The Wayward Wormhole – Barbados February 2026 / The Art of the Novella
Novellas are growing in popularity, and we want to help yours stand out. Structurally, they can get tricky—they’re
March 21, 2025
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Welcome to the website of Cat Rambo: writer, editor, teacher, and podcaster. Here you can find links to my writing, classes, and other Cat Rambo miscellania.
Since coming through Clarion West in 2005, Cat Rambo’s 300+ fiction publications have included stories in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and frequently appear in year’s best of collections. They work across genre, writing literary, thriller, science fiction, slipstream, fantasy, magic realism, historical, and humor with fluid ease, making them one of the leaders in American story writing.
Novellas are growing in popularity, and we want to help yours stand out. Structurally, they can get tricky—they’re
Welcome to the town of Waatch! It’s not on this planet, but where it resides in its world closely resembles Anacortes, Washington. It’s right there
(science fiction, short story) Because mermaids lay eggs, hundreds at a time, at least that kind did. And the natural-born ones, they didn’t have human minds guiding them. They were like sharks—they ate, they killed, they ate. Most of the original human mermaids had gotten out when they found out that the seas were full of chemicals, or that instead of whale songs down there, they heard submarine sonar and boat signals. When the last few found out that they were spawning whether they liked it or not, they got out too. Supposedly one or two stayed, and now they live in the sea with their children, twice as mean as any of them.
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