Debora Godfrey writes short stories and longer works in futuristic speculative fiction. She is also working on a middle grade fantasy novel and a space opera. She struggles to keep her affection for frogs separated from her writing life, not always successfully.
Publications
When Trump was elected in November, 2024, Bob Brown, the owner of B-Cubed press, decided to make a statement. A book about liberties that might be going away. He was determined to publish it by January 20, 2025. Debora was one of six editors who sifted through stories to help make this happen. Her first grandchild was waiting to be born, and Debora wrote an open letter to her, about liberties achieved and her fears for the future. The book, which includes stories by Jim Wright, David Gerrald, Adam-Troy Castro, and others, made the deadline. It is an important book of our time.
What happens when you put a woman in charge? From a homeowners’ association to a generation spaceship to the President of the United States, women have been making their mark with power, and this book explores some of that.
A HOLIDAY STORY
There were too many good stories for the volume Alternative Holidays. Debora has a story in this one.
“Happy Christmas”.
Choice is the Soul of Liberty.
Choice is the Heart of our Democracy.
Choice is the bane of autocrats, of theocrats.
This book is about CHOICE.
Forty-nine years ago, the Supreme Court recognized Choice as a fundamental liberty.
Autocrats and theocrats have been fighting back ever since. With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, they think they have won.
B Cubed Press, in celebration of forty-nine years of Choice, introduces forty-nine stories to show that Choice cannot be eradicated.
It emerges stronger.
People demand Choice, not just in reproductive rights, but in our lives. Debora not only has a story in the volume, but she served as one of the editors.
What is War?
Nobody can really say.
“Everybody was in a different War. Nobody’s War is quite the same as anyone else’s.”
These words were from a Vietnam Veteran counselor.
Truer words have never been spoken, so in this book we don’t try to answer the question.
Instead we bring you thoughtful stories not only of War, but the people affected, and the aftermath.
In this book you’ll find stories of alternative Wars as imagined by 26 authors of speculative fiction. Perhaps some of them will provide some insight into why we keep repeating what simply seems like a really bad idea. Debora was co-editor on this volume. Jim Wright was responsible for the wonderful cover photo, and has a story inside as well.
Alternative Apocalypse asks = How will the world end? With aliens or angels? Or a ground hog? Bleak despair? Martial fervor? Or a belly laugh? Whatever the Apocalypse, It will be borne by people and their families and their dogs and most of all, it will challenge their notions of themselves. This anthology includes international award winning writers, poets, and thinkers that give you their version of the Apocalypse. Debora acted as co-editor, and her story “Sunset” offers a very brief view of the End.
Alternative Truths III: Endgame is the final volume in the best-selling Alternative Truths series from B Cubed Press. Edited by Bob Brown and Jess Faraday, Endgame takes a look forward at possible outcomes of our political decisions, with such contributors as Jim Wright, Louise Marley, K.G. Anderson, and Gwyndyn Alexander. Follow the actions of a beleaguered Attorney General in Debora’s work, “No Excuse” as he and his assistant try to convince the President that Hillary Clinton has been tried and convicted .
Alternative Theologies ponders questions about faith in a time of political upheaval. Where do our beliefs take us? Some stories are retellings of familiar classics, while others challenge the standard interpretation of religion. Would we recognize the Messiah if he knocked on our door? Where does a god fit in with the modern world? Some other contributors are Jim Wright, David Gerrold, Irene Radford, and Mike Resnick. “Don’t Get the Bible Wet” tells of a child caught in a fundamentalist, controlling society.
More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives, not just as individuals, but our American identity as a whole. This exploration defines this anthology. What has America become? What will it be in the future? Other authors in this anthology include David Brin, Esther Friesner, K.G. Anderson, David Gerrold, Vonda N. McIntyre, and Mike Resnick. Debora’s “Non-White in America” is a story we could read in the paper tomorrow, a tragedy waiting to happen, on the intersection of an elementary school full of students and an angry mob.
Debora Godfrey 