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Your Boundless Hunger
A creator’s love is tested by a mechanical child whose hunger to become more has no bottom.
Stories of wonder, loss & impossible choices.
Award-winning short fiction by Z.T. Bright, published across speculative magazines and anthologies.
Explore the storiesPublished work
Five stories · 2021–2024
Sep 2023
Somehow, She Remains
On an alien world, one twin asks the other to solve a mystery that reaches beyond grief, death, and rebirth.
Apr 2023
The Delicious Irony of Dino Nuggets
Published in Murderbirds, an illustrated anthology of strange, dangerous, and irreverent avian tales.
Audiobook narrated by L Connor McGeverly · 7 hrs 32 mins · Released April 2, 2024
Apr 2022
The Magic Book of Accidental City Destruction: A Book Wizard’s Guide
A fantasy tale published in the gold-medal-winning thirty-eighth volume of Writers of the Future.
Nov 2021
A Measure of a Mother’s Love
A mother aboard an orbital station faces the pain of letting go when her insectoid son chooses a path of his own.
Now collected in Journeys Beyond the Fantastical Horizon: A Galaxy’s Edge Anthology · September 2024
Winner · 2021 Mike Resnick Memorial AwardInterviews & panels
Listen in the Writers of the Future podcast archive
Author Z. T. Bright uses fantasy to explore issues with social media
Z. T. Bright joins the podcast as the featured interview guest.
Listen to episode 192Judges Brandon Sanderson, Todd McCaffrey, and Writers of the Future winners
Recorded at FanX Salt Lake and available as audio in the podcast archive; no video was found. Panelists, left to right: Darci Stone, Eric James Stone, Todd McCaffrey, Brandon Sanderson, John Goodwin, Wulf Moon, Kary English, Z. T. Bright, and Martin Shoemaker.
Listen to episode 196About the author
Z.T. Bright is an award-winning writer of science fiction and fantasy.
His short fiction ranges from intimate stories of family and loss to strange, funny encounters with magic, technology, and the unknown.