It’s best not to play favorites with your stories, but I’ll admit it. This one’s a favorite.
I really love the formal experimentation of this story, and how I was thinking and feeling when I built it. It’s the centerpiece for an idea I’ve been working with for a few years, both a distillation and expansion of themes. Writing The Power Company Detective was that rare culmination of practice and effort when you reach a moment when you’ve done exactly what you wanted to with your art.
It’s not a happy story, but it’s a very true one as far as fiction goes. I hope you’ll love it as much as I do.
Read The Power Company Detective in Seize the Press, Issue 12.
Also, I recently had the pleasure of being invited to speak with Joe Bielecki on his show Writing The Rapids. He’s an exceptionally thoughtful host and reader, and I only wish I were a better conversationalist. I’ve had some medical issues that make speaking difficult at times, which doesn’t help matters very much! Despite my shortcomings, I’m grateful for the chance to ramble a bit and I was pretty amazed with Joe’s evaluation of my work.
Listen to Slippery Ontology With Joe Koch on Writing The Rapids. The show includes a lengthy interview and ends with my reading of my story “Beloved Of Flies.”
Last, here’s a head’s up that SLAKE HOUSE will only be available through July 1st!
SLAKE HOUSE is a queer erotic horror choose-your-own-ending (CYOE) anthology featuring 13 author/artist pairs collaborating to create a sexy and horrifying multi-route story which will end in spectacular climax and abject terror.
It includes my contribution “I Name This River After You,” which is one of the final “doors” to go through if you can find your way there. Good luck!
Download here:
https://papriqa.itch.io/slake-house
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