If you missed last month’s new story on Patreon, “Trouble in Fear,” you can still sign on and read it – plus the first Pietr Cholis story, “Trouble in Mind”! Otherwise you’re going to have to wait until the series is complete, and then buy the full set…. (and that may not be for another […]
It is Yom Kippur. I am not fasting (health reasons) and I have to work (there’s nobody to take my shift for me), but I am very much aware of what day it is, what the High Holy Days are, and what it means both to my greater community, and to myself, personally. Â In
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Pleased to say that I’ve signed contracts for my story “Exposure,” to be reprinted in Nightmare Magazine, at some point in the near future. *confetti everywhere*  That story originally appeared in BLOOD MUSE, back in 1995. This will be its…third reprint, I think. Go go go, bittersweet little vampire story!  (It’s about a
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Over the years, I’ve fallen out of the habit of giving general-audience writing advice, because it’s sort of like giving advice on sex: unless you’re an active partner, you really don’t know enough about the person to be useful. That said, I do have two bits to say, that will hopefully be useful to any
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One of the interesting joys of the current story-series is that I’m NOT writing a broken or restricted character – I’m writing a character who has gotten his shit together & is taking on a new, out-of-comfort-zone challenge because he chooses to. Because the story doesn’t end when the broken bits of a POV character
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This month’s Rant has been posted to Patreon, for everyone at the $1+ level. This month’s topic? “SMut and noTHing bUT.” As you might imagine, NSFW for language and discussion of things sexual. There is also an excerpt from the Files of Shame, and at some point this weekend when the upload co-operates, the Author’s
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Still I remember. Until I am no more, I will remember. Absent friends, and the friends we never got a chance to meet. The world that ended, and the world that became. “Bear Witness” Years pass, decades, The revising measure of a lifetime Entire; I stand here still, Not stone not metal not fire but
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from September’s Patreon story: “It was about half an hour’s steady walk along a country road, but the air was crisp and dry, and the moon was high enough already that I didn’t feel the lack of streetlights. Or maybe I’d just come a very long way from that New York City boy who
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It’s been impossible for anyone in North America with any kind of media access to avoid seeing photos of the Houston flooding disaster, or to miss the worries of what’s about to hit Florida, with Hurricane Irma. But here in the Pacific Northwest, the sky is a thick grey that, back in NY, would warn
Did you notice I was gone? (you did? Awwww….) Short story quicker: after numerous delays caused by neither the seller nor the buyer, last week I handed off the paperwork (and got a check) for my NYC apartment. Whew. But this required a sudden (expensive!airfare) trip to NYC, which turned into a “hang around with