Richard Matheson’s short story, “Dance of the Dead”, is a fine example of matching up pacing and action. The story opens with four college kids racing across the plains in a “Rotor-Motors Convertible, Model C, 1997”. The kids are engaged in drinking, drugs, and sex as …

I got up this morning, groggy as hell. Yeah, getting up at 4 am will do that to ya. But, it’s paying off! In my inbox was my first acceptance notice! My short story, Gray, is to be published in the January 2009 edition of Necrotic Tissue! Sweeeeet… I’m going back to bed.

you sense my hesitation. good. This is the color of DREAM we are children, unseeing we open our eye unlocking the verse and meter of the universe. This is the color of FORGET it is here look closer. this is the color This is the color of SAD baby girl, club-footed opens her eyes. pressed between hot …