WP Response
The Wheel
I will stay free this time, when I upload into the ether of dimensions beyond matter. I will not only travel the Wheel, but leap from it, to learn at last what lies beyond.
WP Response
Chicken
We knew it would happen eventually. These things are not a question of ‘if,’ but ‘when.’
Update
The Next Novel (and other wonders)
A year-end update It’s been months since my last blog post. With the tumultuous nature of my 2020 (held together with spit and twine would be an understatement), it’s been easy for the days and weeks to whiz by in Read more…
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Lovecraft and I in the Time of Plague
It’s something I’ve picked away at since April, but I’ve just finished reading the entire collected works of H.P. Lovecraft. Prior to beginning the collection, I had never read a single Lovecraft story, yet for a number of years now Read more…
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Story Behind the Story – The Night Side
I was elated to have my story, The Night Side, published last week in the inaugural issue of Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine (Vol 1: Dystopia). You can find the story here, and I encourage anyone reading to check out the Read more…
Flash Fiction
Cecil
But she was a Yazidi girl, and so she was raped for weeks by the fighters, in dim tents stinking of sweat and old blood, before being trucked to the killing sands outside the ancient city. They told her to Read more…
Flash Fiction
The Big Ones
“Listen, some of the deckhands might’ve told you there are squid down here that can suck the bolts out of a submarine’s hull. Don’t let that crap get to you. This is an S-155 Conger and it doesn’t have any Read more…
Flash Fiction
Synaesthesia
The morning that Janica began to hear numbers, five months before, was easily the best in years. Years of bruised breasts, of scraped elbows, of a damaged and repaired rib cage (it gets stronger that way). She’d heard the numbers Read more…
Flash Fiction
Heralds
Aunt Hilda has always warned me about crows, and how they sometimes show up to herald a coming death. She’s told me the story plenty of times. Before my late uncle died, he’d managed to get himself lost in the Read more…
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Bangkok in the Time of Coronavirus
Sometimes I forget how stupendous this city is. The lockdown has naturally led me to spend much more time cooped up in my apartment than ever before, but even with the view from my little balcony, seen through the kitchen Read more…