The dystopian eco-disaster "Mad Max with Boats & Sharks" story "How the Dun-in Man Got His Name" will be included in Helios Quarterly's Best of Vol. 1 . You can pre-order the best of  here.     Helios Quarterly , which is semi-pro & counts towards Sci-Fi Writer's Guild eligibility picked up another marsh punk tale. It will run next year or possibly, 2021.      Mulch is in the editing queue over at Montag Press . Still on track for a late-year release.     New poetry is forthcoming later this summer.     Summer Reading:     Currently reading new poetry books by Adam Tavel, James Arthur, Ned Balbo--Tavel and Arthur both have great (but very different)  Darth Vader  poems, I might add. Balbo's music poems delight these old post-punk ears.        Currently reading A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms  by George RR Martin.     Still thinking about:  If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar (poetry), Tradition  by Jericho Brown (so good!) ASOFAI --I re-read ...
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