Nancy Jane Moore
Nancy Jane Moore writes all kinds of speculative fiction at lengths from flash to novels.
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Nancy Jane Moore's books include the science fiction novel, The Weave, published by Aqueduct Press, the novella Changeling, also from Aqueduct, and the collection Conscientious Inconsistencies, from PS Publishing. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and in magazines ranging from the National Law Journal to Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. She is a member of the author's co-op Book View Cafe, where she has five ebooks available and is a contributor to many of that publisher's anthologies. In addition to writing fiction, Nancy teaches empowerment self defense and is working on a book on self defense for women. She holds a fourth degree black belt in Aikido. A native Texan who lived in Washington, DC, for many years, she now resides in Oakland, California.
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Cakewalk
Published Aug 23, 2019 · 985 words (4 minutes) · 1 like · 122 views
Literary Fiction Cake Feminism football
I did, in fact, see a woman with a cake balanced on her head going up the escalator at Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. Some weeks later, I saw her again on the sidewalk. I never had the nerve to speak to her, so I wrote this story instead.
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Spinster
Published Jul 12, 2019 · 359 words (2 minutes) · 123 views
Classic Mother/daughter flash memoir spinster
This story is about my mother and me. It's flash memoir, not fiction, though of course all memoir is filtered through time and likely has fictional elements. It's an old story. I'm still technically a spinster, but I'm also in a committed relationship. The picture is of my mother at the age of 23. My mother loved this story. I never showed it to my father.
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Emergency
Published Jun 17, 2019 · 846 words (4 minutes) · 187 views
Fantasy Satire slipstream climate crisis
This story grew out of the weather alerts I got when I lived in Washington, D.C. Given the onslaught of weather disasters -- I was on a train traveling through thunderstorms and floods in the Midwest this summer and just talked to someone who lost things in a recent relatively small wildfire out here in California -- I'm not sure this story qualifies as speculative fiction anymore. But we can hope it does.
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Alternate Explanation
Published May 11, 2019 · 115 words (1 minute) · 1 like · 207 views
Humor Historical flash fiction Shakespeare
This is a very, very short story from back in the early days of Book View Cafe when I was publishing a flash fiction every week (eventually collected in Flashes of Illumination). I was inspired to post it by this article in The Atlantic.
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Survival Skills
Published May 3, 2019 · 2,587 words (10 minutes) · 1 like · 149 views
Science Fiction dystopia Aikido
This is a near future story, but since I wrote it back in the 1990s, it turns out to be set in the present day. I was going to change the dates for this reprint version, but when I re-read it I realized I had assumed a stock market crash in 2008. Given what actually happened in 2008, I'm a little scared to pick a new date for economic collapse. I'd rather not be right again.
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Phone Call Overheard on the Subway
Published Apr 10, 2019 · 199 words (1 minute) · 2 likes · 220 views
Fantasy slipstream modern life
I swear I heard a conversation very much like this one while traveling to work on the Washington DC Metro. It could be that I hadn't had quite enough coffee that morning.
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Until We Are All Free
Published Mar 16, 2019 · 6,298 words (23 minutes) · 1 like · 244 views
Fantasy Science Fiction steampunk
The third volume of Book View Cafe's Shadow Conspiracy anthology series started with the question, "What if the Emancipation Proclamation included freedom for automata with souls?" For Jasmine, an enslaved woman in Maryland who makes metalmen, the question is more than philosophical.
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Blindsided by Venus in the House of Mars
Published Feb 12, 2019 · 7,181 words (27 minutes) · 187 views
In honor of Valentine's Day, here's a space opera (with fight scenes) that's as close as I ever get to a love story. This story also appears in the Book View Cafe anthology Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls.
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The Ballad of Becca Sanjuro
Published Jan 17, 2019 · 3,726 words (14 minutes) · 301 views
The main characters in this military science fiction and love story are the parents of the protagonist in my novel The Weave.
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Passing
Published Dec 23, 2018 · 2,031 words (8 minutes) · 1 like · 338 views
I've posted this story in honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the model for the associate justice mentioned in the story. It's an old story, one of my first publications (it won a contest at the National Law Journal in the 1990s). At Clarion West, I discussed it with Michael Bishop, who thought my take on the Supreme Court might be too extreme. Given the way things are right now, I'm afraid my take might not be extreme enough.
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