Robert Runte
robertrunte.bsky.social
Robert Runte
@robertrunte.bsky.social
Editor, author, sociologist, educator. (he/him)
My short story, "Split Decision", has been reprinted and is up for free reading at Twin Flame Literary as of Sept 14.
twinflameliterary.com/split-decisi...
The story originally appeared in Tesseracts 15, 2012.
This is the story's fourth appearance, but the first time available online for free.
September 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Pleased my flash fiction, "Iceberg" has been reprinted in Polar Borealis #35. PB is available for free download from polarborealis.ca/currentback-...
July 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
My Review of Sorry, Not Sorry: An Unapologetic Celebration of Canadian Life Through Story, edited by Shawn Bird, is up at Ottawa Review of Books.
www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
June 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My drabble, "The Perfect Storm," was reprinted today in Flash Flood (an annual online event in which a piece of flash fiction is published every 15 minutes for 24 hours) flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/search?updat...
June 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The opening 4000 words of my WIP has been published by EMBARK Literary Journal #22 this morning.
embarkliteraryjournal.com/issues/issue...

(ART: excerpt from the original cover art for The Assurance by Fred Gambino)
April 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Very pleased that my article "The Writer/Editor Relationship: What Should You Expect" is out today in Westword (April-May, 2025) pp.13-14 (the magazine of the Writers' Guild of Alberta).
April 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
My poem, "Memory Loss", has been published as "Poem of the Month" for April by the Worchester Public Library for "The Poet's Place".

(Reprinted from Forgotten Fragments of Time, Adam Shove, ed. Dark Thirty Poetry, April 15, 2024, pp25-26 and originally appeared in Impspired #23, June 1, 2023.)
March 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Very pleased that my short story, "First Day on Night Shift," has been published in The Apparatus Almanac" a Jayhenge reprint anthology. My story originally appeared in On Spec Magazine #123. (Should also be up at Kobo, etc,
in next couple of days) www.amazon.ca/dp/B0F2J9L6BH/
March 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A new online horror magazine (read for free). First issue includes my short story, "The Ghost in the Casement"
March 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
My short story, "Ransom in the Woods," is out today in Neo-Opsis #36. As the title suggests, this is another in the Ransom and Friends series. And this is the first time I've shared a table of contents with Canadian national treasure, Matt Hughes, so that makes me very happy.
January 10, 2025 at 6:42 AM