So, I have this job. I like the work, it pays well, and offers fascinating coworkers. (I’ll skip the Trumpcultie militia members who still refuse to cover their damn noses with masks.) Backstory: for various safety reasons we can’t bring in earphones or our own players. We have to listen to radios, which in my…
Read More Fake drama, failing democraciesI wrote this post about beads a few months back. I’ve since been quietly processing the news that Kalmbach Publishing shuttered both Bead & Button Magazine and its annual flagship exhibition the Bead & Button Show. Covid19 may have killed the 2020 show, but it revealed larger market flaws and fragility in that part of…
Read More Beads, Diversity, and Green CitiesI’ll have work showing up in two anthologies this year. The first is the remarkable Mirrormaze, a dreampunk anthology of mind-melting SFF from editor Cliff Jones Jr. and Fractured Mirror Publishing, to be released on December 8, 2020. I’ve read the galley. It was stunningly well-put together. You should pre-order this book! My story is…
Read More New Anthologiescopyright 1999, by Lee M. Crane, Sr (March 1923 – October 2020) THE GHOST ON GRIMES CREEK A lot of people don’t believe in ghosts. That’s understandable. Seeing is believing and few people have really seen the spirits of the departed, especially in North America. Conditions suitable to produce sustenance for these entities are…
Read More The Ghost on Grimes CreekSpoilers! I’ll be honest: the main reason I got a new phone was its swanky camera, better rates from T-Mobile, and a reduced subscription to Netflix. The main reason I wanted Netflix was The Jim Henson Company’s ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’. This ambitious prequel to the Dark Crystal movie promised intriguing characters, plus…
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