"The Radiator Burped" Published
"The Radiator Burped" is now out in the (FREE PDF!) Fall issue of Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine. I wrote this story after Phil challenged me, when I was whining about not writing, to write a story about "a fairy and a dragon." I was feeling contrary, and neither fairy nor dragon is exactly what you might expect from that phrase.
It was difficult finding just the right home for a half-horror/half-humorous modern fantasy story about a gay man's trouble finding a person to pay half the rent, so I'm quite pleased.
Excerpt:
Eric chewed on his pencil as he re-wrote his ad. GPM seeks N/S housemate(s) for spacious two-bedroom . . . but he didn't want a pair of newlyweds. If he wanted cooing doves, he could have gotten them from his second-to-last boyfriend, the pet store owner.
Uniquely decorated . . . because his third-to-last boyfriend had wanted to be an interior decorator and had thought that psychedelic flower wallpaper best expressed Eric's artistic personality. Add in Eric's practice of displaying his paintings in progress, and sometimes the apartment hosted kaleidoscopic clashes of color and style.
Fully furnished apt. with washer/dryer . . . though the dryer had a tendency to shrink laundry, especially expensive shirts, which was the final straw for his last boyfriend, and the reason Eric couldn't pay rent.
None of the respondents to his last ad had seemed quite right . . . in the head.
"Hi! This is Eric. Please leave a message after the beep."
Read more.
It was difficult finding just the right home for a half-horror/half-humorous modern fantasy story about a gay man's trouble finding a person to pay half the rent, so I'm quite pleased.
Excerpt:
Eric chewed on his pencil as he re-wrote his ad. GPM seeks N/S housemate(s) for spacious two-bedroom . . . but he didn't want a pair of newlyweds. If he wanted cooing doves, he could have gotten them from his second-to-last boyfriend, the pet store owner.
Uniquely decorated . . . because his third-to-last boyfriend had wanted to be an interior decorator and had thought that psychedelic flower wallpaper best expressed Eric's artistic personality. Add in Eric's practice of displaying his paintings in progress, and sometimes the apartment hosted kaleidoscopic clashes of color and style.
Fully furnished apt. with washer/dryer . . . though the dryer had a tendency to shrink laundry, especially expensive shirts, which was the final straw for his last boyfriend, and the reason Eric couldn't pay rent.
None of the respondents to his last ad had seemed quite right . . . in the head.
"Hi! This is Eric. Please leave a message after the beep."
Read more.