Alien Buddha Fills Fast, 1st “Preview” Received

The call had been for love poetry and stories, with a deadline set for November 1. The anthology: THE ALIEN BUDDHA LOVES YOU (cf. August 8), to be published by Alien Buddha Press.

The call: [P]oetry, prose, flash fiction memoir and art that capture the essence of these themes:
Chapter One: The Alien Buddha Loves You (on the theme of love and all its nuances)
Chapter Two: The Alien Buddha doesn’t love you anymore (breakup stories)
Chapter Three The Alien Buddha Loves you after dark (just keep it publishable, Red says). So I sent them a “Tombs” story, set in the after dark milieu of TOMBS: A CHRONICLE OF LATTER-DAY TIMES OF EARTH even if not in the novel itself (and as Alien Buddha seems to have decided, just dark-dark, not steamy-dark, ending it up in chapter 1, even if the tale’s love has been broken up by death as well — so go figure), “Crow and Rat,” originally published in the UK by Eibonvale Press in 2018 (see March 21, 18, January 13 2019, et al.), of two beggars in the slums of the New City, the lowest of the low, but whose love — at least of one — reached far, far higher.

And so, today, from Editor “Red” the attachment plus email: Here is the first preview of “The Alien Buddha Loves You”.

If you have any edits to request, please let me know sometime in the next couple days.

Or in other words, the Buddha’s LOVES seems to have filled up fast (including poems by two other Writers Guild members — at least that I spotted right off the bat). And, my “okay” having gone back this evening, more to be here as it becomes revealed.