Quick Plug: The Story Hour
Hi! I’m late with this month’s newsletter, but I wanted to pop up a moment to let you know I’ll be doing a reading of Blanquitos. Join us on this very...
2026: The Year That Was
Apologies for cribbing from 30 Rock, but what a year it’s been - and here I am, writing at the beginning of February, on the other side of a brief government...
Here It Comes
What a year it’s been. Looking back at my post-election entry, there was a lot of pessimism in what to expect. Some of it bang-on, some of it caught up in...
New Story - Blanquitos
My most recent story, Blanquitos, is out today in Typebar Magazine. It’s one of the TropiWeirdest of my stories yet, and I’d be honored if you read it....
The (Tropi)Weird
Over the course of the last few years, I’ve wandered from the more typical genre stuff to develop a series of stories that began with my short story, How...
Shutdown Chronicles, Continued
It’s been a month-plus and I’m still furloughed as the federal government’s shutdown continues. I don’t have much else to say about this, other than rumors...
Shutdown
So, the US government’s shut down. Again. Since I’m considered non-essential, this means that while I don’t get paid until Congress votes to fund the...
The Lateness of the Hour
As promised, I’m finally FINALLY getting around to posting my review for Kyle Winkler’s Enter the Peerless (sorry, Kyle!). I’d meant to get to it much...
Gone Fishin'
I was planning to get this newsletter out earlier, but as it turns out - I REALLY needed time to unwind over vacation. Hell, I was sure I’d do so much...
Slow, Slow, Slow, Late
So, I skipped a month, but let me tell you - WHAT a month that was. I’d just begun adjusting to having to suddenly be back in the office (after nearly 5...
Living In the Exception
A while back, my wife pointed a thread out to me by someone who had become disabled as a result of repeat COVID infections. I wish I’d saved it so I could...
I've Got a Message and You're Not Going to Like It
So, it’s begun. I’ve activated payments (pay what you want/can; upgrading triggers no charge) on the newsletter in advance of the possible, perhaps...
Storytelling and The Price
I was tempted to push this back again due to non-stop barrage of current events. Despite the uncertainty hanging like a pall over everything, I’m going to...
Interlude: Happy New Year!
Hello all the way from the last hours of 2024. I keep needing to remind myself that despite not having anything published this year (alas!) that I...
End of the Year Blues
In the last few years, I tended to get a bit somber as the year winds down. Looking back at what I’d gotten published that year, and worry about awards...
The Road Goes Ever On
I’ve spent all day quiet, subdued. I don’t have much to say about it all. I don’t have many answers except that we should look out for and take care of each...
Capclave 2024
Capclave is a small regional convention held in Rockville, Maryland that I’ve attended every year since 2015. Its ostensible focus is short fiction (it’s...
Lines in the Dirt
Jeanine Cummins, author of American Dirt has another book coming out. This one is about how a hurricane affects a Puerto Rican family. While I had a grim...
Changing Goals Is Okay
I had this whole thing written out about how often we are convinced we should pursue something because it’s someone else’s goal. How the horror of - as it’s...
Where the Fiction Happens
When I was still living in Puerto Rico, I worked at a call center for GE Money (before the financial crisis almost nuked it from orbit). There was an...