Category Archives: Fiction

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My Newest Published Story: Haunted Apartment

Today I opened a package with four (4) wondrous contributor copies of the September 2024 issue of ParABnormal Magazine, with my story “Aveline’s Apartment” contained therein. Special thanks to magazine editor H. David Blalock and Hiraeth Publishing editor Tyree Campbell, for molding my lumpy ball of clay into a sleek, symmetrical rocketship 🚀 of a story (no, it’s not about a spaceship.)

ParABnormal Magazine is an all around entertaining magazine, filled with fiction, nonfiction, and art, and I recommend a subscription unreservedly.

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Fiction News

I have short story news, as opposed to the boring illustration news:

1. My story “Disquiet” will go live in June, on Penumbric.com.

2. I have sold my story “Aveline’s Apartment” to ParABnormal Magazine.

After a long dry spell, three things are going right. The first two are mentioned above. The third is that I’ve finally gotten control over my novel. I have tamed the beast, and now that she is under my control, we will go to wonder-filled places, on an Earth just like this one…mostly. I will post a very short excerpt on Slip of the Pen in a few days. Until then, I will be writing my butt off, and you beautiful people will be performing your own kind of magic….

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Enter the Vortex

I would just like to mention the new Vortex Books & Comics, bricks n’ mortar brainchild of authors Brian Keene and Mary SanGiovanni. Opening roughly in the springtime of 2024, the store could use a donation, large, small, or mammoth, to help apply ignition and thrust sufficient to reach LEO, and beyond. If you would like to help Vortex reach Escape Velocity, you can donate here.

 

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New Story: The Martian Wave

My flash science fiction story, “The Last Goodbye,” is in the November 2022 issue of The Martian Wave. This is a story about how, in an era of interstellar space travel, two people can be separated, for all intents and purposes, forever. If you’ve read the story and come away with a heavy heart, this might perk you up: another story, featuring the same two characters, will find them reunited against impossible odds, in order to face a dire threat to the entire human presence in the Milky Way galaxy. I will post more about this once the story gets underway.

The Martian Wave (November 2022)

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I Fly On Wings of Onyx Ink

You can toil and exert all your powers in the arts, whichever art you happen to practice, and still feel disappointment as your expectations remain unrealized, so it feels wonderful when something like this comes along:

“On behalf of Penumbric, I’d like to let you know ‘I Fly on Wings of Onyx Ink’ has been selected for the hard copy Best of Penumbric, vol v (June 2k21 to April 2k22)! Congratulations! And thank you again for submitting it to us in the first place!”

My thanks to Jeff Georgeson, editor-in-chief at Penumbric Magazine, for finding value in my drawings.

More of my drawings will be appearing in Penumbric over the next year. Here is the most recent example.

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New Myths Live with My Cover Art

Vol. 16 / Issue 59 / Summer 2022

New Myths Summer 2022

This illustration, titled “Flight,” was a jumping-off point for the excellent prose poem “New Beginnings,” written by the inimitable, gifted writer Marge Simon. We collaborated on a few projects, including one challenge wherein one person’s art acted as inspiration for another’s literary work. Working with Marge, even with her being 1,500 miles away in Florida, rekindled what, at the time, felt like an artistic block.

I also wrote a rather short story based on Marge’s drawing, “Vision.” The result is named “The Last Goodbye,” set to appear in the November 2022 issue of Hiraeth Publishing’s magazine The Martian Wave, edited by Tyree Campbell.