The Mandelbrot Bet

“There are lines which are monsters.”
Eugène Delacroix
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Publication: December 2014 and 2017

At Dawn's Speed

My people are never still.  Even when we sleep, our bodies sort of twitch and shake.  We call ourselves the Run People – because that’s what we do.  Run.  And run.  Through the dark.  Always in the dark.  Away from the dawn. 
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Publication: July 2014

2084

What year is it? His mind shunted onto the default question. What year is it?
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Publication: July 2014

Tales of the Flame

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To the Persian Empire and the Roumans of Byzantium, the Rub‘ al-Khali desert in the south-eastern corner of Arabayyā is known as the Empty Quarter, a desolate place of endless sand mountains where nothing grows and nothing breathes. A place where the sun burns bright holes in the sky during the day and the stars shed bitter rays through the night. Yet the Arabayyāns themselves know the Rub‘ al-Khali as the place where the worlds of man and djinn bleed into each other, where desert magic still ekes out an existence.

Publication: June 2019 in Aurealis #121

Praise for Tales of the Flame

Strasser has woven together a nice blend of fantasy and horror mixed with Islamic and Persian myth. As an avid lover of world mythologies, the Islamic-Persian elements are a nice change to the Disney-esque wish-granters that one frequently finds in mainstream fiction. Most especially, it was a welcome return to the genuinely dangerous reality-bending nature of djinn, most especially the flesh-eating type known as the ghul.
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