I just got word that my short story “Red Road” will be appearing on Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show.
“Red Road” is an animal quest fantasy / political allegory … with a twist. Think Lord of the Rings meets Animal Farm. Thanks to John Joseph Adams for inadvertently inspiring me to write this story. (He recommended a book to me, but cautioned that the book contained talking animals. I said, “No, that’s cool. I like talking animals.” Then later I thought: Hey, yeah, I do like talking animals … and yet I’ve never written about talking animals. I should write a story that has some talking animals. Then my mind flashed back to a joke I made involving talking animal stories years ago at the CSSF writing workshop, and I thought: You know what, I’m going to turn that joke into a story. It’s so crazy, it just might work. “Red Road” is the result.)
Leave a Reply