RKeelan

I am a writer and programmer living in Canada. See below for my published stories.

2025

• “Hard Points” in James Gunn’s Ad Astra, July, 2025.
  • “Lockdown initiated. Virate presence detected.”
  • About 5,000 words.
• “None of Us Irreplaceable” in Unnamed Journal, Winter, 2025.
  • A besieged city needs a change of leadership.
  • About 5,000 words.

2023

• “Oh Exemplary Restraint, So Rare in the Modern World!” in On Spec Magazine, Fall, 2023.
  • A young woman gets a new job with some unexpected consequences.
  • About 2,700 words.

2021

• “I Am A Quine, I Cannot Change” in Polar Borealis [PDF], September 10th, 2021.
  • A computer program on a space probe far from home.
  • About 500 words.

2020

• “The Original Sin of William Blackhand” in Mysterion Online, October 26th, 2020.
  • In Fourteenth Century England, a young man witnesses a miracle.
  • About 5,500 words.

2018

• “The Waltzing Tree” in Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins, edited by Derek Newman-Stille and published by Exile Editions, December 2018.
  • A man, a tree, and their house.
  • About 3,000 words.
• “Disposal of Non-Conforming Product” in The Arcanist, June 1st, 2018.
  • A story about a Quality Incident.
    • Okay, okay, it’s way more than a Quality Incident.
  • About 900 words.
• “Piecework Hangman” in Daily Science Fiction, May 14th, 2018.
  • A story about an honest man and his day’s work.
  • About 500 words.

2016

• “I Change Therefore I Am” in AE Micro 2016, May 2nd, 2016.
  • A story about the perils of giving commit access to your source code repository.
  • About 200 words.