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Alexis Ames

2025: My Year in Review

Published 7 months ago • 1 min read

Alexis Ames

Cosmic Scribbles

What I've Been Up To:

It's a long email today! We're taking a look at 2025, and then talking a bit about what 2026 has in store.

I had 10 short stories published this year. I've listed them below, with links and summaries so you can check them out:

​“Maintenance” – Andromeda Spaceways Magazine Issue #97, co-written with Kat Veldt.

An engineer encounters unexpected guests mid-flight on a generation ship.

​“Valiant” – Black Cat Weekly

A rock band enroute to the next stop on their galactic tour encounters intruders on their spaceship.

​“Invictus” – Pulp Lit Mag

Two lovers compete for a spot on the first crewed mission to Mars.

​“Specter” – After Dinner Conversation

A woman resurrects her wife, with unintended consequences.

​“The Knight’s Redemption” – Blackwick Writers Guild

Two knights go on a quest twenty-five years after their failed bid to slay a dragon.

​“Fortunate One” – The Brussels Review

An AI of a woman wreaks havoc on her life.

“Sanctuary” – Escape Pod (Part 1, Part 2)

A Martian agent is tasked with finding and protecting the heir to the galactic throne.

​“Fragments” – Black Cat Weekly

In this dystopian future, a chip implanted in the brain changes the way we work.

​“The Old God of Crystal Creek” – TL;DR Press

A campground host struggles to drum up business for his haunted campground.

​“If Memory Serves” – Neon Dystopia

A dystopian noir story about a homme fatale who is in the business of memory modification.

The Latest:

Latest Watch

​Death by Lightning (a riveting historical drama about President Garfield and his assassin); Pluribus (a sci-fi drama about a grumpy lesbian writer and the hive mind that won't leave her alone); The Beast in Me (a thriller about a sad lesbian writer and the murderer who moves next door to her.)

Latest Read

​The Third Pole - about the quest to find Sandy Irvine's body on Everest.

​All of Us Murderers - KJ Charles, murder, and romance, what more can I say?

What's Next:

Things are moving along nicely for THE CHAMOS PROJECT. We've done line edits and copy edits, and now it's with the proofreader. The cover design is finished, and that will be revealed in the next week or so to newsletter subscribers!

ARCs will also be going out in a couple of weeks! If you're interested in receiving a free ebook ARC in exchange for an honest review, sign up here.

Add THE CHAMOS PROJECT on Goodreads or Storygraph! The release date is currently slated for February 17, 2026.

And what happens after TCP is out there in the world? I have 2 more queer sci-fi books right behind it, so stay tuned for news about those.

Read free stories and more at my website:

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Alexis Ames

Writer of queer sci-fi and fantasy

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