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 …