I’m happy to announce that I started the year with two short story sales. My story, “The Last Cloud Painter,” will be appearing at some point in the future in Asimov’s magazine. I’ve been working on this story for at least 10 years, though I couldn’t quite figure out the ending until a year or two ago. The idea for the story came to me in a dream. I’m so glad that it will finally be seeing print.

I also sold a story, “Voices Singing in the Void,” to Clarkesworld magazine. I’ve been trying to get into Clarkesworld for a long time, and I’m immensely pleased to have a story coming out there (at some future point). This story was inspired by the beautiful writing I had the good fortune to read when I attended the Sycamore Hill writing workshop last year. Sometimes there’s nothing more inspiring than extremely talented peers.

Now I have to get to writing more stories…

So first of all, let’s just acknowledge that I am terrible at updating this website (and for following through with advent calendars). As I come to terms with managing my ADHD, I am becoming aware of all the ways I overcommit. It’s doesn’t get any easier to not want to start new things, but I am at least aware.

But that’s not the good news! I have a new story out, my first in over a year. It’s called “Your Ticket to Hell” and it is currently available in this month’s issue of Fantasy Magazine. It’s a short one (maybe my shortest?), but, well, let’s just say it’s not light. But if you have a moment and are interested, maybe you’ll check it out. And if so, feel free to let me know what you think here in the comments.

The story was also narrated by the eminent and talented Stefan Rudnicki, so if you prefer to listen to your stories, the audio version is also available at the link.

Hope you’ll check it out.

So maybe I was a bit ambitious to commit to this project with everything going on in December…

BUT…

I’m trying to get back on track. I only have the following rough demo to offer for tonight but will post more tomorrow to try to get back on track.

If you’re following all of this, thanks for all of your patience.

http://www.rajankhanna.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Stole-the-Sun.mp3

I’ll make this short since I’m just getting this in under the wire. This one is called Come Lay Down with Me and was written 25 years ago (which should be taken into consideration). This was also the first song I ever wrote for another person.

Hope you like it.

This one is short, simple, and sad. It’s called The Rain is So Cold. Another one I recorded quickly, but still planning to crank these out for another 3 weeks…