I am pleased to announce that Strange Horizons will be reprinting my science fiction short story “Winds That Stir Vermilion Sands” on June 29. Curating the tale will be the fabulous author and journalist Sabrina Vourvoulias.
Originally published in the 2015 Texas Poetry Calendar. The ghost of the moon Trembles upon the river, Its pallor cracked and veined By the oblique shadows of branches— Ebony and mesquite, grasping at darkness. Like a lunar fragment A white form floats in those mangling waters— A face obscured by…
Yesterday’s Laredo Morning Times featured English and Spanish articles on my school visits and writing.
Saiba was a Zen Buddhist monk who wrote this jisei or death haiku as he sensed his end approach in the fall of 1858. He finally died on the night of the harvest moon. So I’ll just scoot my pillow closer to the full autumn moon. —Translated by David Bowles,…
My short story “Wildcat” has been published in issue 72 of Apex Magazine. You can read it on-line here.
