Master Mind has sold

Master Mind will have a place in Nova SciFi, probably in the Fall issue I'm told. David Gerrold is still stuck, as far as I know, in his War Against the Chtorr series because he tried for first person psychotic. It has been 17 years. Lotsa promises. All hat no cattle. I attempted a hallucinating protagonist, shelved it for a year, and rewrote in cold third, strong narrator. Only way not to daze the reader. You can only ask so much.

It came out of a rather anti-idyllic start to my college sophomore year, in the Mesozoic, when the best editing tool available was corasable paper, plumbers did more than fix pipes, and women traded secrets about better back alleys. One sophomore drank himself to death and was discovered by the smell. Another lost her battle for normalcy, succumbing to schizophrenia.

I imagined her life after dropping out and wondered if her disease might, under the right circumstances, be beneficial. What if her past were wiped out in an EMP, she walked out of the institution where she had been committed, and tried to help with the war effort? And the attackers were mind control aliens?

Redirects

Ray Gun Revival is going to be revived, hopefully.
There is a change of status.
Read more about it here.

So, two of my stories will live on only on the scribd site. The RGR website will go down soon. The affected stories are:

The Third Shadoc War
and
Bff.jov

Click to read them on scibd. I must not have progressed too much, because I still think they're fun. Not embarrassed by them yet.

Mandala is Up

Follow the Link:
Mandala
Enjoy
Scott

Mandala sold

A Fly in Amber

VERY happy about this one. First Novelette. I really love this story, as immodest as that sounds. Sometimes characters become so alive that it doesn't really seem that you own them any more. The bird flies from the nest where it will. Is it a first contact story, a love story, a road story? Echoes of the Odyssey, Jungian psychology and of Niven's World out of Time. If you've never been on a New England winter sleighride, sung Palestrina, or walked a labyrinth, you can. Out in May. Link when I get it.

Maid Marion sold

First flash sale. First sale at semi-pro rates (due to brevity, not big bucks). 52 stitches
http://52stitches.blogspot.com/
First flash pub. First horror pub.
I'll post a link when it's up.

Fourth Story Published: Eleven to Seven

Joy.
Eleven to Seven is published.
http://www.sonar4mag.com/
Summer 2009 issue.

Sonar 4 Mag is closing. The July issue will be the next to last. It is a print/download mag that you have to pay for, so kein wunder.

Fortunately, Eleven to Seven is in the Summer issue, soon to be released, and certain to be a collector's item.
Har.