The Merchant Of Venus

 My story "The Merchant Of Venus" is now available in Brave New Girls: Chronicles Of Curious Girls Who Create!

These middle grade anthologies feature teenage girls in STEM and the proceeds go to The Society Of Women Engineers Scholarship Fund, so I'm always excited to have a story in one.

My story this time is the culmination of a couple separate notes that have been in my ideas folder for quite a while. The first was the title, a play on the Shakespeare play, although I was never quite sure what I wanted to do with that title. I just liked it.

The second was Saul Goodman from Better Call Saul if he was a robot. Again, more of a concept than an actual idea.

And then there was this joke: what did the salesman say at the Shakespearean camping supply store's year end sales event? Now is the winter of our discount tents!