Originally published on Rinn Reads 13 Feb 2014. You see, the thing is, I’m a story guy. I would be a story guy even if I wasn’t also a writer of fiction and therefore a producer of stories myself. My hunger for story is insatiable; it is in large part what drives me. It probably […]
From the short story “Death Every Seventy-Two Minutes,” appearing this month at Lightspeed. {Negelein is at his workstation working on the Lafferty file when the cannibal’s bone spear arcs over the sea of cubicles and strikes just above his right ear, penetrating his skull with a wet crunch. Oblivion is not quite instantaneous; his neurons […]
Originally published on Facebook 16 March 2016. One of the things we lost when great special effects became possible is audience participation in the illusion. On stage, a simple wooden frame becomes Willy Loman’s house. The audience builds the space. Two chairs placed side by side can be a car. A man walking with poor […]