October 2008

A recent discussion over at the SFReader forums on developing a thick skin in the short fiction submissions game got me thinking about rejection, and how it doesn’t really bother me anymore. I’m not bragging, I certainly haven’t had nearly the level of success or landed the sales to many of markets that I most [...]

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A carnival should be all growls, roars like timberlands stacked, bundled, rolled and crashed, great explosions of lion dust, men ablaze with working anger, pop bottles jangling, horse buckles shivering, engines and elephants in full stampede through rains of sweat while zebras neighed and trembled like cage trapped in cage.
But this was like old movies, [...]

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Nothing is ever lost. If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life. From an ever-roaming curiosity in all the arts, from bad radio to good theatre, from nursery rhyme to symphony,  from jungle [...]

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Issue 2 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies went live today and I wanted to post a note over here to remind anyone that isn’t already on BCS’s mailing list to go check it out. I’m about halfway through the second part of Chris Willrich’s ‘The Sword of Loving Kindness’ and am not disappointed.
And once you’ve read [...]

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This month’s Morpheus Tales continues to deliver horror in all its varieties, from the in-your-face gruesome to the bizarre and the contemplative. There’s the satirical science fiction story ‘Watch Out For Falling Prices’ by David M. Fitzpatrick where a man goes to a mega-department store for discount brain surgery, a dark fantasy with a mythic [...]

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