I have opened an account at Dreamwidth. and copied everything relevant I can think of to that account. I don’t yet know how to invite friends to my DW account, so this could be clunky for some time, but I don’t post very often anyway and presumably I’ll learn. If you’re reading this on LJ and plan to have a presence on DW, please follow me over.

“We return. A woman rewinds her life, and a couple revisits a cabin in the woods. We have a magic bullet and an army of ghosts, a voice from the past and a back to the wall, a protective tattoo, people in pieces, and a letter from the dead ( Read more... )

“People who need care sometimes find it in strange places. In this collection, people variously get care from a cabal of busybodies, a demon hand in a suitcase, a dead girl spouting Moby Dick, and a stone filling in as psychiatrist. We have food you can’t eat, spiders on the ceiling, conversation and cardboard boxes, chalk outlines, and free things ( Read more... )

Here’s the standard account of my publications for the year.

Magazine issues and collections (editor and publisher)

Go Now, January 2016.

Not One of Us #55, April 2016.

Not One of Us #56, October 2016.

Journal articles

Robert J. Blendon and John M. Benson, “Income Inequality: The Public and the Partisan Divide,” Challenge: The Magazine of ( Read more... )

Anke recently returned to fiction writing after a long time away, and now her story “Eighty-Eight” is online in the debut issue of Unnerving. (By the way, the link to Unnerving doesn't always seem to work. I can never find it during weekends from my laptop, but I can access it on weekdays from my computer at work ( Read more... )

“Welcome to our thirtieth-anniversary issue. We have gods and ghosts, wraiths and harlequins, a monster, a maze, and Mars, reds and rusalkas, a lost girl’s lost father, bones and stones and boxes ( Read more... )

Our beloved cat died last weekend. There’s never been another like her, and we all miss her. I was going to write a bio of how much she meant to us, but I probably shouldn’t do that to myself.


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“Fire and rain: this issue is pretty elemental. We have a volcano and a torch, oak and ash, a horse of fire; drizzle and flood, the ill in search of a fountain, fast-moving shadows, a drought and a water cure that’s worse. More: druids and voices old, an oracle, an aria, and a portal in the mouth, missing labs and carnivores picked clean, daughters ( Read more... )

“You can decide to go, or someone else will decide for you. To paraphrase a poem, our protagonists carry sins like a passport. One busts out his captive car, another walks down to find her Bird. One goes backwards through swords, while children crawl through a coffin to be healed. And a stubborn woman fights a losing battle against becoming ( Read more... )

“Don’t get out much? Here’s just the thing for you: a home body issue. We have a skeptical owner of a home that’s grown a miraculous (uh) growth, a lottery winner who doesn’t go out except for trouble and finds a body back home, a man whose body hosts minerals for harvest, a rag house, bugs on a window, home fires burning, folks choking on cherry ( Read more... )