"It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only the half of it."

Thursday, June 16, 2005

Me So Crazy (44)

I just spent an hour and a half using numerology to figure out the names of the principal characters for a new short story.

It's a form of madness.

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David Moles said...: Maybe, but it's Philip K. Dick madness. Crazy like a fox.; 1:50 PM
Dave said...: You shouldn't say that until you've read the story.

Although that is something of the feel I'm going for . . .; 11:13 AM

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Bibliography

Novels

Superpowers will be appearing in early 2008! (Tentatively.)

Short Stories

"The Comfort of Thunder" in On Spec Summer 2001
"Vagina Music" at Flashquake for Summer 2003
"The Ichthyomancer Writes His Friend with an Account of the Yeti's Birthday Party" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Number 13, Fall 2003 (Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collecion); Reprinted in The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (Forthcoming)
"The Love Thing" in Grasslimb Number 4, January 2004
"The Three Clocks of Vorstein" in Paradox Number 4 (Online PDF Issue)
"The Lethe Man" in Say . . . (Why Aren't We Crying?), Number 4, May 2004 (Shortlisted for the Speculative Literature Foundation's Fountain Award)
"A NOtE AbOUt thE TYpE" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Number 14, May 2004
"The King of Memphis" in Talebones Issue 28, Summer 2004
"The Colossus Vignettes" in Fortean Bureau Issue 25, August 2004 (Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection)
"Iron Ankles" in Strange Horizons, August 16, 2004 (Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection)
"The New Year's Party, or, Dancing on Sleipner's Bones" in Strange Horizons, December 6, 2004
"Breaking Glass" in The Third Alternative Issue #40, Winter 2004 (Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection)
"Flash Bison" in Rhapsoidia #7, Winter 2005
"Walking to Tahiti" (with Marianne Westphal) in The Dogtown Review #2, May 2005
"A Whole Man" in Talebones Issue 30, Summer 2005 (Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection)
"Virginie and the Fool" in Ideomancer, September 2005
"Screen" at Pindeldyboz, February 22, 2006
"The Water-Poet and the Four Seasons" at Strange Horizons, May 1, 2006 (Reprinted in Fantasy: The Year's Best, Prime Books, edited by Rich Horton)
"Play" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Number 18, May 2006
"Shackles" in Rabid Transit 5: Long Voyages, Great Lies, May 2006
"Five Hundred and Forty Doors" in Twenty Epics
"Grandma Charlie and the Wolves" in Flytrap #6, November 2006
"Manifest Destiny" in Polyphony 6, November 2006
"Proof of Zero" in Spicy Slipstream Stories, Forthcoming
"The Somnambulist" in Moonlit Domes: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Forthcoming
"Oma Dortchen and the Pillar of Story" in Farrago's Wainscot, Forthcoming

Poems

"Jam" in Say . . . Have You Heard This One?, May 2005

Criticism

"Johnny Cash: Bitter Tears," "The Embarrassment: Heyday," and "Poster Children: Junior Citizen" in Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, 11/4/2004
"The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles" by Stephen Koch, at the Mumpsimus
"La Science Des Rêves (a.k.a. The Science of Sleep)" at Strange Horizons
"El Laberinto del Fauno (a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth)" at Strange Horizons

Essay

"On Making Noise: Confessions of a Quiet Kid" in Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales edited by Kate Bernheimer, Forthcoming

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