"The Loquacius Cadaver" Reprinted!

"The Loquacious Cadaver", my story from The Lion and the Aardvark: Aesop's Modern Fables (ed. Robin D. Laws, Stone Skin Press, 2012) has been reprinted in The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012 (ed. Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, Ticonderoga Press 2013). It is among the weirdest 1,500 words I have ever written, and 38 of these are included below:



"One night in the ghastly adolescence of the world, when men and women had learned enough to be sure they knew everything but were yet to take responsibility for themselves, the Beetle found a corpse in the desert..."