I'm not hiding out...

[Dave (imported)]

In case anyone wondered why I have been quiet and posting much less (like who cares some little voice says in my ear)...

I'm not hiding out. I've been writing my short stories.

I've discovered a publisher who's sole output is anthologies and I've been targeting my stories to those anthologies.

It's more elaborate than a few short stories. In the previous two years, I had five stories and one poem published about two years ago. Last fall, I had 14 short stories out waiting for acceptance or rejection by various ezines, antho's and magazines. I had stories submitted and waiting for answers for nearly a year. Those stores are above and beyond what appear on my website. I write at least one story a month.

In two years since I had my initial publishing burst, I only had two horror stories accepted by a FANTASTIC HORROR (an online ezine). The stories were good enough but the time to wait between acceptances was too long.

Then Static Movement comes along and in one day after submission, I get a story published. A couple weeks later, Pill Hill Press accepts a second story within a week.

So in early January, I started customizing my stories to the anthologies listed at Static Movement. In the past month, I've got five stories accepted in four anthologies. Maybe six. The editors decide in days and not months. And they always reply. Certain journals don't even reply with a rejection anymore. After six months you assume your story wasn't accepted.

So I'm concentrating on writing and not politics.

[Riverwind (imported)]

So do you write just horror stories or what?

River

[Dave (imported)]

More science fiction or what the writers call "speculative fiction" and much of it involves transformations of men into other things - aliens, primates, robots. A bit of it is transgendered and one story was about a man losing his testicles but mostly SciFi and softer horror... I have a hard time with getting really bloody.

I like Satyrs and primates and robots and metal men.

It follows what gives me a cheap thrill. That's not giving most of it enough credit because I try to write a good story first and a scifi gimmick or a tranform second.

It's all on my website.

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

More science fiction or what the writers call "speculative fiction" and much of it involves transformations of men into other things - aliens, primates, robots. A bit of it is transgendered and one story was about a man losing his testicles but mostly SciFi and softer horror... I have a hard time with getting really bloody.

I like Satyrs and primates and robots and metal men.

It follows what gives me a cheap thrill. That's not giving most of it enough credit because I try to write a good story first and a scifi gimmick or a tranform second.

It's all on my website.

Congratulations dave, I'm one of those Sci-Fi junkies

[Dave (imported)]

Thanks very much

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

The hardest Sci-Fi I ever tried to read was Metal Monster by A.A. Merritt. I say hardest because I had to grab my dictionary and look up words I rarely use that were on almost every page.

[Dave (imported)]

I try to make the science serve the plot and characters. The best scifi is still personal relationships.

[Paolo]

Sounds like you're having fun.

Congrat's and keep at it.

[Dave (imported)]

When two astronomers start playing with a quantum freeze device that turns them to stone, what sort of trouble can they get into? Will they survive the coming catastrophic even?

My short story Astronomers on the Beach has been published in COSMIC CATASTROPHES, an anthology

edited by Chris Bartholomew and is now available for purchase at Static Movement's Shop.

http://www.pillhillpress.com/shoppe-sta ... ement.html

What do you do with the crew of a spaceship when you colonize a world? The Twelve Cities Confederation abandons the crew on the planet with the rest of the colonists. What kind of jobs do abandoned astronomers try to find? Would you believe internet videos of stone men in large caverns? Quantum freezing devices! That works for some.

But something is up there, in the sky, falling toward the planet like the sword of Damocles. A meteor will thwart the best laid plans of astronomers and colonists alike.

Will they live or die?

[Dave (imported)]

I got a few more stories published:

Rannoch Abbey and the Night Visitor

On the Vigil of Easter in Rannoch, Scotland in 1155 AD, a flying saucer crashed into the bog near a church and and monks must fight the alien invasion.

Published in MONK PUNK, an anthology edited by AJ French and available at the Static Movement Book Store -

http://www.pillhillpress.com/shoppe-sta ... ement.html

Sasquatch and Cyborg, LLC

One hundred seventy years in the future, a serial killer comes to the Yukon Territory and an alien bounty hunter (a Sasquatch with telepathic fleas) and a human detective (no fleas, no telepathy, just a college degree) must join forces to find the killer before he kills again.

Published in BOUNTY HUNTER

, an anthology edited by Chris Bartholomew.

It is available at Static Movement Book Store -

http://www.pillhillpress.com/shoppe-sta ... ement.html

And the Life of the World to Come

"Et vitam venturi saeculi," a Latin phrase at the end of the profession of faith. But do we believe in "a life in the world to come"? Do we have faith? They believed. They devised a resurrection and then they died in the apocalypse. This is the story of their life and the world to come.

Published in "Adventures in Other Worlds"

an anthology edited by Chris Bartholomew.

Available at Static Movement's Bookstore -

http://www.pillhillpress.com/shoppe-sta ... ement.html

And for slightly more at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Other- ... =1-2-fkmr0

Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum

An ex-marine turned Detective who finds the man he is looking for in a gym, punching a speed bag. But remember, the gateway to hell will not open tonight, not on this detective's watch. An Urban Fantasy.

This story appears in George Wilhite's Anthology "Weird City" available at the Static Movement Store -

http://www.pillhillpress.com/shoppe-sta ... ement.html

And at Amazon for a slightly higher price - http://www.amazon.com/Weird-City-George ... 053&sr=1-1