Fiction
I write humor, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and occasionally mystery. If you’d like to be updated when I publish something, email me at ronfein.fiction AT gmail dot com. I promise I won’t spam you.
2022
- A Daronite Fence – Superstition (Redwood Press), forthcoming Jan. 2023
- Arkham Board of Health Feedback On Miskatonic University’s Draft Plan for a Safe Campus Reopening – LOLcraft: A Compendium of Eldritch Humor anthology (Dragon’s Roost Press), Dec. 2022 (reprint)
- Can You See Me, Sailor? – Eidetic Quarterly #1, October 2022
- True Skin – Nom Nom: Hallowe’en Dark Drabbles anthology (Black Hare Press), Oct. 1, 2022
- The Bells – Nom Nom: Hallowe’en Dark Drabbles anthology (Black Hare Press), Oct. 1, 2022
- The Way of the Unicorn – The Bookends Review, Aug. 18, 2022 (reprint)
- The Magic Box of Le Chat Sauvage de Lyon – Phantasmical Contraptions and More Errors anthology (JayHenge Publishing), Aug. 14, 2022
- Time-Tested Strategies for Escaping Conversations About Elon Musk -Slackjaw, July 11, 2022
- Upper Beta Great Alcove Very Happy – Daily Science Fiction, July 6, 2022
- “You Idiots Really Screwed This Up”: A Message from Henry David Thoreau on the Turning of the Seasons, Climate Change, and the Purple Bladderwort – What Would Henry Do? Essays for the 21st Century, Vol. II anthology (Thoreau Farm Trust), July 6, 2022
- Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention Concerning a Council of Oracles – Sci Phi Journal, Mar. 2022
- Immune – Corridors anthology (Innsmouth Gold), Feb. 2022
2021
- Another Beloved Show Goes Off the Rails: The Disturbing Seasons 13-18 of “Your Child’s Life” – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Feb. 9, 2021
2020
- Hercule Poirot Solves the Case of the COVID Comorbidities – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Sept. 15, 2020
- Arkham Board of Health Feedback On Miskatonic University’s Draft Plan for a Safe Campus Reopening – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Aug. 20, 2020; reprinted in LOLcraft: An Compendium of Eldritch Humor (Dragon’s Roost Press), Dec. 2022
- The Broken Lives Behind the Illustrative Math Word Problems – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, July 8, 2020
- ”Who’s Laughing Now, Assholes?”: A Letter from Henry David Thoreau to Literature Faculties at Cushy Liberal Arts Schools – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Apr. 29, 2020; 13th-most viewed piece of 2020; republished Dec. 10, 2020 with author interview
Older
- The Way of the Unicorn – Redivider, spring 2004; reprinted in Bookends Review, Aug. 18, 2022
- Regrade rocked by ideological assault – Seattle Weekly, 1998