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Call of the Ancients Craft and Retrieval

 As the torrential rain of summer departs to make way for the torrential rain of autumn, I'm  pleased to announce that two of my stories have been accepted for publication in Dragon Soul Press anthologies. 

Firstly, 'Retrieval', a scifi / cyberpunk novelette for the anthology 'Surge' due out at the end of April and 'Call of the Ancients' Craft' a fantasy novelette for the anthology 'Beyond Atlantis' due out at the end of May, this year.

'Retrieval' is an idea I had sitting around for a very long time, that consisted of  nothing more than a 2-3 page intro that's moved from computer to computer since the 90s with the rest of my to-do-later list of scifi stories that took a back seat while I worked on music and other things over the years. The other part was a scene that has played out in my head every time I listened to the 12" version of Jesus Built my Hotrod by Ministry for the last 20 years. So I'm glad to finally see this story completed. I'll probably have to do a direct sequel to it at some point.

'Call of the Ancients' Craft' is a fantast story that take place entirely under the sea. It was fun to explore beneath the waves of my fantasy world, as there are things to see down there, very separated from the rest of the world but not entirely unrelated. 

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