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A Poetry Chapbook

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I assume:      That I'm scheduled to be run over by a streetcar soon since so many pleasant thing have been happening to me lately.      The most recent—I just signed the contract today—is a poetry collection of mine that's due to be published this summer by the interestingly named Island of Wak Wak Press .      On their website, they define a chapbook as "between 20 and 50 pages of poetry," something I didn't know till I began this whole process. What I ended up submitting has 63 poems spread out over 51 pages, but I guess that was close enough. The title is Two Strikes, And I'm Out , and it focuses on a hapless 1st-person narrator trying to make some sort of connection to the outside world. In the first half of the book, he reaches out to a talking animal, fantasy world, and in the second half, to a computer-driven, science-fiction world. I don't wanna give anything away, but the title perhaps foreshado...
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Of a Feather, Pg 56

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Yes. What could possibly go wrong?
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Of a Feather, Pg 55

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Maybe our two plot lines will actually start coming together now? Maybe?
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Terebinth, Page 1,823: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      Oh, c'mon, Lamont: you're trying to tell me that "fraught" doesn't rhyme with "pot"? Is that what you're trying to tell me?
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Of a Feather, Pg 54

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Everything always comes down to etiquette around here, doesn't it?
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Of a Feather, Pg 53

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Yeah, if you're looking for "ordinary," Captain, I think you're in the wrong place.
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A Forthcoming Novel

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Now that we've:      Signed the contracts, I guess it's official.      For nearly 25 years now, I've been writing stories about Cluny the Sorceress Squirrel and her assorted friends and foes. For an idea of how long that's been in internet time, you can read the first of her stories, "Familiars," for free if you can reach this old Livejournal page . Otherwise, you can try tracking down a copy of the 2001 edition of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress anthology —that was vol. 19, or XIX since they used Roman numerals most of the time. Or you can pick up The Ursa Major Anthology from Fur Planet Books. The story got reprinted there when it won the Ursa Major award for best anthropomorphic short story of 2001.      After that, I had more stories about Cluny in volumes 23 through 32 of Sword & Sorceress , then got one more into the final volume, #34, in 2019. There's also one more story, a direct se...
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