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I can say without equivocation I have never shot a pizza guy for being 13 seconds late with a delivery. I have never shot anyone for any reason. But I swear to you I have talked on the phone with… READ MORE
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In 1993 I decided I needed a dose of furry companionship. I went to the animal shelter and picked out a cat. A black cat. I named him Pavlov. Get it? Moving on, that first night, when I came home… READ MORE
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From Amazon: Adventures in the Arcane is back! And we’ve expanded to eight thrilling stories. The characters you love from Volume I return, including Captain Argo, Dominic Ashwood, Waylon and Jester, Dempsey and Drood. Our guest authors, including pulp legend… READ MORE
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This is a short story, and it is short even for that. I say up front because I don’t want you to think you’ve been tricked out of your money (pardon the seasonal pun). At 99 cents, “Trick-or-Treat” is priced… READ MORE
Yours truly (right) signs copies of "Full Spectrum 4" with Ray Aldridge (left) at a signing event at the Waldenbooks at Santa Rosa Mall in Mary Esther, Fla., in 1993. I don't know who took this photo.
I have been writing since the eighth grade. I began selling professionally in the mid–’90s and as recently as last year made the finals of the British Fantasy Award. Around 2000 I began to wonder if there was any point… READ MORE
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From Amazon: Imagine a future without cyberspace or without the Web or virtual reality. What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn’t you know? Today’s top masters of speculative fiction… READ MORE
“The Road Stops at Nowhere,” by Denis Beckett, 80 pp, NDA Press, 1998. It was our annual summer ritual: a long vacation trip by automobile. Each of us had our roles in this undertaking: We kids were responsible for collecting… READ MORE
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The genesis of my story, “I Feel My Body Grow,” in “100 Wicked Little Witch Stories” was simple: I wanted to sell a story to “100 Wicked Little Witch Stories.” During the ‘90s writer and editor Stefan Dziemianowicz edited a… READ MORE