The Maiden Voyage
of Novyy Mir
This definitive collection of short stories and 100-word drabbles from author Stephen G. Parks’ early career covers a wide range of genres from deep space conflict to Shakespearean scenes to a dystopian near future.
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Short Stories from Novyy Mir that are on this site
- SHORT STORY: Romeo’s Remorse Recontextualizes Romeo by considering his time in Mantua
- SHORT STORY: The Wager, an experiment in steampunk.
- SHORT STORY: The War on Christmas, which I have to keep revising as Fox News fires its anchors.
The journey towards publishing this collection
- Novyy Mir’s cover has changed over editions. The Evolution of a cover
- The hardest part of being a writer? You can’t tell which of your stories will be popular
- The Year in Writing (So far) 2016
Among the stories included:
Every day is the same: we get up, we work hard, one or two of us die. It’ll be my turn soon enough.
Deacon Carver, sixteen, lives in a dead-end town. Generations come and generations go. No one really escapes. So why not play deadly games?
The Sylvester is being attacked by pirates around the far side of the Moon. The yacht’s fate depends on the owner’s spoiled man-child and his bickering friends.
The Grim Reaper has been summoned by many a foolish person over the course of history. But this summons, from the IRS, feels…different.
Jeremy just wants to honor his dead wife. But in a world where memories are forced to fade, doing so will mean evading detection of a surveillance state.
William Shakespeare seems to have left out one important scene: Romeo’s time in exile. So here it is, a lonely Romeo decries his missing love…Rosaline?
