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17 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
This is a fun little collaboration I did with Venezuelan rock band El Globo Oscuro. It was their idea, actually, and I was more than happy to jump on it, because they are awesome. I already enjoyed their music but only recently discovered that...
9 Jan 2024 1 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey
Here’s the first installment of a series, offering you a visual/audio experience of my forthcoming novel. I’m super stoked about the project, which is finally reaching fruition after a couple solid years’ worth of work! That’s yours truly narr...
8 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Here’s the first installment of a series, offering you a visual/audio experience of my forthcoming novel. I’m super stoked about the project, which is finally reaching fruition after a couple solid years’ worth of work! That’s yours truly narr...
5 Jan 2024 1 minute read 8 comments Allen Taylor
Several years ago, I hit upon a bright idea and put out a call for submissions to a speculative fiction anthology I planned to publish. At the time, I used CreateSpace, a small independent publishing platform that has since been purchased by Amazon....
4 Jan 2024 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The main building has four bedrooms, all in a row on the northern side of the second floor. These were originally reserved for the kitchen staff, but in the absence of such, apart from Chef Jen, three fourths of them went unclaimed. Then Gr...
3 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“Man, your timing could not be better!” Lenny had marveled, when Jeremy called him, not even 24 hours after losing his construction gig. “Yeah, he already agreed to it, on the spot,” Jeremy explains, “not that it really took much convincing...
2 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“I need this!” Kay screams, hands out and fingers raised as if about to claw her mother. “I fucking NEED this, and YOU already agreed to it!” Emily and Denise are on their way over right now, this morning of their scheduled departure. Every...
31 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
toy collection at an artists’ retreat “Lenny! Get over here!” the foreman, Bob Griffin, barks at him from across the muddy expanse of their work site. Rivet gun in hand, Lenny was en route to the makeshift elevator, which would take him t...
29 Dec 2023 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Approximately ten minutes after leaving the art institute, they arrive in the nearest sleepy hamlet all over again, gliding down a gentle curve to the southwest, crossing one state route, before nearing the Fairlawn Diner. Apart from one na...
26 Dec 2023 24 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“Does anyone want to write a letter to the president?” the girl in the window asks. “Uh…,” says Denise, while Jeremy just chuckles and smirks. “Sure!” Emily enthuses, however, and ventures a few steps closer. “Always eager to please,” Denis...
