Decades after their music defined a generation, the two surviving members of a legendary sixties quartet are contacted by a residents of a magical land that, once upon a time, they visited and rescued from evil with the joyous power of their music. They have no memory of this, and really, neither one of them […]
Originally published on Facebook 7 May 2013. Edited for this publication. Josh Olson, a screenwriter, wrote an essay called “I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script.” Its thesis was that if you had a nephew or a cousin or next door neighbor of friend of a plumber who wanted Josh to read his screenplay and […]
Available in the May 2017 issue of Lightspeed. It took James Washington forever, almost literally forever, to remember that his wife and children were as dead as he was. For a while, he barely even realized that he was dead himself. Heaven, for lack of a better word, is bliss, and as anybody who has […]