This is a Thursday night story, though it won’t be posted until the wee hours of Friday morning. It’s been a long, and a strange but productive day. This one begins, however, just under two weeks ago on August 15 when Indianapolis Editor/Publisher James Ward Kirk emailed: I would love to publish one of your stories for INDIANA HORROR REVIEW 2020. He added that, though an anthology of mostly unpublished work, he would be willing to look at a reprint so the next day I emailed back: Thank you for the invitation! The attached, “Eudora,” is a bit on the short side at 1500 words, but I think has substance. It has been published once before in BLOOD TYPE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF VAMPIRE SF ON THE CUTTING EDGE (Nightscape Press, 2013), with reprint rights in my possession. I hope it will be suitable and, either way, will look forward to hearing from you.
And so today (well, yesterday really) the second act, a contract arrived. For reasons oddly having to do with COVID-19 it took a little doing to open but, yes, “Eudora” has found a new home — a bit of a science fiction tale, but mostly of horror, of vampires and disease. Maybe a bit of a fable for our time?* In any event the contract is now signed and an hour or so ago went electronically winging back, with more to be here as it becomes known.
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*E.g., vampirism does not social distance well.
Published on August 27, 2020 22:35