Coming up for air
I’ve had my nose to the grindstone with day-job work these past few days. It’s like the rest of the world ceased to exist for a time. Didn’t read any of my normal message boards or other web pages, watched almost no television, read nothing, wrote nothing. But now the project is in beta testing, [...]
Gathering moss
My daughter called us at home on Saturday night. She was on the deck at her Halifax apartment listening to the Rolling Stones playing at the Commons a couple of blocks away. We could hear them loud and clear over the telephone. She’s not a big Stones fan, so she didn’t splurge the $100 for [...]
Burden of the Badge
Last night’s session with the Citizen’s Police Academy took me to downtown Houston, fourth ward, where the SWAT team is headquartered. The building is unassuming, a former fire station, very cramped. It houses the Tactical Operations Division, which includes SWAT, HNT (Hostage Negotiation) and the bomb squad.
The evening got off to a somber start, because [...]
That clicking sound
I turned in a 3000-word essay that I’d been asked to contribute to an upcoming project. I worked on it for a couple of weeks off and on, and I ended up with something that served the purpose, provided the information, and was about as dry as unbuttered toast. Then, a couple of mornings ago, [...]
Eureka!
It’s a dark morning. Lots of late-night rain with promise of more. I don’t mind—I like rain, and so long as it stays within the confines of our ditches and levees and I don’t have to stand out in it, I’m good.
My essay 3000 words about the Peloponnesian War is now up at Storytellers Unplugged. [...]
Sex crimes
Turned in my CD column this morning. I got a little late-breaking news about the novel King is working on now to shoehorn in at the last moment. You could wait for #57 to come out, or you can read about it at News From The Dead Zone.
I’ve started taking Friday morning off from writing—except [...]
Covet it! Murder to get it! Worship it! Read it on Sundays! Lie about it!
Thou Shalt Not is now available for order from Dark Cloud Press or Shocklines. It’s an anthology of horror and crime fiction where someone breaks one of the Ten Commandments with dire, deadly, or disastrous results.
My story is called “False Witness,” so it should be fairly obvious which commandment I’m tackling, but I won’t [...]
Non-fiction marathon
I think I finally have my Cemetery Dance column for issue #57 under control. These things take a long time to write. It’s basically a work in progress for the two-to-three month span between issues. Then, as deadline approaches (this Friday), I have to whip the unwieldy thing into some semblance of shape. Robert Morrish, [...]
Forty mph in reverse, followed by a Tazering
I had no idea that speedometers registered your speed while you were going backwards.
I realized that they did whilst going forty mph in reverse in the passenger seat of a police car. That realization was followed by abruptly being jerked around in a maneuver that is only mildly less dramatic than what happens to shuttle [...]
Proof, Broken Flowers, Off the Map
Watched a few movies this weekend. Proof, starring Anthony Hopkins and Gwyneth Paltrow, adapted from the stage play Paltrow starred in over in England. Hopkins is a brilliant mathematician who suffered from schizophrenia in his twenties, with occasional lucid periods thereafter. Paltrow is his younger daughter, the one who falls heir to his legacy of [...]
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Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
