Gabrielle Bleu

Year in Review

  • 2024 in review

    In 2024 I had three pieces of fiction published. “What Lingers in the Trench Depths” follows two entities attempting to clean up an ecological collapse while navigating new, alien feelings. I’d been shopping this story around for several years – I knew it was a hard sell with weird, purposefully obtuse language and vaguely described…

  • 2022 Publications

    In 2022 I had two short stories and one article published, and put out a tabletop game supplement. Archive of the Odd Issue 2: A Supernatural History published my story Birdwatching Notebook Found on A Colorado Trailhead. The story is told in the form of a birdwatching notebook, as a birdwatcher finds that they are…

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  • Stories that brought me solace in 2020

    Last year I did a general favorite books and favorite short stories of 2019 post. This year, I thought I’d do my year end favorites post a little differently. Some of my favorite books I read this year were also kind of huge bummers and I don’t really have the energy to talk about them…

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  • 2020 in Review

    2020 was my first year out of graduate school, and it made such a tremendous difference on my writing output. In 2019, I had 27 story submissions – no small feat, to be sure. But in 2020, I submitted short stories 42 times, and completed four new short stories on top of the ones I…

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  • Favorite Books of 2019

    This year in books was kind of a rough one for me. I didn’t get a lot of reading done in the first half the year (except for reference books for thesis reasons). Freed from grad school, I tried to make some forays into genres I typically don’t read, driven by a dearth of new…

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  • Favorite Short Stories of 2019

    I was in my second year of my Master’s degree this year, and working on completing and defending my thesis. So I didn’t get quite as much reading for fun in as I would have liked (but, boy, did I read a lot about disaster planning and preparedness). Here’s my favorite short stories I managed…