Another one bites the neck.
Another issue of AlienSkin is ready for your perusal. Also, the competition for a short story on the horror of the toys is still open until the end of July. Please don't inundate me with entries at the last minute. I prefer them spaced out so I have time to read them properly. If your entry arrives five minutes before closing time, that's how long I'll have to read it. Keep that in mind!
This issue's horror article is about manmade monsters. Sgt. Shelsky has some advice on how to sell yourself, not just your work. No, not like that. Don't be disgusting. This is a family castle, at least it was until the unfortunate incident of which I shall say no more at present.
The drool-inducing but heavily armed Lady Blade talks about the ecology of fantasy worlds. I wonder what she'd make of the ecology of Dume Swamp? I know several bearded and sandaled types have tried to examine our interesting flora and fauna although none appear to have survived the experience. Well, centuries of laboratory waste have produced some interesting, if unfriendly, specimens.
Note the front page news. AlienSkin will be all about Flash and Micro fiction after November so don't go sending longer stories there. The longer fiction section is already closed. Concentrate on the quickies.
You know what makes me smile? Aside from a visitor who enters without needing anaesthesia, that is. A seriously fright-inducing story written in exactly 666 words. Next time I run a competition I think that's what I'll do. I think Red Stan would like such stories although they would have to be printed on asbestos for him. Come to think of it, I haven't seen him in a while. I suppose he's busy going to and fro in the world, and moving up and down in it. He must be thoroughly sick of that by now.
Anyway, no writing tonight. Reading time!
