Status Updates From DJStories The Best of David...

This collection overlaps with Lost Angels and Seeing Red.

"Calendar Girl": Sweet and sad; reminds me of Ellison's stories about women, sans venom. Also reminds me of a Gaiman story, though I forget the name.

Gills is a love song to the black lagoon. Liked it a lot.

Finished (Melodrama), a sweet paean to the old creature feature of a bygone era.

"Pick Me Up" was another fast-n-nasty, black-humored treat.

Got it working again. Finished "Sedalia", about dinosaur cowboys. Good stuff.

nook updated, now it won't let me read the netgalleys. AAARGH!!

... plus a few stories; I've been jumping around a bit.

Just finished the infamous "Jerry's Kids Meet Wormboy", one of the stories that defined splatterpunk. Fast, brash, and nasty, with a truly sick sense of humor. Not my thing, really, but well-written and a much-needed change of pace, considering the more high-brow stuff I've been reading lately.

"Tag" was good, reminded me of some of the scuzzier, scarier parts of my life, during and just a bit after high school. Was never homeless, but a lot of the other stuff applied.

Reading the sixth story, "Not From Around Here", which is the first one to really feel "splatterpunk". "Coming Soon..." and "The Shaft" had their moments, but this is the real nasty, though the setup has a King-like feel to it.
Favorite thus far is the first, "One for the Horrors", which was similar in feel to Joe Hill's "20th Century Ghost", one of my all-time faves.
Breakneck pacing throughout, so far.