Fiction pimpage: Now with sound
If you're unfamiliar with Adam-Troy Castro's work, you're doing yourself a large disservice. As it happens, you now have an easy opportunity to familiarize yourself with it. Podcaster StarShip Sofa is featuring his brilliant story, "Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs." (Tip o' the hat to kradical, the original acquiring editor of the piece.) Of the story, Adam says:
The story starts about about 38 minutes in[to the audio program], and is fifty minutes long.... This is the best story I've ever done, the best I'm ever likely to do. I do, however, need to warn the unwary that it's no walk in the park. Its gentle beginning leads to some dark, violent and upsetting places, before ascending back to relative light.
It's a remarkable piece of writing. Go listen.
Oh, and if I haven't mentioned it already, his novel "Emissaries from the Dead" is terrific, well worth the read.
The story starts about about 38 minutes in[to the audio program], and is fifty minutes long.... This is the best story I've ever done, the best I'm ever likely to do. I do, however, need to warn the unwary that it's no walk in the park. Its gentle beginning leads to some dark, violent and upsetting places, before ascending back to relative light.
It's a remarkable piece of writing. Go listen.
Oh, and if I haven't mentioned it already, his novel "Emissaries from the Dead" is terrific, well worth the read.