The first anthology from Lame Goat Press, Horror Through the Ages is available now. This has a great list of contributors – Jodi MacArthur, Robert C Eccles, Kevin Wallis and so on – 27 contributors in all. Edited by Christopher Jacobsmeyer. The collection includes my story “The Stone Goddess”. It’s available now from CreateSpace for $15.95 (US) plus shipping. It’ll be on Amazon soon, so you can bundle it up with other Christmas gifts.
MicroHorror Contest Results
The MicroHorror Halloween Contest results are in:
Chris Allinotte for Make ’Em Cheer
Kevin G. Bufton for A Letter From the Trenches
Oonah V Joslin for Smolensk–The Second Time
Brian Laing for The King’s Grave
Caroline Robinson for Samhain
Chris Yodice for First Train to Deadman
Nathan has done a cool video with Conrad Brooks to announce the winners. Congratulations to all the winners. Oh, what do we have to do to beat Oonah? Try again next year, I guess.
Torn asunder … well tutoring just about over
Well today is the deadline for getting my creative writing tutoring back to the university. It’s done, bar one student who had an extension, and once that’s done the summer is mine to write and create. Current plans involve a new project of stories and inter-linked stories and a new blog to separate the writing out from the music.
Meantime, check out this cool new flash story from Joshua Scribner – Closer to pure – on Flashes in the Dark. Very creepy twist on the vampire idea.
Coincidence
Okay, I know that that some of you who have read both stories from the last couple of posts – “Vampire Gustave …” and “Puncture Wound” – have noticed they have something in common. Yet the stories were written months apart, submitted months apart, and accepted months apart. That they came out within a couple of days is just coincidence. Kind of a cool coincidence though, I think.
… Vampire Gustav …
My flash story “The Vampire Gustave at the End of the Universe” has been published today in issue 359 of Bewildering Stories. This is an unusual one for me, more conceptual than anything. Read it here.
Puncture Wound – new story out now
My story Puncture Wound is out now in the November issue of Antipodean Science Fiction. This is an inter-linked story, a prequel if such a thing is possible, to my story How Things Fall, which was on the same site last year.
nb – 23 December: now archived – see this post for details
Jodi MacArthur – writer
Keep an eye out for Jodi’s fiction – she’s had some killer stories in The New Flesh, Flashes in the Dark, etc., with loads more coming out. She’ll be in the Horror Through The Ages anthology too with her story “Skin”, right after my story “The Stone Goddess” – I’m honoured to be rubbing shoulders with her. Check out Jodi’s blog here.
Angel Zapata wins Flashes in the Dark Summer Chiller contest
Big ups to Angel Zapata whose story “Surrogate Fruit” won the contest. The full results are here. Some good stories in there – worth checking out.
Thanks to Lori and Bob for the contest too – awesome to have a set of stories there linked by a theme.
Vampire …
My story “The Vampire Gustav at the End of the Universe” is scheduled for issue 359 of Bewildering Stories, coming out on November 2nd.
MicroHorror Contest entry
I entered the MicroHorror Halloween contest again. The theme for the contest this year was “The Past” so I wrote a new story – “Past Glass”. Read it (and other entries) here.
Triple V Publishing 