Welcome back to Chasm City. As the second story to be published against the backdrop of the City on the Abyss, I feel that Chasm has become a real metafictional setting (oxymoron? perhaps...) as opposed to the fancy of a noviciate writer linking his stories with references only he would ever understand. "Lost and Found" is important to me for another reason: it's the first story to sell at a professional pay scale. A few more like this, and I can get membership into the professional writers' guilds - which would rock, even if it is, strickly speaking, merely a status thing.
The theme behind "Shadow Regions" is the supernatural intruding upon everyday life - taking the mundane and recasting it in a strange and frightening light. My contribution follows two boys as they discover that the Lost and Found box at their local library takes requests... but doesn't abide cheaters.
"Shadow Regions" is available for advanced purchase from Yahoo's Shocklines store here, (where it is currently listed under the "Guaranteed Good Read" promotion - your money back if you don't like it!), from Amazon here, and should be available from Surreal's own website once some shipping difficulties get sorted out. |
