Fish-baby Reborn!
At last, it's done.
Starfish is here as a free downloadable PDF file, re-edited and improved for your reading pleasure. I hope you'll all enjoy it.
Like Stray Dog Swordsman on Redemption Road (see earlier post), it's a special story for me. It made quite an impact on Jason Sizemore, too. He's the editor of Apex Science-Fiction and Horror Digest, the magazine to which Starfish was originally sold. Jason was so taken with it that he decided Starfish should be the magazine's cover story, and commissoned a wonderfully disturbing piece of full colour art painted by the incredible Alex McVey (who also produced a dark and creepy interior piece for the story). Check out his website sometime.
The genesis of the story was fairly simple. It was written as a knee-jerk reaction to the very worst things that surrounded me when I first arrived in Tokyo. Take my word for it, Tokyo isn't kind to animal lovers and vegetarians. Not by a long shot.
Despite being a very bleak tale, Starfish was extremely well received, and, about a year after initial publication, I was very flattered to hear that it had been selected (by vote) for reprinting in the Best of Apex Digest 2006.
Since these hard-copy versions are either no longer available or extremely hard to acquire, I'm pleased to be able to offer the story to fans in this updated digital edition.
I'd also like to say a big 'thank you' to editor Gill Ainsworth, whose advice helped me refine the story for print that first time around. She was a joy to work with.
Starfish is here as a free downloadable PDF file, re-edited and improved for your reading pleasure. I hope you'll all enjoy it.
Like Stray Dog Swordsman on Redemption Road (see earlier post), it's a special story for me. It made quite an impact on Jason Sizemore, too. He's the editor of Apex Science-Fiction and Horror Digest, the magazine to which Starfish was originally sold. Jason was so taken with it that he decided Starfish should be the magazine's cover story, and commissoned a wonderfully disturbing piece of full colour art painted by the incredible Alex McVey (who also produced a dark and creepy interior piece for the story). Check out his website sometime.
The genesis of the story was fairly simple. It was written as a knee-jerk reaction to the very worst things that surrounded me when I first arrived in Tokyo. Take my word for it, Tokyo isn't kind to animal lovers and vegetarians. Not by a long shot.
Despite being a very bleak tale, Starfish was extremely well received, and, about a year after initial publication, I was very flattered to hear that it had been selected (by vote) for reprinting in the Best of Apex Digest 2006.
Since these hard-copy versions are either no longer available or extremely hard to acquire, I'm pleased to be able to offer the story to fans in this updated digital edition.
I'd also like to say a big 'thank you' to editor Gill Ainsworth, whose advice helped me refine the story for print that first time around. She was a joy to work with.
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