and another story…

Another story announcement — I wasn’t sure when this one would be out, but it looks like November. Mechanical Animals, edited by Selena Chambers and Jason Heller, will include my story “Closer to the Sky.” It’s now available for preorder. Just follow the link.

This is a story about a girl and her horse. Given how much time I’ve spent with horses in my life, I don’t write about them very much. I’m not sure why. When my horse Rosie started getting sick I wrote several rather horrific stories about terrible things happening to horses (I was processing) — “The Librarian’s Daughter,” “A Hunter’s Ode to His Bait.”  “The Librarian’s Daughter” is ostensibly about a girl and her horse except it’s, you know, horrific.

But I actually consider “Closer to the Sky” my first real “girl and her horse” story.  It’s also a weird western.

So yeah, stories that I’ve sold over the last three years are now coming out all in the same handful of months. Weird!