Another example of flash fiction preserving a longer story. This short-short made its original appearance at Hali, where it is still, in its original form. It answers two Lovecraftian questions — namely, who was it that viewed the face on Kadath, in the Cold Waste, and what is the origin…

a 750-word themed collection, from my book before Crazytown. Dedicated with love to Fredric Brown. Waiting For the Sun I’ve been awake for so long that sounds have shadows, and the noise from the street makes dumbshow on the wall that faces the open window. The dreams, I think, come…

One learns by doing. All fiction is essentially based on worldbuilding. Your given world can be as minimal as a featureless nowhere or as elaborate as your average WarHammer scenario. Here I’m concerned with worldbuilding as expressed in science fiction, weird fiction, and some dark fantasy, where it often has elements of mythopoeia, of…

I’ve been seeing a lot of articles promoting the idea that the BernieBro appellation is based on myth. A good example is Keith Spencer’s Salon piece claiming qualitative analysis disproves said myth, based on the premise of mean tweets, where the actuality is that the mass of people see ‘BernieBros’…

I don’t want to put too fine a point on things but a daily injection of painkiller would be welcome. Or even a capsule or tablet. Or anything. I’m a chronic pain patient, having awakened in the hospital after 45 days of medical coma with severely atrophied muscles, pretty much…

The Thoughtcrime Vocab #1 Liquor — Candy is dandy. We hold these proofs to be self-evident. This commercial break is brought to you by the people who stock one-ounce bottles at the Circle K and then write tougher drunk-driving laws. Main Stream Media — The pool that results from everybody…

Once again I find myself looking through the wrong end of the telescope and trying to peer through a fog of jurist imprudence, orbital junk, and Bernie cooties at the political scene in toto, even though it’s too dark to read the tea leaves, inside a dog. The one thing…

Let’s try again with the writing advice. …

I must confess that I have repeatedly committed anthologization, and would probably do so again. And, having spoken to periodical editors at some length, I feel pretty secure in saying that antho editors and mag/blog editors have similar experiences and needs. Further, it is my belief that every writer should…