Marcie and Sisters, and Rabbit Hole VI Arrived!
It came to my finally ordering one, an author’s copy not forthcoming (not all contracts offer one in print, but it is a nice thing and much appreciated — at least by me), but then the whole story was kind of based on illusion, wasn’t it? The story, “Marcie and Her Sisters,” originally published in REEL DARK (BlackWyrm Publishing, 2015). And now reprinted.
This is the blurb, via Amazon: “Life is a journey, not a destination.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Emerson’s point has been echoed by many, but in the Land of the Weird the question arises, “A journey to what destination?” At the same time, you might ask, “Is the journey therefore the destination?” The journey may well be an individual’s destination, because it will define them physically, emotionally, and spiritually. And in the Land of the Weird, that journey can take twists and turns that amuse, sadden, or horrify.
This trip into the Land of the Weird offers you 39 unique trails to follow, assisted by 35 different guides, each leading you down their own singular paths, manifesting their own view of journey as destination, some laughing, some weeping, and some, eyes wide with fear, shaking as they point out the spectral footpath for you to follow on your way down The Rabbit Hole.
And the book: THE RABBIT HOLE, VOL VI (cf. November 7, October 25, et al.) — or THE RABBIT HOLE WEIRD STORIES DESTINATION: JOURNEY, as Amazon lists it — edited by Tom Wolosz, and publisher The Writers Co-op. It was released in a will-o’-the-wisp way, as befits Halloween, on October 31 2023 but the problem then was to actually get it. This is the way I had put it November 7: The book can be found, in some places and some forms: on Amazon it can be bought in e-form . . . [w]hile for paper copies it’s presently “out of stock” — which I understand to mean not yet in stock. But should be coming soon.
So, long story short (and other things going on anyhow), I gave it the rest of the year to settle down, then re-tried Amazon on January 2 and . . . actually bought it! On January 4 I received an email that it had shipped, but the gremlins weren’t done yet. A second email on the day it had been supposed to arrive cited a “shipping delay,” and new expected arrival date of January 15. And today (the 16th) it’s finally here!
And so of my story, as mentioned above (of the subtitled “Journey,” and quoting myself again): “Marcie and Her Sisters” decide one day they might marry zombies — or do they? In any event, the journey (ah, now!) is not one wholly filled with flowers and butterflies. Oh, no! Nor is the narrator entirely reliable. . . . In THE RABBIT HOLE VI in front of me now, then, I’m hoping for the kind of surreality of my own book, AVOID SEEING A MOUSE. But will it be there?
Supply problems presumably over by now, one can check for oneself by pressing here.
