I'm Matthew F. Amati, a science fiction, fantasy, and other-things writer living in the far North. About 50 of my short stories have appeared in print or online (see the list to the right) and I have two novels that you can get hold of right now if you like: Loompaland and Konstantinople. I'm an occasional drop-in at Armadillocon in Austin TX and sometimes can be seen dropping things off the moon onto the heads of people who type two spaces after a period.
As of Spring 2024, I've got a raft of new stories under review, and a couple of forthcoming stories (in Dragon Gems and Blood Moon Rising). The new novel "The Rude Mechanicals" is complete, but I'm giving it a more optimistic ending. I was in a cranky mood when I wrote it because people kept typing two spaces after a period and it gets under a person's skin, you know?
New story collection "For Sale, Baby Shoes, Feet Included"
My probably-illegal comix collection BOY UND BEAST can be purchased at this secret link!
LOOMPALAND
Capitalism, industry, and workers' rights come to a sticky end in this modernist fable featuring tech titan William R. Wonka and his fed-up guest workers.
Buy it on Amazon..............
KONSTANTINOPLE
An adventure, a postmodern romp,a vivid fantasy. The end of the world happens, but another one comes along, and there's plenty of Goodman's Good Brown Beer
Buy in on Amazon or better yet in fine bookstores...............
THE BIBLE
The original BIBLE worked just fine back when people owned camels, ate locusts and wild honey, dwelt in the Land of Nod. But who does those things anymore?
Buy it on Lulu, purveyors of cheap homemade books..............
HARP FOR A BROKEN HAND
A work in search of a publisher, this dark fantasy sends a half dead unicorn and a twist-fingered harpist on a desperate quest through a land of bric-a-brac
Planet Earth Just Blew And There’s Nothing I Can Do (Daily Science Fiction, September 2020)
The Rude Mechanicals (Space Squid, July 2015)
The Rude Mechanicals Vs. the Anti-Copernican Platypus (Space Squid, July 2016)
The Rude Mechanicals Find a Three-Letter Word for God Space Squid (October 2022)
Apocalypse Rock Across The Universe anthology of Beatles sci-fi. (December 2019)
Space Pussy! (Nasty: Fetish Fights Back, May 2017
Meat and Fire (Daily Science Fiction, February 2016)
“My Parents Went to Vega and All I Got Was This Lousy Robot.” (Antipodean SF, February 2018)
Last Day of the Universe (Daily Science Fiction, September 2016)
“Defender of the Flesh” (Bewildering Stories, December 2017)
Sky Widows (Perihelion SF, December 2016)
In Zarbok’s Kitchen (Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, Feb. 2017) (subscription required).
Plastic Mom and Dad (Darkfuse [subscription required], August 2016.)
My Bologna Has a First Name (Daily Science Fiction, March 2017)
The Persistence of Tim (Sci Phi Journal, March 2016)
To Whup A Universe (Space Squid, December 2015)
“The Fine Print” Sci Fi Lampoon, October 2020
Where The Wind Blows the Water "Mermaidens" anthology (September 2022)
Let The Day Be Darkness(Fabula Argentea, July 2018)
Three Tales for the Headless Child (The Fabulist, October 2018)
Tale Without Fairies (Syntax & Salt, December 2017)
Said The Moonlit Moth To The Horse Half-Dead (in the Tumbled Tales anthology, June 2023)
Vs. The Giant (Daily Science Fiction, August 2022)
“Shuffle Duffle Muzzle Muff” (Daily Science Fiction, April 2018).
The Invention of EverythingDragon Roots (Fall 2019)
Forever Hold Your TimepieceDragon Roots (Fall 2018)
Our Lady Cinderella of the Dying World.
Face Time (Flash Fiction Online, February 2015)
To Comfort the Headless Child (Flash Fiction Online, March 2017)
The Cratch, Thy Keeper (Flash Fiction Online, January 2015)
About Her Bones So Bleak and Bare (Flash Fiction Online, March 2023)
Exam Questions For The Story That Killed Its Readers (The Cafe Irreal, November 2021)
“Fresh Meat at the Murderhutch” Featured in the companion book to A Field Guide to Evil.
“Fed” (Jitter Press, October 2018)
Notes on the Disappearance of the Headless Child (The Cafe Irreal, August 2023)
Please Do Not Poke The Ordinary Man (Fleas On The Dog, February 2023)
The Innovators (The Cafe Irreal, August 2022)
“Rats” Danse Macabre (August 2020)
“Infraction” The Cafe Irreal (Winter 2020)
“I Find Them in Bags” and “Come, There Is Ham Here“ (Clockwise Cat #38)
Afterlife in America” and “Endings” (13 Myna Birds, June 2017.)
The Voyage of the Texarkana (Cafe Irreal, Feb 2017)
The Water Tastes Like Centipedes & The World’s About to End (White Knuckle Press, December 2016).
Let Me Squeeze Your Islets of Langerhans (Cafe Irreal, Winter 2016)