I just finished a new story, “P-NZ4.” This is the story that came out of my musings about acid-rave sci-fi punk-funk lit. My story has no rave, and virtually no funk, but it’s certainly sci-fi, and sorta punk-ish, and there’s definitely acid, so I call that a pretty good first attempt. I’m actually supposed to be working on a screenplay right now, and I had instituted an ironclad rule against writing any fiction until my screenplay was done, but I just couldn’t stop thinking about “P-NZ4,” and I had finally figured out exactly how the first scene should go, and I’d come up with enough good lines that I was afraid I was going to start forgetting them if I didn’t just go ahead and write it, so I sat down to type up just the first scene, and before I knew it I had 7,000 words of comic gold. It’s Star Wars meets Don Quixote meets Huckleberry Finn. On acid. Lots of acid. Watch for it probably not anytime soon in a magazine or anthology near you.