Drop what you’re doing right now and go read “Small Burdens” by Paul M. Berger, now up at Strange Horizons.  Granted, Paul is a friend of mine, and he’s in my writers group.  But had that not been the case I’d still be recommending this uber creepy and subtly told tale of faerie and cradle robbing.

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 …