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Excerpt
The air is rank, with the smell of old things, long left to decay, and I stalk through the halls hunting the last Gorgon. The world has not been kind to Medusa’s progeny, has not tolerated their presence or proclivities. For as the rest of the world seeks to change, to evolve and transmute the world around it, the Gorgons seek to keep things as they were – in silent stasis. In stone.
That they don’t deserve the treatment they’ve received is none of my concern. Their time is passing out of this world like the old ages, like the age of harsh breath and cold steel, my mother’s age, has given way to a time of gunpowder and steam. As the pistol I hold in my trembling hand attests. And I need the last gasp of the old world to aid me in the new.
Bio
I'm a graduate of the 2008 Clarion West Writers Workshop and currently live in New York City. I have an inordinate fondness for beer, wine, zeppelins, and the creatures that live in the deepest parts of the ocean.
Publications
“Card Sharp”, upcoming in The Way of the Wizard
“Manhattan Magic”, upcoming in Dreams of Decadence
“Doors”, upcoming in GUD
“The Furies” (reprint), Skulls and Crossbones
“The Juggernaut”, Steampunk Tales, Issue 4
“The Emperor’s Gift”, Shimmer Magazine – Clockwork Jungle Book
“Pumpkinhead”, Shadows of the Emerald City
“The Furies”, Shimmer Magazine – Pirate Issue [Honorable Mention in the 2008 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror]
Writing Description
I like to write a bit of everything, with the common ingredient being a touch of the weird. I like to write both short stories and novels and like to range the genres, going as far as westerns and mysteries (sometimes in the same story).
Goals
I intend to finish a chapter of my current novel for each week of the Write-a-thon.
