To the Wal-Mart photo center employee who accused me of infringing the copyright on my own characters…

I wager that most of us have had some pretty bad customer service at big chain stores, especially Wal-Mart. I sure have. But I bet you’ve never been accused of “stealing artwork off the web” for ordering prints of your own characters! Today I visited the St. Clair, Pennsylvania Wal-Mart to pick up a series of prints that we’d […]

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Announcing ‘Valiant, He Endured’ …and a new Martian War tale

A new libertarian science fiction anthology has just been published. Entitled Valiant, He Endured: 17 Sci-Fi Myths of Insolent Grit, this collection features an Ascension Epoch story set during the Martian Invasion. ‘Unwholsome Victuals’ is a short story of Victorian Apocalypse set during the War of the Worlds. Consumptive invalid Jonathan is stuck in Baltimore during the last days […]

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Bad Day at the Library

Mr. Gentry, a man-in-black with two different monstrous eyes, holds up a picture of a missing girl.

This entry to #SaturdayScenes is a true web exclusive. It’s something I was originally going to put in the appendices for The Dismal Tide, but never got around to. It concerns itself with the mysterious ‘Man in Black’, Mr. Gentry, the creepiest character that the East End Irregulars have encountered to date. Astute readers may notice […]

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