Originally published at Thus Sayeth the Lord…. You can comment here or there.

I met Lon Prater at the Writers of the Future workshop in 2005, and was very impressed with both the man, and his story telling capacity. Lon’s anthology story, ‘Deadglass,’ was one of my favorites; the story that he wrote for the workshop was, bar none, the best story of the lot.

Lon knows how to tell a good story.

He’s got two out on the web now, freely accessible, that I highly recommend:

Lone Star Stories: You Do Not Know What Slipstream Is…

Slipstream is one of those undefinable genres that I can’t touch. Too…pretensious, too noveau (or however you spell it), too avant-garde. Lon Prater can touch it. He can reach out and shake it with his two big hands and knock it around a bit. Lon Prater is a genius.

You Do Not Know What Slipstream Is is an examination (though NOT a conclusion) about…er…what slipstream really is. Lon manages to honor the genre and at the same time, make fun of it.

Spacesuits and Sixguns: Kids Cost More

Spacesuits and Sixguns is a new magazine– I’ll let you click on the link and read up on it for yourself. (Hint– you have to click the cowboy to get into the magazine)

Kids Cost More is a great noir fantasy. It’s got all the traditional elements of a noir fiction: jaded, slightly morally ambiguous narrator, gritty setting, somewhat bleak outlook on the future… and it’s got mAAAAgic, too. In other words, it’s wonderful.