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“Young Miss Frankenstein Regrets” live at Chizine

Reanimation gives rise to all sorts of
regrets, as one forgets the
repercussions sure to follow the
reappearance of the dead. . .

ChiZine  is holding a fund drive to cover operating expenses.  To support their campaign, they’ve relaunched the site with a new look, new content, and a Mega Issue, with poetry and fiction from past contributors to the magazine.

This week’s installment of the relaunch Mega Issue includes my poem “Young Miss Franenstein Regrets.”  Read fiction by  Joel Arnold, Scott Emerson Bull, Michael Colangelo, Richard Larson, Livia Llewellyn, Stewart O’Nan, and Stephen M. Wilson, and poetry from Camille Alexa, Charles Clifford Brooks III, P. S. Cottier, R. G. Evans, and Jennifer Jerome, all in one glorious place.

(artwork is Cactus Man by Odilon Redon, charcoal on paper, 1881)

“Sarah 87” makes Tangent’s Recommended Reading list

Her flesh is pink and healthy. Her muscles bunch and contract beneath mine. Her lungs fill with air and her heart beats. Each night I lie my allotted minutes beside her, content to listen to the sound of her breathing, to watch the quiver of her breasts as her chest rises and falls. In all these ways she’s alive, though her mind is the dead vacant emptiness of a hive creature of Antholos System. . .

My short story “Sarah 87” receives a star on Tangent Online’s 2010 Recommended Reading list.  This story first appeared in issue #11 of Murky Depths, still available  at the site. 

Huge thanks to Tangent and to Nathan Goldman for the mention.

“Over a Narrow Sea” goes live at Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #60

My short story “Over a Narrow Sea” has gone live at Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine:

This is how I choose to remember it….

 The night was a rousing success. I swept down the main staircase just before the twelfth hour’s first strike on the great hall clock as my uncle proposed his toast to the infamous Warlord of Mekk and twelve hundred other guests. I’d dressed as my uncle ordered—in my best gown with its torturous collar digging into my neck, the tight-laced boots which hid my deformity, and that inane sash dangling from my left shoulder announcing my agecoming and my position as heir to the House of Toth. If I wore also a sharp knife strapped to my thigh and the glitter of rebellion in my eyes, well…there were no such orders for those. Those were all mine. . . .
Read the story free in its entirety here.

A Proposal for Perspective

My very short piece “A Proposal for Perspective” kicks off the December 2010 issue of Semaphore Magazine, which is gorgeous and free and from New Zealand, so it could hardly be more awesome.  A teaser:

“ waxers wax lyrical of slipping into sleep,
of dipping into dreams
as though to be unconscious
for no certain duration and
with no certainty of waking
is somehow a welcome thing

how like death!
breathing, yes, but senseless . . . “

December 2010 Issue

Full issue includes “A Proposal for Perspective,” by Camille Alexa; “My Dad, the Tuatara,” by A. J. Fitzwater; “Dot Come,” by Alexandra Seidel; “Passport Revoked,” by Campbell Taylor; “Prometheus (revisited),” by Alexandra Seidel; “The Minotaur’s Wife,” by Megan Arkenberg; “Ms Brellin,” by Therese Arkenberg; and “Sounds After We Were Gone,” by H. Edgar Hix.