Month: September 2019

Ghostbusters, Spooktacular

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I’ve posted here much less than I used to, but I also should note that I have heaps of posts commenting on RPGs I’ve accumulated and read over the past few years. I didn’t want this blog to become overwhelmed by them all—and some of them are kind of over-detailed—but… well, I think I’m going to start posting them (with “read more” links a paragraph or two in), because, I’m not posting much of anything else here, and because who knows, maybe other people will dig them. I’ll get around to those sooner or later, but for now, I wanted to …

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“Alone With Gandhari” reprinted in Bloody Red Nose

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My short story “Alone With Gandhari” (which originally appeared in Clarkesworld almost a decade ago now) has been reprinted in David Higgins’ Bloody Red Nose: 15 Fears of a Clown anthology.  (For those who don’t recall, this is the one featuring a group of drugged-out lunatic terrorists who dress up like a certain trademarked clown character and attack fast food restaurants and, eventually, decide to attack a high-tech facility where beef is being produced from highly modified cows… and the tale of how one individual gets radicalized to the point of joining these lunatics.)  If you’d like a copy, drop by …

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“Winter Wheat”

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“Winter Wheat” is a story that’s special to me. Like my story “Prodigal” (and several other of my best-received stories) I first drafted it in the summer of 2006, while I was in Seattle for Clarion West. My father had unexpectedly passed away earlier that year—a few days after my last conversation with him, on the phone—and writing the story was part of my working through my feelings about our relationship, as you might imagine if you’ve read it. Not that there’s a one-to-one relationship in any respect: I feel like I’m a lot more like Jim’s dad, and Jim’s …

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