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Best couple of stories I’ve read lately

“J.J. FTW” at Yale Review “Greased Lightning” at Pidgeonholes Well, I mean, aside from pretty much ever story in Cat Valente’s The Future is Blue. Especially and forever “Planet Lion.” That story’s right up there with Peter Watts’ “The Things,” for me. 

Cold Pursuit

Now THIS is the kind of research I can get behind. Well done, whoever:

PSA

My name is Stephen Graham Jones, and I support this tweet:

Litsy and ZBO

This may be my favorite of all the Zombie Bake-Off Reviews. It’s my favorite from eight years after it came out, for sure:

Four years, man

Doesn’t feel like it. To me these stories are stil churning in my head. Thanks, Richard. 

Goats and Crabs

Hey, it’s that runaway goat I was writing about it in “Exodus” (check #5 there, say), lo those many years ago: https://nypost.com/2018/08/09/rogue-goat-may-have-helped-dozens-of-farm-animals-escape/

Name these critters

Because I can’t. I mean, the this one‘s built like a moose, but it’s colored like a paint horse—a shetland, maybe, or a wild horse with a winter coat: It’s definitely not a horse, though. Look at those hind legs. And this one‘s . . . maybe a white raccoon? The legendary ghost coon? Whatever

Old Dreams I Still Have

Living and dying by Magnum PI growing up, I of course fell head over heels for this color scheme: However, helicopters being far from any reality I knew, and trucks being ALL of my reality, I of course, then, wanted a truck with that color scheme, as Ford was doing in the late seventies: Is

a Pre-Shark Week Listicle, with Teeth

Reading David James Keaton anywhere is always a good time, but especially at LitReactor. Cool to have a shark book on this list: https://litreactor.com/columns/the-top-ten-shark-books-that-are-in-my-house-just-in-time-for-shark-week  

The Deer & the Owl

Hey, this tweet got enough hearts that, were it Link, he’d now be functionally immortal. But I guess this is A link, anyway: Never know if you don’t try pic.twitter.com/OIncv7WrqJ — Stephen Graham Jones (@SGJ72) July 21, 2018 Anyway, yes, I subscribe to that philosophy. It’s a big reason I have so many scars, so

Pirates & Pirating

Man, looks like I’m just embedding tweets here all day—I did just wrap an extensive novel rewrite about five minutes ago—but, here’s another one, a good one, an important one: Dear person who decided to upload an e-ARC of THE GIRL IN THE GREEN SILK GOWN to an illegal download site more than a week

Don’t Eat Crazy

Tom Paris, saying aloud the creed I live by, pretty much. And? This is my only persistent problem with intergalactic humans in stories: they always come out of warp at some Mos Eisley of a truckstop and just eat whatever’s being served. I can’t help but think that would be instant death. Not just of

The Silent Game

Clicking through stories for bad links, I refound this one, and, man, it’s got to be the coolest-formatted story I’ve ever had come up on these internets. I wrote this story back in . . . I’d guess about 2001, maybe? Possibly even earlier. Cool it’s still around: And, that’s just a screencap. Click it

Blood Quantum

It’s so jacked up. It’s also—”it” being my tribe’s retention of it—why Mapping the Interior and its kind-of follow-up (to come) never once say “Blackfeet”: because of current policy, I don’t think it’s a big enough term. Anyway, Robert traces through it in a compelling way here, once you click through: I, along with my

The Lineup

Cool list to be on: https://the-line-up.com/underrated-paranormal-books 

Thanks, Gabino

Author appreciation tweets, day 3 of 10: @SGJ72. One of the most versatile writers in the game. A unique, powerful voice and a mellow, humble man who’s a pleasure to talk to. A master of horror, crime, bizarro, and everything in between. Oh, and Mongrels is a masterpiece. pic.twitter.com/VDEZx9n79j — Gabino Iglesias (@Gabino_Iglesias) May 24,

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