SPRING.

I have neither wit nor wisdom this week, nor obviously last week, nor the fortnight before that.

This week, however, in the inbox there is news of an interview.

Alex Pruteanu speaks to T.M. DeVos at Gloom Cupboard Magazine, September issue. They talk about: Short Lean Cuts, Pink Floyd, nihilism, Gogol Bordello, F. Scott Fitzgerald, growing up in Romania, and countries without borders. Also, the paperback version of Short Lean Cuts is being published by Amazon Publishers and will be available to purchase by the end of September.

Plus Greg X Graves' new title from 1889 Labs:

Codex Necromantia is the chronicle of the survivors of the zombie catastrophe. Well, survivors makes them sound organized. Stragglers is more accurate – besides, how can the self-raised corpse of the city’s founder count as having survived anything? Greg X. Graves tells the story of life, love, necromancy, the fragile human condition when caught between the jaws of a very robust human condition, and wholesale zombie slaughter.

$2.99, available in the Amazon Kindle Store (print coming soon) 

Also at 1889Labs is a short from Guts and Sass - An Anti Epic by ME Traylor. Worth the call in just to read that one.

Serial fiction is there too, of course. Both Letitia’s Touchstone and M Jones Gangster have wrapped. Take your chance now to go along and read for free, and enjoy.

In regard to Touchstone. I sought out some valued opinions, three editors and an enthusiastic reader. The feedback was centred on the first part of the story, and I have three to one advice to leave it as it stands rather than cut out most of the first three thousand words. If you would like a say in what goes in the final submission and what gets the chop, please do not hesitate to email.

Lastly, September issue of eFiction Magazine is out and about.

Join the growing list of subscribers, either to a free format or direct to your ereader. Easy as, click over there on the cover image in the sidebar. Off you shoot.

This month there are new serials beginning.

The Dead Beat - E.D. Linquist
The Bike Mechanic - Aaron M. Wilson
Blood Binds - Tonya R. Moore

As always an amazing selection of Short Stories from names you will be looking out for in the future.

Motivator - Kristy F. Gillespie
Without Form or Substance - Phyllis A. Duncan
kimberly anne - Steven Terrill
Gypsies - Richard Sutton
Blind Date - Mary O’Neil
Divine Providence - Robert Turner

More Poetry:

Youth and vitality - Lillie A. Lindsay
My Life Song - Lisa Vandiver
Memory - Michael Abolafia

And book reviews from Essie Holton.

Helper12 by Jack Blaine
Break Room Anthology: Mystery and Horror Stories by M.T. O’Neil
Night Machines by Kia Heavey

Lots and lots to do and see all over the place this springtime.

Enjoy.
p.s. 34 years ago. How good is your memory?

September '77
Port Elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual In police room 619....
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead
-The man is dead.
You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher.
                                         Peter Gabriel.

Lxx