Lex Chamberlin
Writer of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror
Stories
2024
"Rise of the Hive" - Radon Journal, Issue 8
An unintentionally sentient combat-training droid gets drastic.
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"Anti-Phantasmic Spearmint Mocktail" - The Cosmic Background
The deathwell awaits! Get your bills paid with this one easy recipe.
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"Eight Legs Under Moonlight" (Reprint) - Year's Best Arthropod Short Fiction, Vol. 1
In a Victorian town plagued by werespiders, a curious spinster takes in a mysterious woman.
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"New Immortals" - Inner Worlds, Issue 3
A droid body is forever—all you have to do is pick one.
-827 words-
"Reward for Hubris" - Wyrms 2: An Anthology of Dragon Drabbles
An expedition into a wyrm warren reaches its end.
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"Willow at the Labyrinth's Core" - The Colored Lens, Spring 2024
You fought well through the maze, but can you defeat the willow?
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"The Surgeon" - Factor Four Magazine, Issue 33
A successful doctor is interrogated for suspected necromancy.
-998 words-
"Peppermint" - Creepy Podcast
A surreal Christmas visit grows increasingly minty.
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"Take Care" - Radon Journal, Issue 6
A hospice android struggles to adapt her protocols to the undead.
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"Wandering Womb" - The Dread Machine, Issue 3.4
Out of painkillers, a woman considers letting the kudzu take her.
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2023
"Eight Legs Under Moonlight" - Diet Milk Magazine, Fall / Winter II
In a Victorian town plagued by werespiders, a curious spinster takes in a mysterious woman.
-3,472 words-
"Cherry's Strawberry Revenge" - HyphenPunk, Issue 8
An ex–art student's explosive crafts hit back at the horde.
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"Giver of Flesh" - Martian Magazine, Summer 2023
The Martian fungi are not as harmless as they seemed.
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"Ascendant Neither-Nors" - Radon Journal, Issue 4
One last mission in a dying planet's garden.
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"Willing Souls" - The Colored Lens, Winter 2023
A professor and her android are cornered by an insectoid swarm.
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About
Lex Chamberlin (they/she) is a nonbinary and autistic writer of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. They hold a master’s degree in book publishing and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, and they reside in the Pacific Northwest with their husband and quadrupedal heirs.They are currently querying their first novel (fantasy) and working on their second (sci-fi, a sequel to their Radon Journal story "Ascendant Neither-Nors"). They are also querying and submitting a short story collection. See below for project descriptions:The Marked Coven
A coven of witches with nocturnal tattoo-based magic defends their secret village and power source from a dying kingdom’s invasion.City of Flora
Rhian, a human-sunflower hybrid from a fresh Deadworld, must help stop their Engineer overlords' planned population cull on the space station's nonessential levels.Gears and Webs: Tales to Trace and Evade the End
A sci-fi and fantasy short story collection saturated with dread, hope, and transformation, showcasing both new and previously published material.