Author: SGJ

Well, my story from Gamut, “The God of Low Things,” reprinted in this month’s The Dark.

August 2018

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Because I can’t. I mean, the this one‘s built like a moose, but it’s colored like a paint horse—a shetland, maybe, or a wild horse with a winter coat:

It’s definitely not a horse, though. Look at those hind legs.

And this one‘s . . . maybe a white raccoon? The legendary ghost coon?

Whatever it is, I saw something a lot like it one night in West Texas, eating on a deer carcass: pale, used sort-of hands, sat up on its hind legs. Watched me roll past at thre…

Living and dying by Magnum PI growing up, I of course fell head over heels for this color scheme:

However, helicopters being far from any reality I knew, and trucks being ALL of my reality, I of course, then, wanted a truck with that color scheme, as Ford was doing in the late seventies:

Is that not baddest truck? Well, except for this one, which I think is a modified version of that—different wheels and tires, the color scheme kind of made louder:

Anyway, yes, I still do dream about t…

Anybody needs me next summer roundabout the end of June, I’m up in Seattle, teaching at Clarion West for the . . . let me see, let me see: third time :

Announcing the Clarion West Summer Workshop instructors for 2019

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Wow, Mapping the Interior‘s a finalist. So cool:

Announcing the 2018 World Fantasy Award Finalists

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That being Buster’s ‘Welcome home from jail!’ party from ep.5 of the new/current season of Arrested Development, where all the food is limited (“limited”) by his unadventurous palate:

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Reading David James Keaton anywhere is always a good time, but especially at LitReactor. Cool to have a shark book on this list:

https://litreactor.com/columns/the-top-ten-shark-books-that-are-in-my-house-just-in-time-for-shark-week

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Hey, this tweet got enough hearts that, were it Link, he’d now be functionally immortal. But I guess this is A link, anyway:

Never know if you don’t try pic.twitter.com/OIncv7WrqJ

— Stephen Graham Jones (@SGJ72) July 21, 2018

Anyway, yes, I subscribe to that philosophy. It’s a big reason I have so many scars, so many injuries, why I’m on so many daily pills in these my creaky years. Doesn’t stop me from collecting more scars and injuries, thoug…

#Denver #tractor #slowspeedpursuit pic.twitter.com/jBQTEzlK9o

— garbuckle (@gazucci) July 21, 2018

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