excitement and lag-time

I have some exciting news:

A story of mine, "The Telescope," is being published in the seventh issue of Sybil's Garage. Sybil's is a very stylish little magazine, and its content tends toward the beautiful and strange (my favourite flavor of things to read!), so I am delighted.

(as in: do a happy jig and slide up and down the hallway in socks, delighted.)

This will be my first publication, and I find myself a little nervous about the whole thing. I wrote the story such a while ago and the lag-time between then and now is a strange sensation. It's like I did a performance nearly two years ago and it's only now that the light and sound of it are reaching the audience. Weird. But cool.

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And, a friend of mine, the fabulous Keffy, has a story out in Fantasy Magazine. You should go read it. There's even a nifty little comment box where you can say how you feel about it.

something to read on a stormy afternoon

So, it's not actually storming right at this very moment, but thunder did wake me up, along with flashes of lightning (though not much rain), so I hold onto hope that there will be more of it later.

At Clarion, the magnificent Keffy shared a story about advertising and robots and a dead world that surprised me into loving it to the point of minor obsession. It's now up at Apex Magazine. It's called "Advertising at the End of the World," and I am still obsessed with it.

go forth and read

Also, in case you were looking for something to read (and when are you not looking for something to read? What kind of reader are you, if you aren't always looking for something to tear a hole in your head?), two of my friends have stories out in the wild.

Damien G. Walter's "Momentum" is in Art and Things, a very beautiful and possibly lust-worthy magazine. You can get it in cool places like the Tate Modern if you live in the UK. Or you can read it online. "Momentum" is on page 29.

Keffy R. M. Kehrli's "Machine Washable" is in Sybil's Garage, yet another beautiful and lust-worthy bit of paper, which you can procure here. We read the first draft of this story at Clarion, and it was wickedly funny. It's even better now.