Ancient Logic

September was a busy month for me. Back to school. Two collections including my stories. A great number of stories to pore through in under thirty days. I am including my favorite stories out of the Bundoran Anthology, Second Contacts, that includes my story “This Beautiful Creature.” I’ll probably do something similar next month with the Game Fiction Volume 1. I think both collections contained some killer stories and it’s my pleasure to talk up them and their authors. Okay, on to the picks for September 2015: The Oiran’s Song by Isabel Yap (Uncanny Magazine) A beautiful and terrible meditation on war and the thirst for violence and death. An oni daughter infiltrates an Imperial Japanese army unit and begins to feed upon them. Her tent mate is a boy neutered by his anguish and loss, slowly sliding into being an accomplice. The Peace of Worlds by Jaime Babb (Second contacts) So everyone knows what happened when the Martians invaded before. For all of their overwhelming f...

Apparently Michael Rimar and Hayden Treholm put together a series of short teaser videos for the stories in Bundoran's "Second Contacts" anthology. Here's the one for mine, "This Beautiful Creature:" The more I look at this picture the closer it looks to what I was aiming for in describing the Ghost Monkeys of the story.