New Splatterlands Review Appears in Splatter Caf��; Second First Sundays Prose Reading

“Art: that which is raised to more than ordinary importance; that which, even if temporary, is forever after etched in the collective being of man.” ~James S. Dorr

The next story is “THE ARTIST ��� by James S. Dorr.�� This brilliantly written tale is about a man who loves his art and his wife, but his wife, unable to comprehend the beauty of art starts to drift away and into another man’s arms. . . .�� (SPLATTER CAF��)

Editor (with Sharon Lawson) Anthony Rivera has posted a second review of the 2013 anthology SPLATTERLANDS (cf. January 28, et al.) in the last five days, noting of this one from SPLATTER CAF��, ���[w]e freely admit that the work in SPLATTERLANDS is not for everyone, but it is for those who appreciate their horror extreme yet still intelligent and with (*gasp*) a PLOT!�� (And if that type of horror isn’t for you, we have plenty more volumes that are.) Apparently, this is exactly the type of horror that Splatter Cafe is looking for.�� ;-)

���Splatter Cafe:�� ���[Splatterpunk], the beast of revolutionary horror, has definitely been reawakened and it’s ready to ravage your psyche long after the last words have been consumed.�� [The] Bram Stoker Award-nominated editors at Grey Matter Press have created something special with this anthology.�� SPLATTERLANDS: REAWAKENING THE SPLATTERPUNK REVOLUTION is 13 deliciously horrific stories of serial murder, vengeance, religious fanaticism, sexual assault and so much more.�� SPLATTERLANDS will tear into your flesh, shredding chunks of your own morality, leaving you bloodied, violated and dismembered.���

���Splatter Cafe pays special tribute to illustrator Luke Spooner of Carrion House and authors Jack Maddox, Christine Morgan, Ray Garton, James Dorr, and J Michael Major. . . .���

And so, for a Super Sunday brag (to be read as one will) I���ve already quoted above part of what SPLATTER CAF�� reviewer L. D. Johnson says about . . . moi.�� And there is a bit more, as well as a lot of perceptive words about SPLATTERLANDS and publisher Grey Matter Press in general, which all can be found here.

I read this review at the public library less than an hour before 2015���s second Bloomington Writers Guild sponsored First Sunday Prose Reading at Boxcar Books, just a block east.�� The featured readers for February were Stephanie Haines who read humorous essays from a newspaper column she writes on topics such as dating at 40, ice cream, cheapskates, and Jane Austen, followed by Communications and Culture PhD student Eric Zobel who, with the assistance of three other readers, presented ���Adventures in Indifference,��� described as ���a prose piece for multiple voices.���

This was also the second in which a few open mike readers were allowed more time than the ���standard��� three to five minutes (cf. last month, January 5).�� I took advantage by reading a personal favorite of mine, ���Casket Girls,��� originally published in DAILY SCIENCE FICTION last April.�� If interested, those who haven���t read it (or wish a refresher) can go to the DAILY SF site and enter ���Dorr��� in the search box on the right for it and, at present, three more stories (with a fifth, ���Dead Lines,��� to come, probably this spring) that I���ve had there.