"Sleeper," the second episode in the serialized novel The Kaslo Chronicles, is now appearing in Lightspeed Magazine . Hardboiled confidential operative Erm Kaslo is drawn deeper into the machinations of a clutch of proto-wizards murderously competing with each other in anticipation of the universe's impending sudden shift from rational cause and effect to sympathetic association (i.e., magic).

The mag is donwloadable now as a $3.99 ebook, wherever epubs and mobis are sold. Or you can wait until late in the month and read "Sleeper" for free on-line.