Back in the back of a Cadillac, number one with a bullet I’ve got a reprint in Lightspeed.* 

“The Magician’s Apprentice”, a story completed at Clarion, published by Weird Tales and nominated for a Shirley Jackson, is free to read at Lightspeed! Wrote this in 2010 and I’m still fond of it in 2017, which is all one can ever ask for, really. Please enjoy a story about growing up, magic, comfort food, and the strong bonds we can make with our teachers. Feel-good tale of the year**.

Readers, please be reminded that you can support this truly excellent magazine what bothered to publish me for a mere $3.99, an amount of dollars that nets you not just my story but those by this month’s authors. I haven’t read them all yet or they haven’t landed, but you’ll be getting the likes of Tobias S. Buckell, Genevieve Valentine and a whole host of truly talented others. Lightspeed will give you all these stories cheap as free anyway, but I encourage you to toss money its way, it is a good thing.

(As ever whenever this story pops up, I remember how indebted I am to Dale Bailey, the Clarion instructor for that week and a truly superhuman being.)

* The actual lyrics.
** It is not the feel-good tale of the year.