A little ink more or less

Y’all don’t know how hard it is to google reviews when you can’t spell my name.  I have written a pome to help you.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the /e/
and the /p/
Falls the apostrophe

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the /e/
and the /p/
Falls the apostrophe

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the /e/
and the /p/
Falls the apostrophe

For Thine is the kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way my name ends
this is the way my name ends
this is the way my name ends
3.14159

Issue #5 of Explosive Runes (a free PDF download) includes my time traveling werewolf vs. zombies story “Ghost Town.”

My short story collection As Smart As You Are, He Was, And As Bad As He Is, He Was is now available at Lulu.com, as either a trade paperback or an ebook download.

The full table of contents is listed on that page, so I’ll just say a few things: this is what I think of as a “best of” collection. I’ve published much more than what’s in this volume, but I left aside anything published when I was young or that I simply don’t like anymore. Sure, some of them I would write differently if I wrote them now — but that’s true for things I wrote a month ago, too.

A few of the stories haven’t been published before.  “The Ballad of Steven Rocketship” is a digression excerpted from a lengthy space opera epic I don’t expect to finish this decade. “Downbelow Domino” is excerpted from the novel of the same name, which I’ll say more about in the next few weeks.

The published stories include stories published at Strange Horizons and The Fortean Bureau, as well as harder to find work.

The latest issue of ChiZine includes my short story, “The Vine That Ate The South.”

That’d be kudzu, for the benefit of you Yankees.

My zombie story “The Cola Wars” is up at The Horror Library Slushpile.

Like “Everything Life Carries On Without” and an upcoming publication I’ll link to when it’s available, this is one of those stories I’m particularly happy to have had accepted because I’d decided to take a turn with the way that I was writing — and a lot of times, when you make those changes to your approach, the final product never finds an audience.