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Alien Flop - 2011-06-02

My short short sci-fi comedy story "Alien Flop" is now available Infinite Horizons #2 from Avalon Games. FREE PDF zine for gamers. You can get it at RPGnow

Blank Spaces on Kindle - 2010-12-21

My collection "Blank Spaces & other dangers" is now available on the Kindle. Over 20 wild, fun, creative stories for $4.99. Check it out

Story counts - 2010-05-27

Some stats on my short stories:

Written: 337 stories; total 640,000 words
Published: 136 stories; total 192,000 words

Some percent of the stories are either too old to submit, or stuck in my "need work" limbo. Others just don't fit in with any market I can find, or have just been bouncing around for years with no luck. Okay, it's not like I send them out every week. Some have only been submitted two or three times, they just aren't high priorities.

New review for Book of Tentacles - 2010-04-11

Here's a nice new review for Tentacles:
April 2010 review by Flo Stanton. Glad you enjoyed it, Flo.

Book of Tentacles is here! - 2010-01-01

Always nice after so much work & waiting ... the Book of Tentacles has arrived. I've built a whole new site to support it, and provide extras ... so come on over to tentaclepower.com!

Book of Tentacles done - 2009-06-30

This weekend I delivered the last pieces of "The Book of Tentacles" anthology to the publisher. 32 stories & poems, all kinds of genres and styles, all with TENTACLES as an important factor. Fun stuff! Should be available in a few weeks ... stay tuned!

7 stories in one day? - 2009-06-07

Here's an odd item ... folks buggered off and left me alone on Memorial Day. I sat down, banged out two flash fiction pieces, took a walk, came up with a short story ... and by day's end had 7 new stories. Sure, they were all under 1,800 words each, but they're all good enough to submit, and it felt nice to have a creative day after months of stress and baloney.

First -- Next

Stories coming soon ...
  1.  "The First & Final Day"  accepted by Mother Goose is Dead (antho, 2008)
  2.  "Amadeus Outrage"  accepted by Twisted Twins 365 project
  3.  "Crime of the Hour"  accepted by Twisted Twins 365 project
  4.  "The Killer Sandwich"  accepted by Twisted Twins 365 project
Stories on this site ...
  1.  "A Touch of Blasphemy"  in my Year of the Twist (6/01); Nightmare Express #6 (8/87)
  2.  "Astral Sails"  in Black Satellite #1 (3/02); my Year of the Twist (6/01); Z Misc v1#2 (5/87)
Stories on other websites ...
  1.  "Another Inferno"  in Dark Windows #33-34 (1/09); Blank Spaces (2006); writing.com (9/03); Not One of Us #22 (1999)
  2.  "Baumann's Hands"  in Dark Windows #6 (11/07); my Unfuture blog (11/05); FlashShot #115
  3.  "Consumption"  in Dark Windows #15 (4/08); Hungur (2006); Year of the Twist (6/01); house-of-pain.com (web, 2/01); New Penny Dreadfuls #1 (11/88)
  4.  "Desert Man"  in Dark Windows #29-30 (11/08)
  5.  "Elixir"  in Dark Windows #25-7 (9/08); Blank Spaces (2006); Black Satellite #2 (spr 2002)
  6.  "Flea Market"  in my Unfuture blog (11/05); writing.com (9/03); Expressions NL (10/01); Museweek (10/95)
  7.  "Fluency"  in Sage of Consciousness #4 (2006)
  8.  "For a Wooden Heart"  in Dark Windows #7+8 (12/07)
  9.  "Green Eyes"  in my Unfuture blog (11/05); Year of the Twist (6/01); 1130 Club #4/5 (12/86)
  10.  "Harrod Runs his Mouth"  in Burst (Summer 07); FlashShot (9/21/06)
  11.  "Hill Street Dream"  in Dark Windows #9+10 (1/08); Cafe Irreal (8/01); Opaque Delusions (1999 - never); Electric Dreams v4#5 (5/97 - no, never)
  12.  "Homeward Found"  in Dark Windows #3 (9/07);Cafe Irreal #2 (web, 8/99)
  13.  "In Sendikar"  in Museweek (10/96)
  14.  "Interfering Angels"  in AuthorsDen.com (Sep 2003), Zipzap #3 (web, 1997)
  15.  "Interlude, with Nails"  in Dark Windows #28 (10/08); my Unfuture blog (11/05)
  16.  "Johnny's Thunder"  in Portents #6 (5/88); Museweek (web, 10/95); Alexandria Digital Lit (2/99)
  17.  "Jupiter Song"  in Dark Windows #4 (10/07);EOTU Online (Aug 2001)
  18.  "Long After Abraham"  in Xizquil #4 (4/91); Alexandria Digital Lit (2/99)
  19.  "Lugosi Rock"  in Postcards from ... (3/08)
  20.  "Maybe they were Symptoms"  in Dark Windows #11+12 (2/08); Sepulchre v1#3 (spr 98)
  21.  "Maze Curtains"  in Dark Windows #18+19 (5/08); Year of the Twist (6/01); Eotu (4/88)
  22.  "Moondust"  in Blank Spaces (2006); AuthorsDen audio (8/06)
  23.  "Mr. Graves"  in film project
  24.  "Ms. North, a Case Study"  in Dark Windows #35 (2/09);authorsDen.com (11/02); Marbles (web, 4/96)
  25.  "Old Emmett's Grave"  in Postcards from ... (Jan 2008)
  26.  "One Mistake at a Time"  in Amazon Shorts (2/06)
  27.  "Patient Music"  in Dark Windows #20 (6/08); Year of the Twist (6/01); Dark Starr (12/86); writing.com (12/01)
  28.  "Pest Problem"  in Blank Spaces (2006); Elysian Fiction #2 (May 02)
  29.  "Point of Exile"  in Dark Windows #13-14 (3/08); Talespinner's Tavern (web, 1997)
  30.  "Sketches of memory"  in Dark Windows #21 (7/08); Chaos (never)
  31.  "Soul of Su-Malja"  in *The Peddler and the Cloud (antho) (12/00)
  32.  "Stargazers"  in AuthorsDen.com (11/02); Contes per a extraterrestres (web, Spain, 11/95); writingTree.com (web, 2/01)
  33.  "Tech Support Blues"  in film project
  34.  "Telescope Eye"  in my Unfuture blog (12/05); Expressions nl (4/01)
  35.  "The Affix"  in Dark Windows #2 (9/07); Eotu online (7/00)
  36.  "The Battle of Charlie's Field"  in my Unfuture blog (11/05); FlashShot #958 (Jun 05)
  37.  "The Box Thing"  in Dark Windows #22 (7/08); Chaos (never)
  38.  "The Claim Pusher"  in Museweek (10/96)
  39.  "The Emerald View"  in truefire.com (8/07); Blank Spaces (2006); Writers Hood Write a Picture Contest winner (web, 12/00)
  40.  "The Goblin Saint"  in Amazon Shorts (2/06)
  41.  "The Impossible Tome"  in Dark Windows #10 (1/08); FlashShot #967 (Jul 05)
  42.  "The Jealous Ground"  in Eotu (web, 2/01)
  43.  "The Killer Sandwich"  in Acc: Twisted Twins 365 project; AuthorsDen (8/06)
  44.  "The Sign"  in my Year of the Twist (6/01); Planet #7 (9/95)
  45.  "The Soup Trick"  in AuthorsDen.com (9/03); Planet Relish #20 (July 2001)
  46.  "The Twist"  in Dark Windows #23-24 (8/08); Year of the Twist (6/01); Not One of Us #1 (9/86); Alexandria Digital Lit (2/99)
  47.  "The Voyager"  in Other Worlds #1 (2/88); Alexandria Digital Lit (2/99)
  48.  "This Piece of Wind"  in Blank Spaces (2006); Weird Fiction Catalog #2 (c1988 never?); writing.com (12/01)
  49.  "To All Sister Capsules"  in NATURE (Jun 4, 2009)
  50.  "Two Guys in a Room with No Color"  in Museweek (10/96)
  51.  "Wailing Well"  in Dark Windows #9 (1/08)
  52.  "Web Fingers"  in Dark Windows #1 (8/07); Planet #22 (web, 6/99)
  53.  "What Angry Children Say"  in Doppelganger #12 (10/90); Alexandria Digital Lit (2/99)
  54.  "Whispering Sunken Stones"  in Dark Windows #5 (10/07)
  55.  "Writers Games"  in my Year of the Twist (6/01); Ouroboros #8 (10/87); Alexandria Digital Lit (2/99)
  56.  "dead guy blues"  in my Unfuture blog (11/05); Absinthe (2002)
Stories in print recently ...
  1.  "A Fine Art of Cheating Death"  in Blank Spaces (2006)
  2.  "Between"  in Blank Spaces (2006); XOddity v1#2 (3/98)
  3.  "Bodyworld"  in Blank Spaces (2006); Ideomancer (web, 12/00)
  4.  "Bricks"  in AnthologyBuilder.com (2/08); Blank Spaces (2006); Xizquil #5 (10/91)
  5.  "Chambers on Io"  in Martian Wave (Jul 05), Wondrous Web Worlds 6 (2006)
  6.  "Cinema Jones"  in Blank Spaces (2006); Steel Caves v2#4 (3/01)
  7.  "Data Dust"  in Fifth Di… (03/06)
  8.  "Headlines"  in Blank Spaces (2006)
  9.  "Jimmy the Box"  in Analog (Jul/Aug 07)
  10.  "Last of the Soft Things"  in AnthologyBuilder.com (2/08); Blank Spaces (2006); Analog (1/97)
  11.  "Morph"  in Blank Spaces (2006)
  12.  "Museum of the Burned"  in Gotta Write Midnight Selections 4/01
  13.  "Other Monsters"  in FlashShot (10/1/06)
  14.  "Radio Disconnect"  in FlashShot (8/19/06)
  15.  "Sailing the Microview"  in Blank Spaces (2006)
  16.  "The Radiations at Home"  in Blank Spaces (2006); Planet Relish #18 (4/01)
  17.  "The Wind & Roses File"  in Blank Spaces (2006)
  18.  "Touch of Midnight"  in AuthorsDen (audio - 2005); FlashShot #245 (6/14/03)
  19.  "Tuesday Came Apart"  in AnthologyBuilder.com (2/08); Maelstrom v1#3 (3/98)
  20.  "Whackety Whack"  in FlashShot #982 (Aug 05)
  21.  "White Forest - A Y2K Tale"  in Blank Spaces (2006); Fantasy, Fairytales & Folklore (web, 1/00)
  22.  "Year of the Fly"  in Blank Spaces (2006); Mindsparks (never)

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