In this excerpt, Tiny is going to Scrappy’s junkyard to get a part for a washing machine. Lonnie wants to come along. In a moment of weakness, Tiny agrees. Lonnie believes Scrappy has “a garden of unearthly pleasure,” which Tiny puts down as nonsense, but…
So a couple of weeks ago, I recommended Reedsy.com’s Book Title Generator. I played with it a while, and it threw up the most unpromising title ever: 2619: Prayer So of course I wrote a story with that as the title. I read it to…
Today, I share a sample from one of the stories in SHIFTY: TALES FROM THE WORLD OF SAGE, the companion book to my fantasy trilogy. In this snippet, a town invites a troupe of traveling players to come by night to negotiate an appearance. The…
