S5E397 - Idiots and Isotopes - Urban SciFi - by Pat O'Malley

Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 11 a.m.

One man's text is another man's Chernobyl.

Contact info for Pat O'Malley:

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Bibliography: https://medium.com/@patrick.omalley_97144

“THE AUDIT,” was originally published in the November 2019 issue of the e-zine, The Weird and the Whatnot. It was also later published on the speculative fiction magazine website Teleport Magazine. https://www.teleportmagazine.com/2019/11/10/the-audit/.

“DEAR S.” was published on the website Dark Fire Fiction in 2019. http://darkfire.epizy.com/fiction_OMalley1219.html

“CHARON,” was originally published by the webzine Aphelion in their April 2020 issue. http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2020/04/Charon.html. It was later also published by the e-zine Corner Bar Magazine in their June 2020 issue http://www.cornerbarmagazine.com/pdfs/corner-bar-volume-05-issue-06.pdf

“A JOB WELL DONE” was written as part of a Gotham Writer’s Workshop course in NYC in 2018. It was first published by Piker Press in 2020. http://www.pikerpress.com/article.php?aID=7997

“PIERROT” was another story written as part of a GWW course in 2018. It was published by Scarlet Leaf Review in June of 2020.https://www.scarletleafreview.com/short-stories8/category/pat-omalley

“A DREAM OF FALLING” was written in 2020 and was first featured as a post for the IG account #spellboundstories. It was later published on the horror fiction e-zine Horla. http://horla.org/

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In 2015, poor control of my diabetes left me legally blind for the better part of a year. The doctors predicted an 80% chance I would never see again, but I changed the way I was living and through sheer willpower beat the odds.

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