Monday, February 24, 2014
Your story, Something in Our Minds Will Always Stay, is rich in imagery, and weaves together a lot of narrative threads – the nature of self and memory, the relation of humans to technology and to each other, and that’s just scratching the surface….
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Monday, January 13, 2014
I [editor A.C. Wise] am a sucker for “found” stories. Was there a particular inspiration for Found Items that made you structure it as a series of audio tapes as opposed to a straightforward narrative? I wrote this story maybe eight years ago, sent…
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Monday, January 6, 2014
In addition to being an effective horror story with a post-apocalyptic feel, The New World has an undercurrent of social and historical commentary, particularly as it relates to colonialism and the work done by religious missionaries. Did you set out wanting to write on…
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
The theme of one insect using another as a host for its eggs, or an insect masquerading as human impregnating another human is one that turns up frequently in fiction, but in Pompilid you avoid the common tropes of body horror, holding the impregnation…
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Monday, December 23, 2013
The Wall Garden plays with disturbing imagery, shifts in time, and loops in on itself more than once. Did all that make it harder or easier to write? The image of the creatures trapped in the wall garden is particularly striking. Did the story…
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Unlikely Story