I am very happy to say that my story, “Second Hand,” is currently up to read, for free, at Lightspeed Magazine. This is my first appearance as an author at Lightspeed (I’ve narrated and edited podcasts for them before) and it’s a market I’ve long wanted to appear in. “Second Hand” is a weird western and a sequel of sorts to my story, “Card Sharp,” which appeared in the anthology The Way of the Wizard. “Card Sharp” isn’t available to read online at the moment but the story was podcast over at Podcastle if you’d like to get the full story so far.

“Second Hand” also appears in the anthology, Dead Man’s Hand, which also releases today. It’s an anthology full of weird western tales featuring authors like Tad Williams, Joe R. Lansdale, Ken Liu, Jeffrey Ford, and Christie Yant. Here’s the full Table of Contents. You can also find a list of free reads from the anthology (and related tales) here.

Sound interesting? Why not buy the book?

I owe myself a post about the new year (and looking back on the last year) but before I do that, I need to mention that my story, “The Last Gorgon”, is currently up and available to read on Beneath Ceaseless Skies. I’ve been a fan of BCS since it started and it has long been a market I’ve wanted to crack. I’m very proud to have a story up there now. This was also the story I read at the World Fantasy Convention last year in San Diego. While several of my stories draw on my long time love of Greek mythology, none as much as this one. It’s a great start to the year.

I got word late last night that my story, “Holes” (formerly “The Burning Bridge to Heaven”), is now online in the latest issue of Abyss & Apex. I wrote “Holes” a while ago, and it’s nice to see it finally seeing “print”.

This comes as I’ve just begun contemplating another story of Damon Hawking and Julia Sinclair in the Unusual Circumstances division of MI5.

If you take a look, let me know what you think.