Went looking for all the links I could find to a story I’d done quite a while back for a collection gathered and edited by Martin H. Greenberg and supervised by Joe Blades. I found the story summarized on the website Vault of Horror: Brit Horror Pulp Plus for fans of horror fiction and film.
It was the first real validation I've encountered that suggested something I wrote might outlast me. It makes for a funny sensation when I put fingers to keys as I write the next piece. What will this new work say about me? What do I want it to say about me? Do I have anything worth saying?
That sensation also has a way of binding with the myriad rejections every writer receives, and makes me wonder if I really have anything at all to say. I’ve re-read the story. I find it entertaining. I think there is a message still there, buried so as not to be off-putting to the reader. One that I hope it will sit in the brain pan and marinate with all the other ingredients a reader adds with all the other influences at work on the reader.
