I recently received my contributor copy of the Hatter Bones anthology, edited by Paul Jessup.  Chock full of creepy, cutting edge fiction, I devoured the book in two days. Paul Jessup asked, in his guidelines, for “contemporary, strange, broken things” and “stories made from bird bones, broken bits, cobbled together out of things spoken in the rain.”  What resulted from that prompt was my short story, “The Girl in the Basement,” told in brief vignettes about a girl who spends her life locked in a basement by her parents.  It is …

Not one, but two Sybil’s Garage reviews were posted yesterday.  The first was from Cat Rambo at Fantasy Magazine.  She says: “Ever since first discovering the magazine Sybil’s Garage in 2005 after being shown it by Kris Dikeman, I’ve loved the small press magazine produced by Matt Kressel of Senses Five Press. The magazine’s steady climb in quality moves to upward from an already pretty high starting point, and this issue shows the trend continuing.” You can read the full review here. The second review came just minutes later from Charles Tan at …

I had set three alarms.  Two on my clock radio which I’ve had since college, and one on my iPhone.  Of course, I was up at before all of them.  It was 2:45 am, and I was on my way to Jim Freund’s radio show, “Hour of the Wolf.”  Still Friday night/early Saturday morning, the noise from the evening (I happen to live close to several bars) had just faded only an hour or two before.  I showered and swallowed a cup of coffee when normally I’d be delta-deep in …

Altered Fluid will be appearing this Saturday on Jim Freund’s radio show “Hour of the Wolf.” We will be critiquing a story by Rajan Khanna live on the air. The program airs from 5-7am on WBAI, 99.5 FM in the NY Metro area, or can be heard live and after the show anywhere in the world at http://stream.wbai.org. Here’s a link to the Facebook Event. You can read about our previous on-air hijinks here.

In the introduction to Mercurio D. Rivera’s “The Fifth Zhi” on Escape Pod, editor Stephen Eley says, “Sybil’s Garage [is] one of the best run and downright prettiest of the small press magazines…”  Coming from the editor of one of the most successfull SF podcast magazine (and arguably with the largest listenership), that’s high praise.