Today only, get Pieces and Fifteen Other Stories as a free PDF download, plus the three-story collection Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny. Click the cover image to download.

Pieces and fifteen other stories
The sixteen stories in this collection explore the ways we build our sense of self out of our relationships to memory, history, and the people around us. They recognize our frailties, and are generous with our dreams. From estate sales to birthday parties, from skyscrapers’ roofs to cubicle farms, the characters in these stories grapple with the disappointments and exultations of the modern world.

Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
Three tales that are neither fish nor fowl, about beings that live in an interstitial space. Published in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Cherry Bleeds, JMWW, and the Pseudopod podcast, these tales in the New Fabulist mode explore uncanny and uncomfortable transitions.

Free-e-day, which I discovered through the bookishgal web site, is a web-wide project billed as “The World’s biggest celebration of Indie Culture.” It’s a chance to sample for free the cultural contributions of people who are making things–stories, music, art, design–for the love of creation.

I don’t know as I’m “indie” or just unsuccessful, but rest assured that I do what I do–write short stories and take black-and-white photographs–because I love to do it, not because I have dreams of fame and fortune. Working in relatively unpopular and specialized forms gives me the freedom to do what I want with my creative efforts: we all know that publishers hate short story collections, and no one does film photography in this digital age, so I’m in no danger of having my “vision,” such as it is, compromised by the “marketplace.”

I do hope that you download and enjoy these collections; feel free to leave a comment here, or anywhere else on this site, with your thoughts. There’s more information about getting a Kindle, e-reader, or printed version of Pieces here.