"The Ferry Back" available through Collateral Journal

Issue 2.1 went live today over at Collateral Journal and my flash story, "The Ferry Back," is available for reading!

I wrote this story years ago as a part of a writing challenge. The professor of my last graduate class plopped a bag of odds and ends on the table in front of us, gave a moment to choose an item before giving us twenty minutes to write something about it.

The object described in this story, a small white patch of the Niagara Ferry, somehow seemed from the same era as the Vietnam war. The resulting story, while having very little connection to any actual event in my life, nevertheless feels like a summation of a certain portion of my childhood. Growing up I always had this sense what my father and my grandfather experienced in the wars they fought were still very much happening. Like these conflicts never really ended but went on and on and on.

This story deserved a great home and I'm pleased to see it offered along side the other tremendous stories on this site.

Thank you Abby Murray for choosing this story!

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Also under the heading of awesome news, Gehenna and Hinnom's "Transhuman SF" is now available for pre-orders! This anthology contains my story "Machinery of Ghosts," which I'm dying to tell you about in more detail. Expect a "Author's Comments" post in the very near future where I lay out some of the inspirations and development notes for that story.

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