Read Part 2 here The camera sways and plunges through the woods, up gradual slopes and down into gullies, across a dirty creek, all carpeted in long-dead leaves, all wrapped in that ugly droning noise. There is no context to these woods, other than the title, my name shouting and whispering at me from the […]
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Read Part 1 here The Vanishing of Michael Wehunt is 78 minutes long, but I wouldn’t call it feature length. It’s rough in composition as well as film quality. It meanders, probably to simulate being lost (and variously panicking) in the woods. It looks unedited, but I suspect it was perhaps meticulously edited. I suspect […]
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I happened across a faded old VHS tape in a Maine thrift store/junk shop late last summer while on vacation. It wasn’t until this past week I got around to digging up a DVD/VHS combo in our basement and was half-shocked that the machine still worked. The other half of that shock wasn’t far behind. […]
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I’m proud to share that my story “La quedada fílmica de octubre: Bajo la casa” is a finalist for the Premio Ignotus in the Foreign Story category. The award ceremony will be held in Madrid, Spain, this year at the annual Hispacon. The story appears in Un lugar mejor, the Spanish translation (courtesy of Miguel […]
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Kendall Reviews recently asked me to write a guest post, and since I’ve recently finished writing my first novel, it seemed to be a subject in which I could offer some advice. So rather than talking about my favorite short stories or records to write to, I tried to use my experience for good. If […]
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Justin Burnett dug into me with some questions, bravely facing any worms he might encounter in the soil. I rambled a bit in the hopes a couple of those worms had a little insight to share. You can read the interview here.
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My new short story, “The Pine Arch Collection,” is now live over at The Dark. I’m always happy to publish in this magazine. Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace are excellent and diverse curators, and the fiction they give us is never behind a paywall. This is a slightly idiosyncratic story in that it’s told entirely […]
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