The latest stories, poems, and games from author, poet, and game writer Stewart C Baker.
The Butterfly Disjunct: And Other Stories
A short story collection exploring the expanse of human experience across infinite futures.
A scientist haunted by an impossible ghost. A cocky poet attempting to outrun peace. A grieving mother looking for life beneath Europa’s icy surface. A ship AI desperate to rescue its beloved crew. An ongoing fight against the end of existence. Equal parts earnest and strange, Stewart C Baker’s stories span the breadth of human emotion, space, and time. In this debut collection, gender and genre collide to celebrate relationships and empathy in all their forms.
Published November 4, 2024, from Interstellar Flight Press.
Record of Lumber Used in the Great Temple’s Main Hall
The empress wants a new temple, no matter the cost. The priestess thinks it hubris to tear down the trees that house the primordial spirits. As a storm rises, their childhood friend must decide where she stands.
A fantasy short story published December 26, 2024 at The Archive.
(image credit: Diana Lisunova on Unsplash.)
Seven Sapphic Sci-fi Shorts
This short ebook collection, released on December 21st 2024, contains seven reprinted science fiction stories with sapphic protagonists.
Available in PDF and EPUB on itch.io.
Fovermore: A Game of Writing Horror
You are Allen Edgar Poet. Can you balance broodiness and distraction until you finish your greatest work?
Written in under 4 hours for ECTOCOMP 2024.
A Death in Hyperspace
When your captain dies suspiciously halfway through a hyperspace transit, you know you’re in trouble. Not because you need a captain — as an embodied AI spaceship, you can pilot yourself just fine — but because, as an aficionado of mysteries and detective stories, you know there’s only one explanation: murder most foul.
Written with Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, M. Darusha Wehm, and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor for IFComp 2024.
The List Making Habits of Heartbroken Ships
Ship lost their old crew, and ever since they’ve been running. Going from port to port. Making lists to keep themself safe.
Do they dare let an unlikely pair of new passengers on board?
A science fiction story about anxiety and moving forwards, published August 2024 in The Neurodiversiverse from Thinking Ink Press.
White Lies Cast Dark Shadows
Jordan was always too scared to share the truth. So was Max.
When Jordan moves back home after a long instance, the habit casts a deadly shadow over them both.
A horror short story, published August 2024 in Carpe Noctem from Tyche Press.
Flowers for an Infinite Grave
“On the hundredth day after Tariq’s death, Zara wakes to light on her face, the mirrors turning it white-orange with reflected heat.”
A story about death, mourning, memory—and the multiverse, in the Spring 2024 edition of Kaleidotrope.
Companion Animals in Mahō Shōjo Kira Kira Sunlight
“Companion Animals in Mahō Shoujō Kira Kira Sunlight” is a short story in the style of a Wikipedia article describing Mahō Shōjo Kira Kira Sunlight, a (fictional) American web series created by an unknown animator or animators.
The story is a mashup of anime, cosmic horror, and metafiction, and is out in print and audio in the February 2024 issue of Lightspeed Magazine!
