Out now from Filthy Loot, the anthology New Meat In A Clean Room includes my story “I Am A Horse.” Described by editor Ira Rat as the “spiritual sister” to the anthology Bodypunk, my contributions in the two books couldn’t be more different from each other.
Or maybe not. Both stories are about characters unable to escape the hauntings of their personal histories. (I suppose that might be true of everything I write.) While Bodypunks’s “And At Night, The Sirens” is an emotionally unhinged vomiterotica-slash-giallo frenzy, my New Meat In A Clean Room story is much more placid. Much more cold.
“I Am A Horse” opens with a Butoh dance. As a mathematics professor develops an awkward obsession with the primary dancer, he discovers-or tries to discover-who she really is. The puzzle pieces don’t add up to a logical solution. And yet the ending, I hope you’ll agree, makes perfect sense.
Read “I Am A Horse” in New Meat In A Clean Room from Filthy Loot.
Reminder that The Retirement Home for Psychic Detectives just came out in Southwest Review’s horror issue. BR Yeager guest edited, assembling a table of contents that includes Elle Nash, Max Restaino, Gary J. Shipley, and Porpentine, to name just a few. It’s what the kids call stacked. I’m very partial to my story as I continue to investigate an imaginary genre I conceive of as anti-detective fiction.
And another reminder: Death, With Sequelae is a story/prose poem exclusively available as a signed broadside from From Beyond Press. It’s limited to 100, so don’t wait too long to order if you’re interested.
I usually end these updates thanking you for reading, but somehow that simple “thanks” seems so inadequate after basking in praise at Voidcon 3 last weekend, and then realizing that by the end of 2025 I’ll have had about 20 stories published this year. I’m honored that my work has been given so much space. I’m grateful. It’s a huge feeling. I simply can’t thank you enough.
So as always, thank you for reading. Thank you so fucking much.
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