The year 2012 has been a sparse one for me; I’ve been suffering from a kind of low-grade writer’s block and haven’t been producing much. I think I’m getting over it, and hope to be much more productive in 2013.

So it looks like my story “The Remembered,” available now in Interzone #242, will be my only published story for 2012. But it’s a story that I’m quite happy with, and I’m proud that it sold to such a well-respected and high-ranking magazine as Interzone.

In part, this story is my response to the 1968 short story “The Dance of the Changer and the Three” by Terry Carr. I dearly love that story, but where Carr makes the point that alien intelligences might be truly impossible for us to understand, I use my story to look at reasons for thinking that some eminently “human” traits might be found in the hearts and souls of aliens—even talking space squid aliens. And as with Carr’s story, my story is centered around the retelling of an alien legend.

The issue is available in print form from TTA Press here, and in ebook form from various outlets, including Amazon.