So, a couple of my stories have been released into the wild… er, I mean, published in different books this month, both of which are available digitally, which means yes, you can go and buy them right now! Like, right now.
(Just what you were hoping I’d say, right?)
And that’s the stuff I didn’t make up, believe it or not. It’s a joy to be able to write a story about a piece of music I’ve loved for so long.
It’s collected in a book of fantastical stories about books, including work by some wonderful writers, titled Bibliotheca Fantastica, which was published by the indie press Dagan Books. The book was edited by Claude Lalumière and Don Pizarro, and is worth checking out. (I think right now it’s only available as an ebook, but at a good price and a wide array of formats, as discussed here.)
(My story notes for “The Rite” are here.)
Yeah, that’s the title. It’s another Machine of Death story, included in the second volume of the Machine of Death book series, titled This Is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death, which should be hitting Amazon in a few hours–the release date is 16 June, but of course that’s North American time.
Briefly put, this one is about what happens when you let loose a machine that foretells how people will die in a society where the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been mismanaged for decades, and finally hits a point where people decide something has to be done. It ain’t pretty…