Anybody catch that “Little Lambs” story of mine IRON HORSE ran a few months ago? One of my favorites ever. Looks like it’s coming out again in November, in Ann and Jeff Vandermeer’s THE WEIRD:A COMPENDIUM OF STRANGE AND DARK FICTIONS. Couldn’t be happier about that.…

Which, isn’t that an old TC Boyle story? It always stuck with me, anyway. But, only mentioning it because it means ‘snow,’ and snow’s in this story of mine up at Juked, “Snow Monsters.” My snow story’s not nearly so long as “Termination Dust,” though. And, also, there’s “Monsters” in the titlte, which never hurts. …

New story up over there, here. My claim is that it’s all made-up. Except for the animal parts.…

New story up over at Zack Wentz’s excellent New Dead Families.…

setting: Austin, Texas

characters:
– a father
– his daughter
– various chupacabras
– various border patrol agents
– some people to kill righteously

publisher: Trapdoor Book2.

synopsis: the story of the reconciliation between a daughter and her long-gone father, as complicated by the fact that he’s a bunny-headed zombie

place in The Bunnyhead Chronicles: first

date: to be announced

state of the writer: happiness

comment: on my Fa…

Very proud to be part of Dzanc’s Best of the Web anthology this year. Proud to be under a cover this cool, too:
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looks like that “Lonegan’s Luck” (a zombie western) I had in NEW GENRE a few months ago’s going to be in The Best Horror of the Year volume 2, ed. by Ellen Datlow. Very cool, very excited.

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For me, anyway. However, the caveat — movies I haven’t seen yet:

THE HURT LOCKER: the title kept me away, yeah. very undescriptive. or, maybe makes perfect sense afterward, but none before.
500 DAYS OF SUMMER: dug the trailer, did the actors, heard great stuff about it, but, being not-horror, it kept slipping down the list.
THE FANTASTIC MR FOX: I still trust Wes Anderson. will see this one before too long, here.
ANTICHRIST: man, the Green Goblin and some scene tha…

not based on a true story

So I read more fiction than non-fiction. It’s a moral failing, I know: I prefer the make-believe. Too, though, I mean I write fiction. Makes sense to read it, yeah? Where else am I going to learn technique, cue into little narrative shuffles this or that writer pulled off, all that? To take it a little further, if I want to be part of the ‘dialogue’ of fiction, then I need to be listening to what the other writers are saying. But this starts …

In Five Words or Less:

Boring title, good movie.

In More than Five Words, with / without spoilers:

In 1998, Sam Raimi adapted Scott Smith’s debut sensation A Simple Plan (1993) for us, and, though a lot of the narrator’s nuances were lost in the compression, still, Smith had written a strong enough dramatic spine that his story survived the transition, and made Paramount some money. Ten years later, now, Ron Howard has adapted Smith’s sophomore novel The Ruins to the scr…