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New publications all over the map …

… but when it’s a digital map, it’s right in your lap. So fun to have a new short story (remember, this is fiction, not auto-biography, ahem) in Horror Sleaze…

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October 14, 2021
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All the really good ideas die in the e-mail ‘Trash’ bucket

(Editor’s note: Despite the proliferation of social media, e-mail is still the killer app. It fosters business, and healthy, creative personal interaction. This is a transcript of an actual exchange,…

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May 2, 2016
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Sensitive Skin gives hugs, viz to “Santa Fe Three-way”

What is retirement? The American dream, right? Shed the job, cruise into the easy life. Lawn chairs and mai tais by the pool. Or a heart attack at 66, bored…

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June 10, 2023

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    Waiting on a shaky premise for the garbage man to come

    chiselch / December 31, 2015 / 0 Comments

    Streaks of apricot light dance above the eastern horizon, a band plays somewhere down below, and fireworks pock the Oaxaca dawn as I haul the garbage can down free-form concrete pavement one block…

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