I’ll
be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C.
for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be
published by Farolight
Publishing
(Cutting
Block Books)
in April, 2017.
DAY 10 of 27: David Tallerman
1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Little presents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfrey presents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstone presents “Better You Believe”
10. David Tallerman presents “Casualty of Peace”
EXCERPT:
During the week, we build bombs.
The bombs look like mushrooms—like a field of fungi stretching to every horizon. In the low light, the factory floor is without walls, without ceiling. There's only us and the bombs--and there are so many more of them than us.
Is that how it feels for you? Out there, where you are, have the munitions already outnumbered those they're supposed to kill? While I work, I think of you. We build bombs to kill young men. We build bombs to make widows of girls like us. We build bombs to make money, to buy food, to stay alive, to build more bombs.
Some of the women talk and joke. Some of them even sing. I wonder how they can…
DAY 10 of 27: David Tallerman
1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Little presents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfrey presents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstone presents “Better You Believe”
10. David Tallerman presents “Casualty of Peace”
EXCERPT:
During the week, we build bombs.
The bombs look like mushrooms—like a field of fungi stretching to every horizon. In the low light, the factory floor is without walls, without ceiling. There's only us and the bombs--and there are so many more of them than us.
Is that how it feels for you? Out there, where you are, have the munitions already outnumbered those they're supposed to kill? While I work, I think of you. We build bombs to kill young men. We build bombs to make widows of girls like us. We build bombs to make money, to buy food, to stay alive, to build more bombs.
Some of the women talk and joke. Some of them even sing. I wonder how they can…
— Casualty
of Peace by David Tallerman
ABOUT: David Tallerman
David
Tallerman
is the author of the recently released YA fantasy, The
Black River Chronicles: Level One, the Tales
of Easie Damasco series, and the Tor.com
novella, Patchwerk. His comics work
includes the absurdist steampunk graphic novel, Endangered Weapon B:
Mechanimal Science, and the Rosarium
miniseries, C21st Gods.
David's short stories have appeared or are due in around eighty markets, including Clarkesworld, Nightmare, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A number of his best dark fantasy and horror stories were included in his debut collection, The Sign in the Moonlight and Other Stories.
He can be found online at davidtallerman.co.uk.
David's short stories have appeared or are due in around eighty markets, including Clarkesworld, Nightmare, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A number of his best dark fantasy and horror stories were included in his debut collection, The Sign in the Moonlight and Other Stories.
He can be found online at davidtallerman.co.uk.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.