Cold Cuts

One of the ways I entertain myself when I stand in line at the local sandwich shop chain is by watching the cold cut artists behind the counter as they prepare my meal. They arrange the order line so you can customize your sandwich as they create it, dictating what toppings and sauces you'd like to include in your meal. It makes you feel special. But me? I'm fascinated by the open display of butchery and cold meat. Standing behind the sneeze guard glass makes me feel like I'm in a surgical theater, watching doctors operate as they slice bread…

How to Grow a Man-Eating Plant

Pseudopod: The Sound of Horror has just podcast my short story, "How to Grow a Man-Eating Plant" (read by Sheila Unwin). Happy Halloween! If you are unable to listen to podcasts, and you haven't already read it in 100 Jolts, then you might be able to find the story in print online in its original publication somewhere on my online bibliography. [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/pseudopod/PseudoFlash008_GrowAManEatingPlant.mp3]

"When the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs; then thought I, 'If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you.'...So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." -- Benjamin Franklin (died 1790)

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