Weird Linkage Fixed for ‘The Last of His Kind’

Lately I’ve been noticing clicks on an outgoing link to Amazon from my site to a . . . well, a spear. I was baffled, really, as I didn’t remember linking to Cold Steel’s assegai in any posts — and if I had wanted to demonstrate what an assegai was, for instance in a review of Imaro or something, I would have linked to wikipedia, and not a modern reproduction.

However, I was recently shopping for a stout walking stick — something to keep the dogs and orcs at bay during my morning walks. I remember sharing links with a friend about which models I might buy . . . and I had a vague recollection of my selections escalating in absurdity up through war clubs and tomahawks until I was suggesting that perhaps a spear would be the best dog-defense.

Somehow, when I was intending to put a link to my story in the latest issue of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, ‘The Last of His Kind‘ (which got a great review here), I put in the link to the spear. And didn’t notice. So, whenever I kept seeing people following the link to the assegai I kept hunting around my site, wondering what on earth had prompted me to link to it in the first place. So, for anyone that wondered if maybe they had missed the punchline to that particular joke . . . it was just me goofing up.

I also fixed a dead link to ‘20,000 Light Years to Lilliput‘ at Darwin’s Evolutions, which is a story that not only has a mild rejuvenative effect on the reader, but has been shown to partially reverse male pattern baldness.