,300 words]
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 | Magtwilla and the Mouse A pregnant cat makes a fateful choice to protect her kittens. [~2,000 words]
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| The Most Complicated Avatar A woman can't find her 10-year-old daughter in real life... But, maybe, she can find her online. [~1,300 words]
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 | One Night in Nocturnia A mad mouse scientist uncovers truths that he should never know. [~3,900 words]
Awards: Nomination for Ursa Major Award for Best Short Fiction, 2012 |
| A Real Stand-Up Guy (with
Daniel Lowd) A pug dog comedian wrestles with mixed feelings about his on-stage persona. [~3,500 words]
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 | St. Kalwain and the Lady Uta A man cursed by the faerie queen must slay a dragon to earn his freedom. [~8,400 words]
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 | Hot Chocolate for the Unicorn The Dragon and Unicorn come calling. [~1,000 words]
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Fetching Asteroids Jordan is a Labrador Retriever with a dream. [~300 words]
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The Canoe Race (with
Daniel Lowd) When Camp Riverwind closes at the end of the summer, the local animals hold their own summer camp. [~3,500 words]
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Where the Heart Is Four aliens from Crossroads Station go on a camping trip. [~4,700 words]
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Shreddy and the Zomb-dogs An angry cat and an empty-headed Labradoodle must protect their neighborhood from techno-mystically raised zomb-dogs. [~4,200 words]
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Meet Archive A story-telling robot gets lost in his own stories. [~2,400 words]
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 | Einray and the Biologist A physicist and a biologist at Wespirtech get competitive with world-threatening results. [~4,600 words]
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Harvesting Wishes Where do wishes come from? Dandelions? Genies? ... Or asteroids? [~1,800 words]
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Little Sandy Starstrong and her Faithful
Robot Dogs Growing up among the asteroids with her two robotic dogs, Sandy feels like something is missing. [~2,200 words]
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 | One Sheep There are many paths that a sheep living on a farm may take in life. [~500 words]
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Daisy Chaining A boastful young spaceman traps himself into racing a frezzipod through an asteroid field. [~1,300 words]
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| Apples in Aruba Have a quick lunch at the All Alien Cafe. [~100 words]
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 | We Can Remember It For You Retail What happens when memory, technology, love, and digital rights intersect. [~3,600 words]
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The Ambi-Cognitive Man Two brothers travel to a tiny colony in the far reaches of space where everyone is conjoined twins. They expect to find a place where they belong; instead, they're forced to question the very meaning of individuality. [~8,700 words]
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Gerty & the
Doesn't-Smell-Like-a-Melon Snuffle-snorting around the melon patch, Gerty finds something that does not smell like a melon. [~2,100 words]
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Slug Time A young scientist struggles against the clock and procrastination to translate thoughts through a direct brain interface with a slug. [~2,900 words]
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The
Nebula Was Empty Fear the love of a mega-dimensional nebula beast. [~700 words]
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Kitty Willow
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The Necromouser An angry cat discovers the techno-mystical ability to raise mice from the dead. [~2,500 words]
Awards: Meager Puddle of Limelight for Best Short Story Title, 2nd Place (July 2012) |
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The Third Wish Jealous of his half-brother's elven magic, a fisherman begins studying magic himself. [~3,000 words]
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Emmanuel and the Cannibals A colony stranded on an under-evolved world has an unusual response to the introduction of terran bovines. [~4,500 words]
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 | A Second Enchanted Evening Bomani convinces his wife to join him in using memory drugs to make their anniversary more romantic; instead, the drugs force them to face the true state of their relationship. [~6,800 words]
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Life with the Tumblers Arlene takes her young son Kyan on a research expedition into an alien culture of sentient trees. [~5,500 words]
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The Screen Savior What happens when a screen saver comes to life... [~1,400 words]
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Forget Me Not Can a bad memory be the secret to success? [~2,600 words]
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Of Behemoths and Bureaucrats Rhea brings her traveling carnival act to the Hegula Hephaesta mining colony to visit the new sun garden, but she and her Starwhals get caught in a battle for interstellar independence that threatens her three gentle giants. [~4,000 words]
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The Parable of Two Queens Can Commander Dyall and his team of translators -- a pair of gengineered parrots -- fathom the minds of myrmecoid warriors from another galaxy well enough to broker peace? [~3,400 words]
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 | "Viewers Like You" In the future, androids will pay you to watch TV. [~1,800 words]
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 | My Words Like Silent Raindrops A young scientist gets in over her head when she introduces technological telepathy to her friends. [~4,500 words]
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 | The Faithless, the Tentacled, and the Light Nicole is sent to investigate a mysterious outcropping of buildings in the Banti'phi asteroid belt. [~5,800 words]
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Rekindle the Sun A dying world may not be the best place to start your life anew. [~9,300 words]
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 | The Opposite of Suicide Dennis discovers the fragile, fractile nature of his life. [~1,500 words]
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| The Genetic Menagerie Two cops chase down a rogue scientist, leading them to the fantastical world he's built with genetic engineering. [~6,600 words]
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