New Old Short Story - Read It Now!
It’s been a long time since I updated this blog. Yes, there have been some technical issues–a WordPress update gone horribly wrong–but the biggest technical problem has been my lack of initiative. Does that qualify as a technical problem? Technically, probably not.
But travel with me now, if you would, back to May 15, 2009, when the world was a little younger, a little less cynical, a little more ready to laugh, and a scrappy prepublication book-review journal called Booklist had just offered an amuse-bouche with its Spotlight on SF/Fantasy–a short story by yours truly, called, “The Read.” A loving parody of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, with a book reviewer as its antihero? Yes, it’s all that, but it’s also so much more.
Well, a little more, anyway. Read on!