New Work: "Who Looks Back?"

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And last but not least of the current batch from Stone Skin Press, my story "Who Looks Back?" is the opener for Shotguns v Cthulhu. Edited once again by Robin D. Laws, our brief was to combine the mythos with action. It's heresy, I know, of the best and brightest kind.

"Who looks back on the Waimangu track?

Not Kelsie Munroe, running light over gravel, the slope gentle but the surface potentially foul. The track's made for walking, not running or driving. There is a road proper for that, for ferrying tired tourists back from Lake Rotomahana. You're meant to walk one way down the length of the valley, taking in all its steams and smokes, and weirdly-coloured sinter. But Kelsie never walks where she can run and Lewis jumps."

This one was simply meant to be. Robin's query was in my in-box when I got back to the hotel from seeing "the world's newest landscape", in New Zealand. I had the pitch ready to go, and as he said by reply, "Flying Polyps don't get enough love." Also featuring such tracts as "Infernal Devices" by Kenneth Hite and Robin's own "And I Feel Fine..." both e-book and paperback are available from the Stone Skin Shop,