I creep along the edge of his tenement hallway. Muted explosions from outside, bombs maybe. Motes of dust float in the manufactured light. When the act of remembering becomes illegal, the artifacts that remain tell the stories our unconscious wants to submerge. ‘Pugs’ originally published in Colored Chalk, Issue #5. ‘The Mourning is the Dawn of our Love’ originally published in Gold Dust, Issue #14. ‘List #2’ originally published in Everyday Genius. ‘The Reindeer Incident’ originally published on Do Some Damage. ‘Cobwebs and Dead Skin’ is an excerpt of the novella By the Nails of the Warpriest (OW Press, September 2011) and was originally published in Dirty Noir. Thank you to all of the editors for believing in them (or letting me dupe them into believing.) Thank you to you, for reading this collection. There’s also an excerpt of the upcoming novella that spawned all of these giveaways. None have explicit connections to Old Ghosts, but feel like they should. I like them all and wanted to give them a chance to be seen, to be read. Some are from very early in my writing, and though I’d approach them differently now, I think it’s important to see progression. Some of these stories were published long ago (relatively speaking) and some in publications that evaporated into smoke.
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