Just a quick update on Sybil’s Garage this afternoon.  Here are the stats so far: We have received 293 stories, 46 poems We have rejected 180 stories, 20 poems Average response time: 9 days for stories, 12 days for poems I have also received informal word that two poems from Sybil’s have been nominated for Rhysling Awards.  As to which poems, I’m trying to find out. A little behind on slush, but I hope to catch up a little today and this evening.

We were talking at KGB last night about the resurgence of one of mankind’s most lamentable of facial fashions: the mustache.  Somewhere, mixed up in the current twenty-something culture of overwrought irony, someone thought it cute to bring back the 1970s porno ‘stache.  Others, seeing hipster culture as a barometer of what will soon trickle into the mainstream concept of cool began letting their hair grow on their upper lip. Not just a brown dusting of shadow, but a fully grown, almost twirly at the edges ‘stache, this seen as hip …

I have been watching the British TV show, Being Human, am all caught up, and, well, I’m downright angry that they basically destroyed a fabulous show with some downright shitty writing. [WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW] Consider the following: George falls in love with a woman named Nina who is a smart-aleck, funny, perky little woman who he then subsequently accidentally turns into a werewolf like him.  Whoops.  This devastates him completely.  So then what does he do in the final two episodes of the second season?  He moves in with his rebound …

Tangent Online finally reviewed Electric Velocipede 17/18, of which my story, “The Spaces Between Things,” appears.  They say: ““The Spaces Between Things” by Matthew Kressel is a touching near future story about a war between East and West in which the East has somehow acquired the ability to send messages through time which appear as metaphors in the protagonist’s present. A series of flashbacks intersperse with the protagonist’s present dilemma, revealing his personal story of love, coming of age, and the invisible connections between people. He reflects on these bits of …

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present: Peter Straub, the multi award winning writer of such novels as Ghost Story, Koko, Mr X, and In the Night Room. His most recent novel is A Dark Matter, published by Doubleday this month. He is also the editor the recent Library of America American Fantastic Tales & Daryl Gregory, whose first novel, Pandemonium, won the 2009 Crawford Award and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. His second novel, The Devil’s Alphabet, was recently named a finalist for …