You know, sometimes there are real-life horror stories so bizarre no author could have dreamed them up. Well, I couldn’t anyway, nor would I want to.
Just when you thought the story of the former model multilated by a reality television star couldn’t get any weirder, the media now reports that authorities used the serial numbers on her breast implants to identify her body.
Now playing: “Money Jungle” – Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach
Morpheus Tales IV
Another story has found a home.
“Bramblevines,” a dark little piece I workshopped with the San Antonio Writers Guild earlier this year, will run early 2010 in the U.K.-based mag Morpheus Tales. Should be a fun read, so stay tuned.
Incidentally, Morpheus Tales is shaping up to be a real contender of a horror publication. The folks behind it have done a great job of placing pieces by established writers like Joe R. Lansdale and Ray Garton alongside those by newer names in the genre. Not to mention, the art and layout are just plain slick.
Hardest working man in showbusiness: Mr. Joe R. Lansdale. (Photo swiped from John Picacio.)
I’m back and still digging myself out from under work I put off to attend Armadillocon 31 in Austin, the state’s longest-running literary sf/fantasy convention.
It was great to see old pals like John Picacio (fellow Missions Unknown blogger), Scott Cupp (the con’s toastmaster), Chris Roberson (the editor guest of honor) and Joe McKinney (S.A.’s zombie-writing homicide detective) — and to rub shoulders with literary giants like Joe R. Lansdale, who signed books like a madman, and Michael Moorcock, who made a surprise appearance opening night.
I also got to meet swell new folks like Mario Acevedo, Nancy Hightower, Matt Cardin and Vincent and Michelle Villafranca. (By the way, any of you folks ever check out Vincent Villafranca’s art? You really owe it to yourself.)
Can’t wait to do it again next year.
The Fifty-Two Stitches anthology is almost out, and it’s aleady drawn a positive review from Horror Drive-In. That’s good news, of course, because the book features my story “The Regular.”
This is my second story for a Strange Publications anthology, and I’m sure they’ve once again done a fine job. Strange is turning out to be a prolific little press with a nose for high-quality speculative fiction.
The literary site Fiction at Work has selected one of my flash fiction pieces, “Unlike a Horror Movie,” for its weekly Short Shorts feature. It’s more of an existential tale of terror than a conventional horror story. Hope you enjoy it, even if there aren’t any ghosts or ax murders.
Now playing: “Selfs” – Loraxx