In case you were wondering, I’ve started laying out Sybil’s Garage No. 6.  With sixteen stories and thirteen poems, it’s going to be our largest issue to date.  I’ve laid out the stories and poems without art, and the document is already 98 pages long.  With inserted art and call-outs and marginalia, the magazine could easily top 120 pages.  Because of that I might have to charge more than our usual $5 per issue.   But I’ll do my best to keep the cost as low as possible. I use …

I think I learned more from this than two years of college bio.  Green Porno (thanks to Alaya for the link)

Just found this review by Lawrence Conquest of my story, “Saving Diego,” in Interzone.  Lawrence says (mild spoiler warning): “In Matthew Kressel’s ‘Saving Diego’ a former drug dealer travels across the galaxy to help wean his old partner off of an addictive drug that allows communication with god-like aliens. Kressel initially keeps the SF elements deceptively light, immersing the reader in characterisation as the drug-fuelled relationship between the two leads is examined. When the SF elements kick in they only serve to strengthen an already strong story, with the metaphor of …

John Klima has recently posted the cover to the latest issue of Electric Velocipede.  In its pages are Altered Fluid members K. Tempest Bradford, Mercurio D. Rivera, and yours truly.  I think the cover looks really cool!  Thanks to Barbara Krasnoff (also in the issue) for the link.

Here we go again.  The health insurance industry is saying they will “phase out” charging higher premiums for sick people if everyone in America is required to get health insurance.  Don’t be fooled by this “olive branch.”  First, this is something that any moral individual (or company) should have done back when the practice began.  Suddenly, now they have a change of heart?  Don’t be fooled into believing they are doing this out of the generosity of their heart.  Second, this plan will only result in a windfall for insurance …