Headstones And Monuments By Steve Ogden

I wanted to share this wonderful project by my friend Steve Ogden. It's a compelling new collection of stories and art. Really hoping to see a print version!

I'll let Steve explain it:

"In August of 2011, I got it into my head to create a collection of thirty-one very short stories for fall, full of the smell of pumpkins and fallen leaves. These would be so short — around 1000 words each — that I could bang each one out in an evening. The plan was to write one story per day for the month of August, and release it just in time for the Halloween season. I would call it “Thirty-One for October”, and I intended it to be read at the rate of one story per day for the thirty-one days of October, with a fire in the hearth and a nice drink close at hand.

Unfortunately, I found I have no talent for microfiction, and I began to get frustrated. There were things I wanted to do with these stories, places I wanted to take them, things I wanted the reader to know about these characters and their histories that I couldn’t accomplish in 1000 words.
So the tales grew in the telling. What started off simple became nuanced and textured. Instead of thirty-one tiny stories, I wound up with 2 short poems and 5 stories that were much longer than I’d originally intended. In fact, the longest of these, “Visited upon the Sons”, is almost long enough for a book of its own. In the end, this book took me a year longer to create than I had planned, but when I was done, there was a lot more to read. I hope it’s more of a good thing"