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Squirrel Play Between the Sheets

 There'll be more The Space between Atoms shortly.  I promise.  I thought I'd stop to point out a new story publication—we struggling writers need a bit of encouragement every now and again! My weird, perhaps unnerving tale "Between the Sheets" is now live on Yellow Mama .  This story is about what happens when the unexplained comes home to stay.  I'm willing to admit, as most honest people are, that strange things do happen in life.  Often we can find an explanation.  Sometimes we can't. I suspect that's why I like speculative fiction so much.  There's a sense of wonder to it.  As a friend of mine who's a published novelist likes to say, stories need a flux capacitor.  It's a reference to Back to the Future .  It's how Doc's time machine works.  It's never explained because it can't be, but without it there's no story. Some day I may grow brave enough to publish nonfiction about the strange things I've noted in my life...

A Couple More

  It looks like there may be a little more space between the atoms since I have a bit of news to share this week.   My story “Planet Heaven” has appeared in Sein und Werden —check it out.   This is an irreverent tale that I wrote years ago.   It was rejected for making fun of religion, but I know whereof I speak. Right on the heels of this happy appearance came the news that my tale “Between the Sheets” has been accepted by Yellow Mama for its Valentine issue.   Love and horror often go together, but this is very gentle horror.   Unsettling rather than terrifying. “Planet Heaven,” however, came from my somewhat common experience of being raised religious only to wonder about those who’d been raised in other religions.   Why were they damned to hell just for being born elsewhere?   Why couldn’t true believers just sit down together and talk about it? The story, although set in space, isn’t really science fiction.   I grew up reading sci fi, an...