New story: "Hank Eltz, the Singer"
New story: "Hank Eltz, the Singer"
Hi there and welcome to the new newsletter, or rather the old newsletter in a new place.
Still getting to grips with buttondown and so I thought I'd take this opportunity to test it out and plug my new story (that way, if i screw something up it's no big loss, just a crummy self-promo post gone wrong).
Anyway, my story "Hank Eltz, the Singer" is now live in issue #4 of the journal God's Cruel Joke.
It starts like so:
Hank Eltz is a pop singer. Prior to that, he worked as a serial killer. The biggest in the biz, at one point. Nineteen victims, all in broad daylight. The Daylight Strangler, they called him. The news sites ate it up. Slot named him Best Serial Killer three years in a row. But that life is long behind him now. These days Hank deploys a sort of deadpan talking-blues patter over slow, watery-sounding beats. Like the baritone monologue that comes midway-through a 50s doo-wop ballad, and only that part, over and over.
It's a weirdly autobiographical story and one I'm very proud of. I've already got started reading the rest of the issue and there's some crazy shit in here. Get the digital version online, or maybe splurge on the print(!) version. You do you.
Writing-wise for me, it's been an exciting 2024 so far and there's at least a couple more exciting things coming up. In the meantime, all my monthly short story recommendation and assorted this-and-that will be here in its new home. See you around!