Ninth Letter & Spork

- My contributor copies of Ninth Letter arrived today and for that I am very happy. As always, the design and the content come together to make something, magically and wonderfully, greater than its parts. Not that each part alone is not already great, but... together, wow. You can see a sneak peak of my story "Water Festival" over at the Ninth Letter blog. The story is a fictional account (sort of) of the 1993 airshow crash at the Stockholm Water Festival. Anyway, the whole issue looks fantastic (news print! Fancy artwork! A Subliminal History of New York State in music!!! A pink poetry insert!) The whole thing is really something else. Thanks to Jodee Stanley and the rest of the staff at Ninth Letter!

- Spork has been kind enough to publish another story of mine, this one from THE WINTER WAR like "Water Festival." It's called "Henrik Brandt Needed Help."

Here's the first part of it:

From the bottom of a shallow gully, Henrik Brandt needed help. From inside his car at the bottom of the shallow gully beside the southbound lane of E18, Henrik Brandt needed help. From where he was seatbelted to the leather driver’s seat of his upside down Volvo V70, Henrik Brandt needed help.