Browsing the archives for the The First Line tag

Attack of an Image Monkey: A New Story is Born

“Writing should feel easy, like a monkey driving a speed boat / Close your eyes… breath… ladle into that barrel of monkeys  you call a head and scoop out an image monkey / Now let that image monkey drive a speed boat, and you, you water ski behind it / Stay behind the image and [...]

“Mindgames” Accepted!

“Mindgames” the story that narrowly missed getting into Superqueeroes got accepted this week into Project for a New Mythology, a quarterly literary journal with a stance on artistic social mindfulness. The issue with “Mindgames” gets printed later this month, so I’m very excited to have my first non-The First Line credit. Thanks to Brian for [...]

Superqueeroes… and Other Writing News

I’ve just completed my first short story in about four years! It’s a superhero story for an anthology with the tentative title of Superqueeroes. Will found the call for submissions a couple weeks ago and I wrote most of the story last Thursday and Friday. I just put the finishing touches on it this morning. [...]