Land of Youth

I have a story in this handsome-looking anthology from Gypsum Sound Tales called Colp Issue 1: The Passage of Time.   That great cover was done by Luke Spooner at Carrion House.

My story, 'Land of Youth', has a journalist interviewing a former film actress at her home in Ireland which she claims was built on a fairy fort and where, as a result, time gets confused. It's about how we expect our movie idols to remain ever youthful and how, in our imaginations, they kind of do.

I wrote the story shortly after hearing about the sad death of Carrie Fisher back in December 2016.  Fisher, playing Princess Leia in Star Wars, was one of my childhood crushes, and her death got me thinking about the way film stars are at the mercy of passing time like the rest of us, but at the same time immortal in the roles they play.

Twice-Told: A Collection of Doubles

When C.M. Muller announced his intention to release a doppelganger-themed anthology back in January I knew wanted to write something for it.  Never did I think I'd be heading up such an amazing line-up as the one below.  Twice-Told: A Collection of Doubles will be released in February 2019.  

“The Last Salvador” — Tim Jeffreys
“Details Which Would Otherwise Be Lost to Shadow” — Clint Smith
“Zwillingslied” — Patricia Lillie
“Static” — Chris Shearer
“Stuck With Me” — Shannon Lawrence
“The Fifth Set” — Charles Wilkinson
“Murder Song” — Craig Wallwork
“The Final Diagnosis of Doctor Lazare” — David Peak
“Endangered” — Jason A. Wyckoff
“The Half-Life of Plastic” — Esther Rose
“Eidetic” — Steve Rasnic Tem
“They Are Us (1964) : An Oral History” — Jack Lothian
“Birds of Passage” — Gordon B. White
“The Half-Souled Woman” — Nina Shepardson
“Released” — Timothy B. Dodd
“As With Alem” — Farah Rose Smith
“The Fall Guy” — Tom Johnstone
“Scordatura” — Jess Landry
“Stringless Puppetry” — C.C. Adams
“The Bath House” — Tim Major
“Picky Yunn” — J.C. Raye
“One Last Mile” — Erica Ruppert