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What do I do? I write, I travel, I read, and I stumble far off the beaten path, and I do it all beer in hand and tongue-in-cheek (though not necessarily always mine). Join me for a new short story every Sunday and Wednesday. . . .
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Weren’t you paying attention? The monsters live here. They just help us enter the world of folly by being so weird. We look at them and think, ‘well, if that can exist then anything can exist,’ and we’re there, in the world of folly. A serial about the fictional town of Ascalon, Ohio, set in the present. The story . . .
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An experimental novel combining crass commercialism, reader response, and time-tested themes like love, fear, and desperation. . . .
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A sprawling fantastic tale of the ’60s, supposedly written by “legendary” B-movie director Larry Winchester. . . .
The Darkened Corner covers seventeen years in the life of a traveller, conman, self-hater and hard-drinker, and his continuing obsession with his childhood crush, Katie Rose. Tom Hamilton’s fragmented story is delivered in short, sharp bursts of prose. . . .
The Prodigals follows the lives of four troubled young men in Manchester – Brian, Howard, Declan and the novel’s anti-hero, Travis McGuiggan. It’s a book about friendship, religion, drinking, cruelty and love. It’s also a book about leaving home and returning. . . .
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The house was full of packing-cases. Even the pretty lawn at the side was to pack up, stiffly and slowly, through the bare echoing November. The very robin that her father had so often made, with his own hands, more gorgeous than ever; amber and golden; here, at this bed of thyme, began to speak of carrots. The grand inarticulate . . .
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A young professional in Chicago discovers the nebulous power of style, which subsequently threatens to consume him as he propels himself towards the American Dream. . . .
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The day Keith decides to cheat on Nanda, his wife of five years, he meets Yuni, a laptop-toting teenage girl who leads him to a mysterious woman who calls herself V. Follow Keith from his seductive adventures into a bizarre underworld where he inexplicably finds himself breaking up a powerful crime ring. . . .
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In an alternate present the minds of teen offenders are uploaded into computers for rehabilitation—a form of virtual wilderness therapy. Zach is a homo cognoscens, one of the new humans who can navigate the Fulgrid. Though still a high school student, he is indentured to the Fulgur Corporation as a counsellor. Laura is a homo sapiens. Their story is part . . .
I write a flash fiction piece every week for #fridayflash. Some humorous, some dramatic, some speculative. I also include poems and original illustrations. . . .
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I have well over 100 published short stories to my credit and you can also toss in appearances in fifteen major anthologies around the world (including a number of “Best Of . . . ” volumes). I love the short story format and coming back to it this summer after spending the four years previous working on my “Ilium” novel cycle was exciting and . . .
The credit crunch building slump has caused the number of London archaeological sites to dry up, leaving time on the Archaeologist’s hands to start to notice unsuspected things in the world around him. There are people, groups of people, beings of some sort, living among the general populace, but with something different about them: are they some sort of deity? . . .
Tom Drake is deeply insecure. He hates all that he was. He wishes to be someone else.
It isn’t often that I find myself disagreeing with Grace’s reviews, but on The Tom Drake Experience, I totally do. I’m not going to go so far as to say it’s brilliant, but, to [more . . .]
The day is coming when genre categorizations will collapse around our ears. No one would shove a copy of The Master and Margarita into the fantasy section of a Barnes and Nobles, although it has many things in common with the glossy books that you would find there – talking cats, the devil, levitation. But Bulgakov’s masterpiece is given the [more . . .]