Today saw the publication of my poem “In Our Nature” at The Future Fire. This poem will be in my SF poetry collection, To the Last Ion, coming this fall from Lycan Valley Press. My collection explores the many sides of science and science fiction. Some poems look at aliens encountering humans, or humans encountering aliens. Some are darkly humorous, some are dark. Some look at what we do to ourselves and each other. In fact, the two sections within the collection: In Our Nature, and Outer Limits.

At Gavagai, my story, “An Iterminable Liminal Space” was published. This was inspired by a really terrible hotel where Stokercon was held last year. There were mattresses in the hallways on a weekend, a weird, creepy parking lot, elevator doors that either snapped closed erratically or wouldn’t close. Goo dripped from the ceilings in spots, there were no restaurants within walking distance and the one in the hotel was not open during the day. The carpet was indeed old and creepily spotted, and dust covered the tops of cabinets. We made the best of it, and it became a topic of conversation because it was definitely a hotel out of time, in all senses of the phrase.

Have fun reading these (for free) and tell me what you think.