“Delivery for 3C at Song View” published in Diabolical Plots! This is my first publication of 2022, but I sold it about a year ago now, so I’ve been sitting on this one for a little while :)
“Delivery for 3C at Song View” is a contemporary fantasy piece about a delivery driver (Door Dasher) who can passively, and inadvertently, grant wishes. When one customer she delivers to makes an offhand wish, chaos and hilarity ensues. There’s an underlying serious tone to this humorous piece, so that it has depth, dealing with the idea of being enslaved to wishes, and the easy casualness we wish for things.
One of the cool things about this story is that when I originally wrote it, I honestly thought there was no way I’d sell it. I thought it wasn’t serious enough, it wasn’t thematic enough, it wasn’t something, and yet I had an absolute blast writing it. I just didn’t know what in the world to do with it. I want to give a shout out to my fellow Odyssey graduate, Vikram Ramakrishnan, for pointing out the themes I had in the story and giving me the confidence to submit it–no one might be reading it otherwise so I’m very grateful <3
I also want to thank both David Steffan and Kel Colemen for being such great editors to work with. They found ways to make the story more seamless and suggested changes that just elevated the whole experience. So many, many thanks and appreciation for the work they put in :)
You can read the story for free on Diabolical Plots’ site here!
<3 Marie C.
Marie Croke 