Story Sale – “Death’s Flag Is Never At Half-Mast”

Once upon a time, I read the first three stories in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series. And those, quite fine, books inspired me to write this blog post.

I didn't write the novel described in that post. Instead I wrote a 2500 word short story, and I recently sold that story to the newly-established online magazine Redstone Science Fiction. This is not really…