"Visages of Betrayal and Madness" in THE MONSTERS NEXT DOOR

Eldritch Mistress in APHELION

Electric Blue Sparks in APHELION

Editing is Censorship
Stephen Colbert said it - editing is censorship. He stated this fact while interviewing his guest Harold Evans:http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=254660So, all you editors out there, stop being censors! Don't filter what readers want to read! Don't filter what brilliant writers, poets, reporters, and hacks want to write! (I say with an impish grin on my face and a mischievous glint in my eye - there are always blogs for the truly brilliant stuff.)

Bigfoot not an Ape...
...if it truly exists, at least according to the primatologist Esteban Sarmiento:http://www.bigfootencounters.com/interviews/esteban.htmWhile I may be no primatologist, and only have a B.S. in Biology, this is something I've been saying quietly for years. For all their wildness, in some ways Sasquatches look and act too human to be in the great ape branch of the bushy primate family tree. I always thought Bigfoot was closer to us than it was to the gorilla, appearances aside. I only briefly bought into the "Gigantopithecus theory", then discarded it in my own mind after Bubba the Bigfoot moved into

Ouch! That Rejection Hurt!
I don't like to post about rejections as a rule, but I seem to be doing it a lot lately. And I just had to talk about this one, since it was perhaps a bigger blow than the usual rejection.All five poems that I submitted for consideration in a vampire anthology, including three reprints, a cinquain chain of four cinquains about the Leanan-Sidhe, and an eighty-line piece about a ghoulish vampire of alpine lore, were turned down. I was really hoping the editor would find at least one of the five worthy for inclusion. The fact that he didn't makes me question my abilities as a poet. Having all five rejected at one fell swoop was quite a blow. Ouch!I'm beginning to hate v

"weeping tree" in SCIFAIKUEST
My horrorku "weeping tree" has been published in the on-line version of Scifaikuest. Check it out! (THIS should take you right to the horrorku page. Just scroll down the page to find my contribution.)"Weeping tree" combines the concept of a weeping willow with the potentially dangerous, and possibly even murderous, animate willow of folklore (think Tolkien's Old Man Willow). I play a bit on the name weeping willow (although I never mention willow by name). Why does the tree weep? Perhaps it weeps for a bitter loss, one it must

A Leviathan Ascendant in MindFlights
"A Leviathan Ascendant" now appears on the cover of the November 2009 issue of the e-zine MindFlights. Check it out!