Metrophilias e-book Free

The kindle version of my book Metrophilias is free through this Friday.

Rome: a Metrophilia

From my book Metrophilias

Rome

A group of rich men convened together. They lay on couches arranged around low tables. They drank and they ate.

“My wife has got herself a lover,” one man said. “An ex-gladiator. An Egyptian with powerful shanks.”

“My wife’s lover is a poet.”

“Mine has a Greek slave who she keeps perfumed.”

“The lover of my wife,” a certain wealthy merchant by the name of Labrax said, “is kept in a pool on our courtyard.”

“Charming.”

“It is an octopus, with eight muscular arms, each one designed for love.”

“Well,  a happy wife means a happy husband,” said a certain senator, rolling a grape languidly between his plump fingers.

PS Publishing: The New and Perfect Man

PS Publishing has just released the TOC to Postscripts 24/25: The New and Perfect Man, which contains my 12,500 word story Dr. Black, Thoughts & Patents.  The list of authors on this one is really outstanding. Due out in December. TOC as follows:

“The New And Perfect Man” — Carol Emshwiller

“Frightened Angels” — Jeremy Adam Smith

“To See Infinity Bare” — Rudy Rucker & Paul Di Filippo

“Electric Breakfast” — Paul Meloy

“A Crack In The Ceiling Of the World” — Michael Kelly

“The Dog Parade” — Lawrence Person

“The Last Heretic” — Darrell Schweitzer

“The Story Of Princess Rosebud” — Alan Peter Ryan

“The Inn Of Distant Sorrows” — Thomas Tessier

“A Moment At the House” — T.M. Wright

“Whisper” — Richard Calder

“The Primate Sanctuary” — Quentin S. Crisp

“Call Me” — Bob Strother

“So Loved” — Matthew Hughes

“Confessions Of A Tyrant’s Double” — Gregory Norminton

“The Girl On Mount Olympus” — Christopher Fowler

“Euphoria” — Robert Reed

“Christ The Painter”– Allen Ashley

“Your Golden Hands” — Andrew Hook

“The Ghost Of Lillian Bliss” — Rio Youers

“Ashes In The Water” — Joel Lane and Mat Joiner

“Child Of Evil Stars” — Anne-Sylvie Homassel

“Her Fingers Like Whips, Her Eyes Like Razors” — Jay Lake

“Dr. Black, Thoughts & Patents” — Brendan Connell

“The Room Beyond” — Ramsey Campbell

“Thrownness” — Adam Roberts

“Imago” — Keith Brooke

“The Vorkuta Event” — Ken MacLeod

Tractate of Graceful Clouds and Gay Phoenixes

This piece of mine is up here at HTLMGIANT.

Last Drink Bird Head

…is on its way.

A charity anthology for literacy, edited by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer.

TOC:

Daniel Abraham
Michael Arnzen
Steve Aylett
KJ Bishop
Michael Bishop
Desirina Boskovich
Keith Brooke
Jesse Bullington
Richard Butner
Catherine Cheek
Matthew Cheney
Michael Cisco
Gio Clairval
Alan M. Clark
Brendan Connell
Paul Di Filippo
Stephen R. Donaldson
Rikki Ducornet
Clare Dudman
Alistair Duncan
Scott Eagle
Brian Evenson
Eliot Fintushel
Jeffrey Ford
Richard Gehr
Felix Gilman
Jon Courtney Grimwood
Rhys Hughes
Paul Jessup
Antony Johnston
John Kaiine
Henry Kaiser
Caitlin R. Kiernan
Tessa Kum
Ellen Kushner
Jay Lake
Tanith Lee
Stina Leicht
Therese Littleton
Beth Adele Long
Dustin Long
Nick Mamatas
JM McDermott
Sarah Monette
Kari O’Connor
Ben Peek
Holly Phillips
Louis Phillips
Tim Pratt
Cat Rambo
Mark Rich
Bruce Holland Rogers
Nicholas Royle
G Eric Schaller
Ekaterina Sedia
Ramsey Shehadeh
Peter Straub
Victoria Strauss
Michael Swanwick
Mark Swartz
Alan Swirsky
Rachel Swirsky
Sonya Taaffe
Justin Taylor
Steve Rasnic Tem
Jeffrey Thomas
Scott Thomas
John Urbancik
Genevieve Valentine
Kim Westwood
Leslie What
Andrew Steiger White
Conrad Williams
Liz Williams
Neil Williamson
Caleb Wilson
Gene Wolfe
Jonathan Wood
Marly Youmans
Catherine Zeidler

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Cern Zoo

I got my copy of Cern Zoo today. A nice book. Out of the nine issues of  Nemonymous, I am in three…which is nice.

The Green Flash

I just got some copies of a zine called The Green Flash; with a story of mine called The Horse Shrine.

Wonderwaan

My story The Last Mermaid just came out in Dutch translation in the magazine Wonderwaan. So, I guess it has been done in French and Dutch now… 

Dr. Black at Red Demon Temple

I sold this story to Wheatland Press, for their Polyphony 7 anthology.

The Tongue in Spanish

My story The Tongue has been translated into Spanish, as La Lengua, and is up at La Idea Fija.