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I saw somewhere on the web that May is short story month.  So I thought, oh that would be a good opportunity to share some stuff.  And then I wandered into the bibliography section of this site and discovered a wilderness of horrors.  It’s like the garden in that creepy house ( Read more... )

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I recently installed some web stat tracking stuff on this site - because I’ve had it for about 3 years, and it felt like time I should get round to it.  But I noticed that about once a day I get a hit for “tentacle fiction.”  So I checked that out, and apparently this site gives ( Read more... )

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So today is the last day of The Nyarlathotep Event over at GeekDad.  If you’ve been holding out to read the whole thing in one sitting, now is your chance.  Arthur Wallace and his trusty co-worker Clyde face cultists, avatars of fear and madness, and Snuggles the bear as they ( Read more... )

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Not much time to post today so I thought I’d put up here the flash fiction piece I did for Daily Cabal which ended up being the inspiration for the recently sold novel. Hopefully give people a vague sense for things.
The Changing of the Times

by Jonathan Wood

It used to be all ( Read more... )

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Sad days are upon us.  Old man Farrago is making his final bow-the final issue of Farrago’s Wainscot is upon us.

The Farrago team have been exceedingly good to me.  They are responsible for my first published stories and my first go at editing. Darin Bradley and his team are ( Read more... )

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I have a new story, The Mathematics of Faith up at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, which is still one of my favorite ‘zines.  And not just because this is the second of my stories they’ve published.  Though… well, partly that’s why.  But they have some wonderfully weird and exciting ( Read more... )

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UPDATE: This post has been getting a lot of hits, and the link below is dead, so here is the story it should have pointed to:

The Ballad of Octavia and Mr Head

It’s a beautiful thing.

Some people have a hole in themselves. Mr Head had a hole in himself. It was in his face. People ( Read more... )

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Thank god for Google Alerts, otherwise I couldn’t spam the interwebs with more story news.  But I just discovered that my short story “The Queen of Clockwork” is now up at Steampod.  An actual proper short story sale and everything so there it has passed through an editorial ( Read more... )

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I always feel a bit bad popping on here only to plug a Daily Cabal story, but there is a new one up.  I’m pleased with this one. I’ve been in a bit of a flash fiction funk lately, reprising a couple of old stories when inspiration failed to strike.  Not often a problem for me-not ( Read more... )

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Another new story up at Daily Cabal today.  The few long-time followers of this blog may recognize it from the old LJ, and yes it is a reprise, which usually I try to avoid.  But the flu had me at a disadvantage this week and rather killed my creativity.  So, the best [imho] of ( Read more... )