Issue # 52 of Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction is finally upon the world, stretching its thews and tonguing its chops, eyeballs swiveling for signs of prey … And guess what? My very own story is tattooed in its flesh! That’s right, you can read my story on the skin of a genuine, bone-fide Satisfaction-Guaranteed-Or-Your-Money-Back MONSTER!!!

Okay, not so much a monster, per se, as a rather cute and non-ostentatious lit mag out of the UK that is featuring my story “Rocking Horse Traffic” … a story, like so many of my stories, of which I am inordinately fond and swooning with pleasure and pride at its first flight. TQF is available for free in pdf, mobi, and epub formats. If you don’t mind parting from a small satchel of lucre, you can purchase a paperback version or a Kindle version.

Tickling me delightfully about my appearance in these pages: Douglas J. Ogurek, whose brilliant fiction I was extremely proud to publish (twice) during my editing stint at Gone Lawn, is the staff film reviewer at Theaker’s, and so our work nestles happily together within the same volume!

(Doesn’t really matter, I suppose, but I, aw shucks, always get a bit naturally bubbly when my work appears alongside my ol’ Gone Lawn playmates.)

Also:

Never too busy to make a wrong turn when necessary!

For example, my most recent wrong turn delivered me here.

And that is only the van! Throbbing throngs in hot pursuit! An invading army of pronunciations swarming down your ear canals!

She calls her voice her purr. Yes yes yes.

I won’t be drawn into podcasts, however. Will not. Not not not.