My story A Twist Too Far is out in Andromeda Spaceways issue 56 ... which just so happens to be their special, extra big 10 year anniversary issue. 10 years! That's a loooong time for a magazine, especially in these wacky economic climes. So paper hats off to the ASIM collective, who've pulled off something extraordinary and deserve all the spaceship cake they can eat.
A Twist Too Far is my third story to grace the pages of Australia's finest genre magazine. It's a little bit Lovecraftian, a little bit Conan Doyle, and maybe there's a drop of The Prestige in there too, come to think of it ... what with it being about competing contortionists and all. Why aren't there more horror stories about contortionists? Contortionists are scary. I mean, not as scary as gnomes, but not so far off. They bend their bodies into shapes that human bodies aren't supposed to bend into, for fun and profit. How is that not ideal fodder for a horror story? And yet I've never come across another one. So, who knows, maybe I've written the definitive contortionist horror story. Hey, stranger things have happened, and it certainly creeps the hell out of me.And also some other people, hopefully, since A Twist Too Far has made it onto the reading list for the HWA's Stoker awards. Sure would be nice to get nominated for a Stoker! In the meantime, I'm taking comfort from the fact that not only have I somehow managed to get longlisted, two anthologies I have stories in - Dark Tales of Lost Civilisations and Slices of Flesh, both from Dark Moon Books - are on there too.
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