Writer of Kidlit & Weird Stuff
I'm so happy to have a little flash piece in this latest anthology from David Lee Summers' excellent Hadrosaur Productions. Originally published in Daily Science Fiction, "An Averted Tragedy" was partly inspired by a book entitled Form and Meaning in Drama: A Study of Six Greek Plays and of Hamlet by H. D. F. Kitto.
My story was partly the subject of an illuminating coversation I had with my daughter not long ago. The conversation went something like this: "Dad, you should check out this fan fiction." "I'm really not into fan fiction." "But you write fan fiction." "Yeah, I've never written fan fiction in my life." "What was your last story ["An Averted Tragedy"] about?" "It's the story of what happens when Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles' Ajax swap lives." "What are you working on now?" "A multiverse traveler kidnaps Odysseus, Gawain, Antigone, and Grendel, then--" "You write fan fiction." And then she dropped a microphone or something, not sure what that was all about... Anyhoo, Exchange Students is in print and ebook formats on Amazon and at Smashwords: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1885093896 https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1005851
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So I'm finally on the interwebs... sort of. I'll make sporadic posts here, but I'm planning to spend most of my time on twitter--that is, whenever I get around to making a twitter page.
I'd planned on getting a website up and running last year, but my plans had to be put on hold: after ten years of dialysis, I finally got the call to receive a kidney transplant at the end of last August. Surgery went well, all my numbers looked good, and I went home after a five day hospital stay. At home, I spent the entire month of September stuck in a room recovering from surgery, with nothing to do but eat and sleep. And write. And man did I write. I probably wrote and submitted more pieces during that one September than I had in the previous two years. I was in pain... but I was on fire! I just wish I could find some way to be "in the zone" for such extended periods without having to get major surgery. |
AboutHi, I'm Brian. I write children's and speculative works. I live in the greater Seattle area with my wife, two kids, and a demon cat named Pharaoh. Archives
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