Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
"Pretty Girl"
You can read my short story, "Pretty Girl", online here: http://www.pillhillpress.com/current-issue-of-erotica-quarterly.html
Excerpt from "The Colony"
When I was fourteen years old I was escorted to a queen’s cell for the very first time. To enable population diversity, a typical colony of over 1900, had about fifty different queens, whom not only bared children, but held office as head of government. She laid in her bed of satin, surrounded by deep, red walls that displayed an artful arrangement of vines, roses, and honey suckles. The queen was much older than myself and she looked much older than she probably was. Most queens, if lucky, gave birth to a child a year. If she had been birthing babies since twelve years of age, I suspected by now she had birthed over thirty babies in her lifetime. She was large and barely moved from her lazed position on the bed. I wondered if she was my mother, but there would be no way of knowing.
Censorship
I'm encountering a lot of markets that specify no abuse, no sex, no violence, no swears. Soooo... you mean no horror? Seriously, how does one write horror without those elements? Sure, I like a good spooky ghost story just as much as the next reader, but I'm an adult now. I'm a little bit beyond "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark", granted that's a damn good book. But I don't write children's books, I write shit that is gonna twist your soul and then take a shit on it! I'm having trouble finding markets that don't mind a little exploitation. Not everything needs to be subtle and tasteful. I write what hurts to hear and look at, but it doesn't make my work any less intelligent and well thought out. There is a difference between masturbatory, hard-up, gore and porn, and what I do. I write sex and violence as it pertains to humanity. Humans fuck, fight, and swear. Art reflects life.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
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