Summary Bibliography: Terrie Leigh Relf

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Author: Terrie Leigh Relf Author Record # 123194
Language: English
Webpages: Myspace, smashwords.com, tlr.appleseedhosting.com
Used These Alternate Names: The Boortean Ambassador, The Boortean Ambassador to Haura, Terrie Lee Relf, Terrie Relf, Semi, Tlrelf
Author Tags: scifaiku (14), fantasy (2), senryu (2), tanka (2), prose poem (1), planetary colonization (1), aliens (1), interspecies romance (1), science fiction (1), alien abduction (1), human-alien hybrids (1), vampires (1), ghazal (1), horrorku (1)

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Awards Alphabetical Chronological

Novels

Blood Journey (2019) with Henry Lewis Sanders

Collections

The Intergalactic Cookbook (2013) with Sandy DeLuca and Marge Simon
Letting Out the Demons and Other Poems (2013)
Postcards from Space (2019)

Magazine Editor Series

Cover of Darkness
- Cover of Darkness - 2012 (2012) with Herika R. Raymer
- Cover of Darkness - 2013 (2013) with Herika R. Raymer
Disturbed Digest
- Disturbed Digest - 2013 (2013)
- Disturbed Digest - 2014 (2014)
Flash Digest
- Flash Digest - 2024 (2024)
- Flash Digest - 2025 (2025)
Hungur
- Hungur - 2005 (2005) with L. A. Story Houry
- Hungur - 2006 (2006) with Tyree Campbell
- Hungur - 2007 (2007) with Tyree Campbell
- Hungur - 2009 (2009) with Tyree Campbell
- Hungur - 2010 (2010)
- Hungur - 2011 (2011)
- Hungur - 2012 (2012)
- Hungur - 2013 (2013)
Illumen
- Illumen - 2013 (2013)
Shelter of Daylight
- Shelter of Daylight - 2012 (2012) with Herika R. Raymer [only as by Herika Raymer and Terrie Leigh Relf]
- Shelter of Daylight - 2012 (2012)
The Drabbler
- The Drabbler - 2007 (2007)
- The Drabbler, #10, February 2008 (2008)
- The Drabbler - 2009 (2009)
- The Drabbler - 2010 (2010)
The Hungur Chronicles
- The Hungur Chronicles - 2022 (2022) with Robert Bellam
- The Hungur Chronicles - 2024 (2024) with Robert Bellam

Anthologies

It Came from Her Purse (2021) with Marcia Borell [only as by Marcia A. Borell and Terrie Leigh Relf]

Short Fiction

In the Same Way (2002) [only as by Terrie Relf]
The Change (2003)
The Temp Job (2003)
Bathland (2003)
Glossies (2003)
After Hour's at the Europan Tentacle Dancers' Tank (2003)
Too Long Among the Humans (2003)
Point Scored (2003)
At the Exotic Winds Candle Shop (2004)
How Monsters Take Shape (2004)
Not for Sale at Any Price (2004)
Europa's Secret (2005)
The Ionian Tentacle Dance (2005)
The Ordonian Love Knot (2005)
The Way Home (2007)
Scavengers (2007) with Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin
The Boortean Ambassador Prepares for Her First Visit to Haura (2007)
A Visit from a Friend (2008)
Coming to You Live—The Season Premier of Desperate Househusbands! (2008) with Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin
SETI Searches for New Funding (2008) [only as by The Boortean Ambassador to Haura]
The Inside-Out Umbrella (2008)
A Special Invitation-Only 5 Opportunity from Xenodate™, the Creators of Xenosynths™ (2008)
Help Wanted (2009) with Michael McCarty
Nadar Goes on an Extended Vacation, Thus Learning That There Are No Accidents (2009) [only as by The Boortean Ambassador]
"I Am So Into You, Babe"—and Other Signs Alien Men Watch Primetime Television (2009) [only as by The Boortean Ambassador to Haura]
When You Have Sex with Someone... (2009) [only as by The Boortean Ambassador to Haura]
Sisters of the Blood Moon (2009)
Tertu Fler, The Boortean Ambassador, Arrives on Haura and Searches for the Embassy (2009) [only as by The Boortean Ambassador]
What Did She Know of Love (2009)
The Rim of Sorrows (2010)
Chimes of Bone (2010)
Your Mama Can Hear You Screamin' (2010)
Luani (2010)
Welcome to the Season Finalé of The Transgalactic Chef (2010) [only as by The Boortean Ambassador]
Still Sleepless in Stasis Pod 472 (2010)
Popsicle for Emmy (2011)
Why Not Invite Me In? (2011)
A Woman Knitting (2011) [only as by Terrie Relf]
Grey Wolf, the Skin Walkers, and the Sky Clan (2011)
The Last Flight (2012)
The Zombie Solution (2012)
The Legend of the Star Counter (2012)
The Hunter's Moon (2013) with Michael McCarty
Immune (2013)
The Ice Queen (2014)
The Special Class (2014)
Monster Under the Bed (2014)
An Unconventional Book Review (2016)
The Old Radio (2016)
The Interview (2016)
Le Souper à la Maison d'Ombres (2016)
Psyche and the Cupid (2017)
Over the Ridge (2017)
An Arctic Dig (2017)
From a Personal Log Found in the Ruins of Martian Colony No. 7 (2017)
Sector 3 (2017)
Beyond the Airlock Door (2017)
The Scent of Marigolds (2019)
The Audition (2021)

Poems

Just Like the Others (2000) [only as by Terrie Relf]
Sanguine Roses (2000) with Andree Gendron and Victoria Tarrani [only as by Andree Gendron and Terrie Relf and Victoria Tarrani]
Victorian Lace (2000) [only as by Terrie Relf]
The Sanctuaty of Love (2001) [only as by Terrie Relf]
The Fertility Clinic (2002) [only as by Terrie Relf]
My friend, the editor (2003)
the stroke of an artist (2003)
The Girl with the Dragon Eyes (2003)
Sea Monkeys of Pluto (2003) with Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin [only as by Terrie Relf and Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin]
My friend, the princess (2003)
Where Do Moons Come From? (2003)
Ghazal for my new alien friends (2003)
my friend, the maker of things (2004)
My Friends, the Aliens (2004)
"enroute to Europa's moon" (2004) [only as by Terrie Relf]
"his eyes" (2004) [only as by Terrie Relf]
Exposed to Aliens (2004)
The Love of an Angel (2004)
What a Good Eater She Is! (2004) with Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin
Envoy on Io (2004)
We Were at the Zombie Lounge (2004)
"trans-species birthing class" (2004)
A Poet on Board (2004)
"first light" (2004)
"huddled together" (2004)
"Shimmering" (2004)
le souper a la maison d'ombres (Dining at the House of Shadows) (2004) also appeared as:
- Variant: le souper à la maison d'ombres (2004) [as by Terrie Relf]
Selkie's Lament (2004)
Another Goddess in the Sky (2005)
enroute to Mars (2005)
space is not silent--after John Brandi (2005) [only as by Terrie Relf]
there's a woman in the moon (2005)
He Plaits My Hair with Rosemary (2005)
he dreamt of Martian breasts (2005) [only as by Terrie Lee Relf]
How Snipta, the Arcturian Gobblepooker Guide, Saved All the Vast Universe from Impending Doom (2005) with L. A. Story Houry
Storyteller (2005)
It Is the Sky That Calls to Us (2005)
On the Reasons for Language (2005)
You've All Heard the Story About the Alien (2005)
A Partial List of New Year's Resolutions from the Desk of the Boortian Ambassador to Earth (2005)
We can't sleep 'til morning (2005)
Not the Time (2005)
Europan Spring (2006)
"Boortian female—" (2006)
"breeders tagged" (2006)
"discovering" (2006)
"scattered beyond our galaxy" (2006)
"just before dawn" (2006)
On Space and Time and Coffee Gone Cold (2006)
"arriving" (2006) [only as by Tlrelf]
"awakening" (2006) [only as by Tlrelf]
"morph gene switched to high" (2006) [only as by Tlrelf]
"was that a left turn" (2006) [only as by Tlrelf]
Why I don't want to ride in that time machine (2006)
It is not yet the end ... (2006)
The Not-So-Itsy Spider (2007)
Which Way to the Clockmaker's Shop? (2007)
"It's a mini universe!" (2007) with Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin
NASA's Early Retirement Program (2007)
There (2007)
There was something (2007)
Re-visioning (2007) only appeared as:
- Variant: Re-Visioning (2007) [as by Semi]
The grandmother I thought I knew (2007)
The world could very well end with a sigh (2007)
"tired of incessant chatter" (2007)
Space Envelopes (2007) with Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin
Of a promise kept and a promise broken (2007)
Searching for the Artist (2007)
The Circus in the Sky (2007)
a selkie dreaming (2008)
An Ancient Tongue of Touch (2008)
on realizing death is a man (2008) [only as by Terrie Lee Relf]
A Rubric for Vampires (2008)
Why the Aliens Really Came to Earth (2008)
You Thought You Were Safe (2008)
Just after the rain (2008)
And then she licked their blood (2008)
Sea Ball (2008) with Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
Still Life of Porphyria with Hairbrush (2008)
Callisto's Vow (2008)
Don't Turn Around (2008)
Migraines (2008)
"Annie Lenox singing" (2008)
"morphing on contact" (2008)
"shuttled between" (2008)
An Alien Abandoned on Earth Laments Her Fate (2008)
Just Another Monday in Space (2008) [only as by Semi]
untitled scifaiku [1] (2008)
untitled scifaiku [2] (2008)
Children Are Our Future (2008)
Perhaps I'll Find My True Love in Space (2008)
The New Tourism—Space Travel (2008)
There, where the universe begins (2008)
Warning: The Airlock is Ajar! (2008)
Are You My Satellite? (2008)
Attempting to Paste Together a Self-Portrait While Not in Geosynchronous Orbit (2008)
That Blinkety-Blink Ship You Zoomed in On (2008)
Why She Canceled Her Online Dating Membership: A Martian Female Responds (a triolet) (2008)
"eruptions" (2008)
And so we set sail for Alpha Centauri (2008)
Pomegranates (2008)
"chill night" (2008)
"full moon" (2008)
Remembering Astarte's Three Moons While Stranded on Earth (2008)
The box arrived early afternoon (2008)
The XenodateT Center for Physical Enhancement (2009)
The Star Chamber (2009)
"all-girl science class" (2009) [only as by Semi]
"altering course" (2009) [only as by Semi]
"blue sky" (2009) [only as by Semi]
"debating whether" (2009) [only as by Semi]
"launched into" (2009) [only as by Semi]
"low tide" (2009) [only as by Semi]
"radioactive memories" (2009) [only as by Semi]
"unheard rebuttal" (2009) [only as by Semi]
From the Desk of the Boortean Embassy: Hauran Superstitions 328910C (2009) [only as by Semi]
An Ode to a Martian Medusa (2009)
My Friend, the Sculptor (2009)
An Argument for Cloning (2009)
Color the Vampire (2009)
I Dreamt of Rhysling (2009)
When the Moon Is Too Full (2009)
In the Hydroponic Garden Aboard Survey Station E319... (2010)
SETI message in translation (2010)
The Boortean Storybook Hour: A Fairytale Romance (2010)
The Sommelier from Terzon III (2010)
"exquisite blooms" (2010) [only as by Semi]
"her skin" (2010) [only as by Semi]
"playing leapfrog" (2010) [only as by Semi]
"burying each" (2010) [only as by Semi]
"haunting houses" (2010) [only as by Semi]
"the crew pre-served" (2010) [only as by Semi]
The Cynosure of Blood (2010)
"flashdrive deleted" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"lunar base 5" (2011) only appeared as:
- Variant: "lunar base 5" (2011) [as by Semi]
- Variant: "lunar base 5" (duplicate) (2011) [as by Semi]
It's 5:00 a.m. and I Hear Them Stirring (2011)
I Smell Rain Outside My Window (2011)
She Once Had a Radio Flyer (2011)
"a brief spark" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"brainstorm" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"dangling from a fog bank--magnetically-charged red sneakers" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"esc malfunction" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"how salt sweetens" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"petals...protein-based...bioship" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"rearranging furniture" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"returning to the before times--tang" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"reverse engineering" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"timer set" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"trap doors...fire walls...codeplay" (2011) [only as by Semi]
Empty Nest (2011)
What They Want in Exchange (2011)
The Ambassador from Ariadne IV (2011)
The Silence of Blood (2011)
"gestation complete" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"stasis chamber" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"uprooted obelisk" (2011) [only as by Semi]
The End of Fairy Tales? (2011)
Writhe and Wriggle into the Good Night (2011)
"asteroidal chunks" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"You'll never date another Earthling that way," she says, (2011)
Attempting to Excavate Planet 30971 (2011)
Her Horoscope Said... (2011)
Hypatia (2011)
like fireflies (2011)
Untitled ("Coming home...") (2011) [only as by Semi]
Untitled ("Portal array...") (2011) [only as by Semi]
Untitled ("Sat-cards from space...") (2011) [only as by Semi]
Untitled ("Sat-feed from home...") (2011) [only as by Semi]
Untitled ("The scent of sulfur...") (2011) [only as by Semi]
Untitled ("Too many light years...") (2011) [only as by Semi]
"more homework??" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"so rare that lapis hue" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"the staggered rising" (2011) [only as by Semi]
"the half-light of your eyes" (2012) [only as by Semi]
A Child's Prayer to Raise NASA Funding (2012)
And Then He/She/It Sneezed (2012)
Put your left foot on heaven (2012)
Untitled ("Download program...") (2012)
Untitled ("carving poems...") (2012) [only as by Semi]
And So They Are Born Among Us (2012)
A Message on a Trans-Galactic Romance Site, Part II (2012)
Behold the Breathless Ones (2012)
Once Upon a Time, We Thought Them Gods (2012)
Giving Voice (2013)
On Learning Earthtongues (2013)
Winter's Prelude (2013)
"tattered star chart" (2013) [only as by Semi]
"upcycled parts" (2013) [only as by Semi]
While on the Evacuation Shuttle (2013)
The Vow (2013)
At Innsmouth (2013)
"hibernation chill" (2014) [only as by Semi]
They were waiting when I arrived (2014)
Enceladus Colony (2014) [only as by Semi]
I, XenoSynth Model Z46247, Do Take Thee Human to Love, Honor, and... (2014)
Ode to Yon Glizan Orbs, or No? (2014) also appeared as:
- Variant: Ode to Yon Gliesan Orbs, or No? (2015)
scent of a corpuscle (2014)
Aurora Colony (2015)
Master of Time (2015)
Time Travel for Dummies, Part II (2015)
Where All Souls Go (2015)
scifaiku (Spaceports & Spidersilk, July 2015) (2015) [only as by Semi]
Beneath Jupiter's Unwavering Gaze, Amalthea (2016)
"attempting to align" (2016)
"bedtime ritual" (2016)
"The thrash of white and golden koi" (2016)
"The thrash of white" (2016)
"a long journey home" (2016)
"be sure to read" (2016)
"blood moon" (2016)
"breaching the portal" (2016)
"coding for free will" (2016)
"crashing the seance" (2016)
"death by a thousand kisses" (2016)
"eye of newt" (2016)
"field trip to the xeno-zoo" (2016)
"fingers circling" (2016)
"how fertile your world" (2016)
"how his eyes grow" (2016)
"making room" (2016)
"mind grid malfunction" (2016)
"more alien subterfuge" (2016)
"mother always said" (2016)
"naughty is as naughty does" (2016)
"piercing the cloud bank" (2016)
"remembering Hypatia..." (2016)
"reseeding earth" (2016)
"tangled up" (2016)
"The Old Ones gather" (2016)
"the reanimation" (2016)
"These marks in the rock" (2016)
"too soon the fog" (2016)
"unearthing mom" (2016)
"veins bursting" (2016)
"witholding darkness" (2016)
"after giving thanks" (2016) [only as by Semi]
While I Wait, Emotions Continue to Be an Intriguing Study (2017)
She traveled back in time (2017)
We could always hitch a ride (2017)
after the storm (2018)
Borrowing Breath (2018)
Jupiter's Eye (2018)
Our Minds Are Jewels of Uncertainty (2018) with Kendall Evans
A Logbook Discovered on an Alien World (2018)
Revisiting the Origins of Language (2019)
"exiled to Europa" (2019) [only as by Semi]
"gestating through space--" (2019) [also as by Semi]
"how the alien pathogens" (2019) [only as by Semi]
"she closes her eyes" (2019) [only as by Semi]
Cactus Flowers (2019)
First Date with a Boortean? (2019)
Aboard Survey Vessel B279: Hydroponics, Hazardous Division (2019) [only as by Semi]
Aboard the Trans-Generational Ark to Nibiru (2019) [only as by Semi]
"glacial melt" (2019)
"increased funding" (2019)
"landing on a planet" (2019) [only as by Semi]
"recalibrating" (2019)
"revealed by satellite images" (2019)
"traveling back" (2019)
"where once land existed" (2019)
A Haibun (2019) [only as by Semi]
Earth Crews - Avoid the Space Station Food Court (2019) with Lauren McBride
What Could Go Wrong with the Time Loop Machine? (2019) [only as by Semi]
Discovery (2019)
Meet Me at Our Special Place on Terzon IV (2020)
Playing Hide-and-Seek with Alien Spores (2020)
"a long journey" (2020)
"adrift in space" (2020) [only as by Semi]
"beneath the ice" (2020)
"between worlds" (2020)
"communique received" (2020)
"determining their fate" (2020)
"forbidden planet ..." (2020) [only as by Semi]
"generation ship" (2020)
"genetic chess--" (2020)
"global warming conference" (2020)
"global weather change" (2020)
"left behind" (2020)
"not for sale at any price" (2020)
"not for sale" (2020)
"one last look" (2020)
"preserved in ice" (2020)
"proof revealed at last..." (2020)
"so many stars" (2020)
"stargazing" (2020)
"starless space" (2020)
"The Seven Sisters" (2020)
"We leave earth behind" (2020)
"weaving baskets" (2020)
Her First Space Walk (2020)
Sijo 1: (2020)
Sijo 2: (2020)
Sijo 3: (2020)
Sister of the Blood Moon (2020)
The Trouble with Teaching Idioms to Your XenoSynth™ (2020)
huddling in the air lock (2020) only appeared as:
- Variant: "huddling in the air lock" (2020) [as by Semi]
playing Truth or Date? (2020) only appeared as:
- Variant: "playing Truth or Date?" (2020) [as by Semi]
Scanning the universe for signs of life (2020) only appeared as:
- Variant: "Scanning the universe for signs of life," (2020) [as by Semi]
their robotic nannies (2020) only appeared as:
- Variant: "their robotic nannies" (2020) [as by Semi]
It Feels Like Drowning (2020)
"a sigh of relief" (2021) [only as by Semi]
"a thousand tentacles" (2021) [only as by Semi]
"before stepping" (2021) [only as by Semi]
"exchanging breath" (2021) [only as by Semi]
"realizing that you" (2021) [only as by Semi]
"sometime" (2021) [only as by Semi]
"visiting her" (2021) [only as by Semi]
Raining Hearts (2021)
Solo Zop Rengay: (2021) [only as by Semi]
"left behind on Earth" (2021) [only as by Semi]
Toward a Theory of Something (2021)
How Date Nights Bring You Ever Closer (2021)
A Sonnet on the Right to be Picard (2022)
A Visiting Artist's Perspective on Viewing a Recent Juried Art Exhibition on Earth (2022)
I may be the space station's AI, but still I forget ... (2022)
In Hiding (2022)
The Labyrinth (2022)
"after the plague" (2022) [only as by Semi]
"how it opens to me" (2022) [only as by Semi]
"just below the gums" (2022) [only as by Semi]
"pausing" (2022) [only as by Semi]
At grandpa's funeral (2022)
How did I prove my love for thee? Allow me to enumerate... (2022)
While Traveling Through Deep Space Aboard a Generation Ship (2022)
On a Dare (a haibun) (2022)
"blood-red rain" (2022) [only as by Semi]
Storm Watchers (2022)
After decades of insomnia (2023)
"reunited" (2023) [only as by Semi]
"singing lullabies" (2023) [only as by Semi]
"soft landing" (2023) [only as by Semi]
Hello? (2023)
It Wasn't Silly Putty (2023)
Some Time After the Apocalypse: Family Loyalty, Part 1 (2024)
Amalthea (2024)

Essays

Nature Gone Wild: Morphing Animals into Monsters (2003)
A Somewhat Brief Missive from the Boortean Ambassador to Haura (2008)
From the Desk of the Boortean Ambassador (The Drabbler, November 2009) (2009)
Review of "Isolation Space: A Melange of Short Fiction" by Mark Cantrell (2010)
From the Desk of the Boortean Ambassador (The Drabbler, October 2010). (2010)
A Brief Introduction to Asian Vampires, Part 1 (2010)
A Brief Introduction to Asian Vampires (Part 2 of ?) (2011)
Writing with the Dead: Some Thoughts on Psychography (2012)
A Note from Your Editor (Shelter of Daylight, Autumn 2012) (2012)
A Note from Your Editor (Disturbed Digest, June 2013) (2013)
In Memoriam: Stephen M. Wilson (2013) with Linda D. Addison and Marge Simon [only as by Linda Addison and Terrie Leigh Relf and Marge Simon]
Disturb Me Please! Terrifying Tropes and Deviant Devices (2013)
Grow UP! Poetry Is for Kids! (2016) with Marge Simon
How to Write a Fibonacci Poem (2020)
How to Write Science and Speculative Fiction Senryu (2020)
How to Write Zips an Zip-Rengays (2020)
The Sijo (2020)
Want to Know How to Write a Haibun? Here's How! (2021)
A Note from Your Poetry Editor (Tales from the Moonlit Path, Valentine's Day 2022) (2022)
A Note from Your Editor (Tales from the Moonlit Path, Summer 2022) (2022)
A Note from Your Poetry Editor (Tales from the Moonlit Path, Fiendish Father's Day 2023) (2023)

Reviews

Liquid Diet (2009) by Michael McCarty
Private Worlds: A Revised Atlas (2010) by Scott E. Green
Vamps: A Retrospective (2011) by James S. Dorr
Vamps: A Retrospective (2011) by James S. Dorr
Dark Duet (2013) by Linda D. Addison and Stephen M. Wilson
Paranormal/Romance: Poems Romancing the Paranormal (2013) by Denise Dumars
Wolves and Witches (2013) by Amanda C. Davis and Megan R. Engelhardt
Cthulhu Haiku and Other Mythos Madness (2013) by Lester Smith
Planet Hunter (2020) by Alan Ira Gordon

Interviews by This Author

An Interview with Brian Warren, author of The Harishtu Saga (2013) with Brian Warren
Interview with Thomas Kleaton (2019) with Thomas Kleaton
Interview with Ceara N. Finchel (2019) with Ceara N. Finchel
A Day in the Life Interview; Melissa Mead (2020) with Melissa Mead
Interview with Lauren McBride (2020) with Lauren McBride

Interviews with This Author

Interview with Terrie Leigh Relf (2016) by Teri Santitoro

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