Itâs been a slow publishing year for me. But my dark fantasy mall story âLayawayâ was in the Escalators to Hell anthology from @frombeyondpress.bsky.socialfrombeyondpress.com/product/esca...
But how did 25 people acquire good taste on the same day? The odds are against it, given what I know about people.
I found a demerit slip in a copy of Equus. Its teenage owner had been caught smoking on the playground. It was an uncommon name, so I looked up his address and mailed him the demerit, 35 years after he had received it.
It made me cry!
Yoko Tawada - The Bridegroom Was a Dog (1998) Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Talents (1998) Nina Revoyr - Wingshooters (2011) Octavia Cade - The Impossible Resurrection of Grief (2021) Gabino Iglesias - The Devil Takes You Home (2022) David Simmons - The Ghosts of East Baltimore (2022)
Shohei Ooka - Fires on the Plain (1951) Davis Grubb - The Night of the Hunter (1953) Khushwant Singh - Train to Pakistan (1956) May Sarton - Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1965) Takeshi Kaiko - Into a Black Sun: Vietnam 1964-65 (1980) James Welch - Killing Custer (1994)
No idea why there's a black square alongside the t-shirt photo.
I had it set to 4 but I guess I have to increase it.
"Cordryceps Stendhalli" in Long Con. longconmag.com/issue-11/der...
"The Price of Power" in Triangulation: Energy. www.amazon.com/Triangulatio...