I’m having a memorial open house for my mother today. She passed January 2nd, but I’m just now able to face a memorial. ANYWAY, she liked Lonnie best of my characters, and she liked “Lonnie, Me, and the Hound of Hell” (which she persisted in…
Tag: short story excerpt
Here’s a bit from “The Woman Who Wasn’t a Shave-Tail,” one of the stories in my science fiction collection, OTHER EARTH, OTHER STARS. It’s set in the world of SIDESHOW IN THE CENTER RING, which takes place mostly on Marner, a world with a sentient…
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…