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Archive for October, 2009

New Story up at FiveChapters

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Espe­cial for Hal­loween­time, “The Ones That Got Away,” the somewhat-title story from the new col­lec­tion and proud par­tic­i­pant in Paul Trem­blay and Sean Wallace’s Phan­tom: Going Beyond the Scare.

VI">A Sentimental Education: Saw VI

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

One of the big axioms of sto­ry­telling is that you know a char­ac­ter best by the deci­sions he or she makes under extreme cir­cum­stances. It’s why you push your char­ac­ters out into the street, see how they react when traffic’s slam­ming in from all sides at once. Granted, you can rig your story so that […]

Paranormal Activity

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Got an article/review/essay (‘response?’) up for it over at Pop­mat­ters. Kind of wanted to call it Gep­petto mon Amour, but fig­ured that might show my roots too much. Those being all in France, yes. The LINK. Would slap some cool images up here, too, but the guys who do the art over at Pop­mat­ters have […]