The Future Fire

Writing is a career of long, long plateaus where there is only the work, punctuated by the flurry of peaks and valleys that come when the work goes out into the world. And every now and then you get a peak …

I’m not saying this right.

When I started writing again, this time, Djibril al-Ayad was one of the first people I crossed paths with online, and The Future Fire was one of the first publications that made me hopeful that this genre scene (as opposed to the one I left circa 1990) was in fa...