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M. Darusha Wehm

Explorer of Worlds Real and Imagined

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    • Children of Arkadia
    • Andersson Dexter
      • Self Made
      • Act of Will
      • The Beauty of Our Weapons
      • Pixels and Flesh
    • Modern Love and other stories
    • The Voyage of the White Cloud
    • Retaking Elysium
    • The Qubit Zirconium
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      • Storm Cloud
      • Floating Point
    • The Home for Wayward Parrots
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    • KeyForge: Tales From the Crucible
    • Trans-Galactic Bike Ride
    • Fireweed: Stories from the Revolution
    • Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume I
    • The Dame Was Trouble
    • Dystopia Utopia Short Stories
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    • Procyon Press Science Fiction Anthology 2016
    • Use Only As Directed
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    • if ink could flow backward
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Writing

I have written in one form or another for most of my life. Until fairly recently, I mainly wrote poetry. I still write the odd poem, mostly classical haiku.

As a writer, I am best known for my Andersson Dexter series of science fiction/detective novels. The podcast version of three of my novels have been finalists in the Parsec Awards for excellence in speculative fiction podcasting.

My short fiction has appeared in Thaumatrope Magazine, Podioracket’s Glimpses anthology, Luna Station Quarterly and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and as episodes of Escape Pod and the Toasted Cake podcasts. I have had haiku in the twitter magazine @7X20 and the anthology 140 and Counting. There are also several short stories available to read for free in their entirety here on this site.

In the physical world, I used to be a civil servant with the Government of Canada and I’m now engaged more or less full-time in writing.

I’m a member of SpecFicNZ and the Codex writing community.

I was born in Canada and lived most of my life there. However, I have dual citizenship (Canada and New Zealand) and I am currently living in Wellington, New Zealand after sailing here from Canada with my partner, Steven. You can read about our journey on our sailboat, Scream, on our sailing blog.

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Retaking Elysium

Mars is good place to reinvent yourself, isn’t it?

Jules Morales’s life has always been a state of contact change. When the opportunity comes up, why not take a trip to Mars to work on the platinum mining operation—and make a load of money? But what if there is more to Mars than just a payday and an adventure?

The woman now calling herself Lisa Marie has spent her whole life trapped by the struggle to make ends meet, and sometimes held hostage by her own memories. On Mars she might finally find financial security, but will she also find something to care about today, and maybe even for the future?

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Free Stories

Lucidity

last night I had the most wonderful dream Carly moaned softly in her sleep, and rolled over. She dreamed and dreamed, and when she woke, she found that she still had the lingering shadow of a … Read More... about Lucidity

Major Tom and the Lucky Lady

I was balancing a cup of tea in one hand, while hanging on to the side of the companionway hatch with the other. I climbed into the cockpit sideways, compensating for the roll of the boat. I was only … Read More... about Major Tom and the Lucky Lady

The Foreigner

I slip into the fake-leather seat, and look at my watch. I have about an hour before the shareholders' meeting, but I have to stop by the day care first, so I want to make this snappy. I've found that … Read More... about The Foreigner

Publications

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  • A Most Elegant Solution
  • A Most Elegant Solution (audio)
  • A Wish and a Hope and a Dream
  • Alexander Systems
  • Fear of Lying
  • Force Nine
  • Good Hunting
  • Home Sick
  • Home Sick (audio)
  • Homecoming
  • I Open My Eyes
  • if ink could flow backward
  • Microfiction @Thaumatrope
  • Modern Love
  • Modern Love (audio)
  • Preventative Maintenance
  • recursion
  • Reflections on a Life Story
  • Showing the Colours (audio)
  • The Care and Feeding of Mammalian Bipeds, v. 2.1
  • The Interview
  • War Profiteering
  • War Profiteering (audio)
  • we are all energy

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Other Writing

Poetry

  • . ….. ..story .. time
  • 140 and Counting
  • creation myth
  • Force Nine
  • if ink could flow backward
  • recursion
  • we are all energy

Non-fiction

  • 90ways.com

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