A Tour of the City of Assassins

[klward]

My new short story, "A Tour of the City of Assassins", is now up at Ticonderoga Online. It might be thought the title says it all. Still, you may be interested in the other 3,000 or so words.

My especial thanks is due to Russell Farr for his patience and insightful editing. And congratulations all round to the editorial team for restoring one of  Australia's oldest semi-pro webzines, in time for its (essentially) 10th anniversary!

The new look Ticon 4 contains many interesting items, including fiction by Sue Isle and Matthew Tighe, reviews, Alisa Krasnostein on the graphic novel and speculation by Russell himself on the fate of the physical book which raises some valid points. I myself took a customer query about the Dymocks e-book readers yesterday. Shame I don't actually work there!

Comments

[artbroken.livejournal.com]

Very cool piece! Reminds me of a cross between The Dictionary of the Khazars and Peter Straub's 'A Short Guide to the City', except completely different in every way. And much funnier.

[punkrocker1991.livejournal.com]

to be fair, special thanks are due to you for your patience, allowing me to take 2 years to publish it.

it's a fine story, i hope lots of folks drop by to checkitout.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Read it ,loved it, found the Keats quotation.

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

I love the 'voice', the distinctive vocabulary and choice of words, of the narrator. It greatly aids the descriptions in painting a picture of the world we're invited into.

[kylaw.livejournal.com]

Oh good: I was hoping someone would! But did you notice the other "riffs" in the same passage?

[kylaw.livejournal.com]

As always, you are too kind.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I haven't had time at lunch to track them to their source. I recognised three so far (not counting Keats).

This reminds of one of Jnae Yolen's tales, but darker. Have you thought of writing more like this? "cause I love it.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

You do a lot in such a short space. It really is marvellous.

[kylaw.livejournal.com]

I have decided to admit that I'm not familiar with the two works you mention. However,I suspect you are flattering me outrageously.

[kylaw.livejournal.com]

Three it is (that I'm consciously aware of). I'm especially impressed you got the Byron: that's buried deep in Don Juan.

[artbroken.livejournal.com]

The Straub piece is in the 'Houses Without Doors' collection.

The Dictionary of the Khazars is by Serbian author Milorad Pavic, and I'll lend you my copy if you can't get it from a library. I rather suspect you'll love it.