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Friday, July 28, 2006
Much Ado About Nothing
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Reeling In The Years...
Why is there a counter in the header of this blog keeping track of how long it is until I turn fifty?
I have goals. Some are arbitrarily tied to milestones in my life, such as attaining the age of...fifty. My late father took pleasure in recalling how my grandmother sobbed when he greeted her on the morning of her fiftieth birthday with a chipper "Happy half-a-century, Mother!" I returned the favor in December 1984: I gave Dad fifty silver half-dollars and a burn permit signed by the city's fire chief, giving my father the right to light all fifty candles on his birthday cake.
The funny thing about middle age is that you feel just like you did when you were seventeen. Oh, there are physical limitations and you know a lot more stuff. I wouldn't trade my insights or ability to process knowledge for all the tea in China. It's a wonderful thing to perceive yourself as still being young at heart, but it's deceptive in a way because it fools you into thinking you have forever to get things done. 
I believe I have forever to get things done -- maybe not in this life, on this world, but somewhere. However, there are things I want to get done in this life, on this world. And that watch keeps ticking.
Each of us are reeling in the years, as Steely Dan sang, stowin' away the time. Many phrases from the song Reeling In The Years ring true. They remind me I have meaningful goals hanging over my head and less time every minute to reach them.
This post and the counter up there are tangible reminders to help keep me on target. That, and Steely Dan's lyrics (taken out of context and applied the way I think of them). So if you'll excuse me now, I have some catching up to do. ~~GHC
Your everlastin' summer, you can see it fadin' fast...
Are you reelin' in the years, stowin' away the time...
You've been tellin' me you're a genius since you were seventeen
In all the time I've known you, I still don't know what you mean...
Are you reelin' in the years, stowin' away the time...
Are you reelin' in the years, stowin' away the time...?
Friday, July 07, 2006
It will come back to you in your dreams...
The Horror Library Anthology Volume I
...runs the entire spectrum of dark fiction...embraces the genre, paying diligence to the traditional spine tingler, the supernatural, the haunted, the dark satire and the gritty modern thriller. Thirty dark tales, each by a different story teller.
Customer Reviews:
.... truly fresh meat for the horror fan. In ten years time some of the writers whose work appears here will be known as masters of the genre, so shrink wrap your copy and remember, I told you so!
...the first anthology from R.J. Cavendar and Cutting Block Press...[is] a great first run...look forward to volume II
...the stories are creepy and scary just like you'd expect. There's also a touch of black humor in several pieces...
...a good introduction to all the various types of horror available from [sic]todays up and coming authors...
Buy it, read it, bury it, it will come back to you in your dreams.
THE REMEMBERING COUNTRY by Kevin Filan: One of the best writers you've never heard of. This tale is bizarre...
BLACK BOX by Eric Stark: ...a superbly creepy story...really shines...
...writing reminds me a bit of Jack Ketchum and the work has the same effect. An original idea.
MOMMA'S SHADOW by Mark E. Deloy: ...great, creepy old school horror...
SHADOWS by D.X. Williams: ...twisted piece...
SKULL FARMERS by Matt Samet: ...nasty and seriously mental. Fans of psycho horror will foam over this one...
A SUNNY DAY TURNS DARK by Chris Perridas: ...dark humor...
THE MOTHER by jOhn lOverO: ...a unique take on vampires...
SURRENDER by Vince Churchill: ...If erotica is your thing...
WINGS WITH HOT SAUCE by Fran Friel: a touch of black humor...made me laugh outloud...
THE PUPPET SHOW by Rick J. Brown: ...apocolyptic sci-fi horror that sent chills up and down my spine. The imagery was like Gaiman meets Lovecraft meets Giger meets Dark City. Killer prose, great characterization-- a frighteningly brilliant piece...
Buy It Here
Butcher Shop Quartet Volume I
(A collection of four novella-length tales. ~~CC)
Customer Reviews:
The Last of Boca Verde by Boyd E. Harris kicks off the Quartet by plunging the reader into the darkest jungles of Central America. It's obvious that Harris knows the region; his descriptive prose had me coughing from imagined forest fire smoke, jumpy from numerous creepy-crawlies, perspiring from imagined humidity, fatigued from the exhaustive horseback climb seven thousand feet up into the cloud forest itself. Then came the Congo Negro...
The House on the Hill by Australian author Clinton Green is a classic Greek tragedy about two men whose lives are forever changed after spending the night in a haunted house... young men's dreams of adventure and glory in battle turn into nightmares as they're exposed to the harsh realities of war. The twist at the end is just icing on the cake.
The Reconstruction of Kasper Clark by English author Michael Stone is a delightful romp through Hell, portrayed as a clinic specializing in plastic surgery... Stone teases, twists and tantalizes the reader from the first page to the last...
The Darkling Child by A.T. Andreas... ancient wisdom ignored at a heavy cost, weakness of the flesh, and self-betrayal... The author leads and misleads the reader through increasingly intricate interactions between personified Good and Evil... a twisted intimate dance of light and dark which redefines Faith and Providence.
Buy It Here
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