My latest short story, "Not Alone," just went up on Reactor Magazine. Check it out here: https://reactormag.com/not-alone-pat-...

The story is set at a roadside attraction in Florida that the protagonist describes like this: “It’s a park filled with science exhibits created by people who believe in fairy tales. My mom and dad believed in science, believed in fairy tales, and believed in happy endings. I suppose you have to believe in happy endings to buy swampland in Florida, build life-sized dinosaurs, and assume people will pay to visit.I'm a big fan of strange roadside attractions."

As you can probably tell, I'm a big fan of roadside attractions, the stranger the better. This story was inspired, in part, by the Trees of Mystery, a now defunct roadside attraction in Scotts Valley, California created by a farmer who began grafting and shaping trees as a hobby and created a collection of what he called "the World's Strangest Trees."