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Should have been up for the Archibald “The Death of Spongebob”
Death of Sponge Bob - Erik Alos "Alluding to the BP oil spill, the painting foresees an environmental apocalypse from man’s rape and destruction of the natural world. There is only one possible savior. The ancient hymn notes, “Absorbent, yellow and porous is He.”...
Oh, what’s this trumpet for? Why, to toot my own horn 🙂
Haven't done an updatey type post for a while, but here's some writing-related stuff worth whacking on the ole blog: Anywhere But Earth First up, the complete Table of Contents for the Anywhere but Earth anthology has been released here:...
A moment of attempted embeddery.
Just trying out the embedding of You-Tube clips via Wordpress...was having some troubles, but an update looks like it stops the code from just dropping off the page when I hit update. It's been flipping ages since I got a video clip to work on this site. To my sadness...
Travel through time…in style
RIP Daily Cabal
The flash-fiction collective known as the Daily Cabal is winding its way to a dignified end, and myself and several of the previous contributors have given final short pieces of fiction to the site by way of goodbye. My own piece "Shore-Birth" can be found at the...
2011 Ditmar Awards Shortlists
I went offline for a few days, and returned to see that the 2011 Ditmar Awards Shortlists have been released into the wild. Lots of great works, and like the recent Aurealis shortlists it looks like a solid selection in all categories. Even cooler, my Writers of the...
Midnight Echo #6 Table of Contents
Without further ado, it's time to announce the Table of Contents for issue #6 of Midnight Echo, the magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association. The theme for the issue was science fiction/horror, and we've picked some absolute beauties for you! "Out Hunting...
Pooch Hooch
Aurealis Awards – Finalist!
The shortlists for this year's Aurealis Awards have just been released into the wild, and can be read here: http://aurealisawards.com/finalists2010.pdf So bust out the Crayolas and colour me tickled pink, I'm a Finalist! How exciting, and somewhat humbling that my...
Midnight Echo #5 review
The fifth issue of Midnight Echo has just been reviewed at Scaryminds, and of my two stories the reviewer says: "Included are of course Jason Fischer's award winning flash piece Goggy, I can't praise this piece enough, it's quintessential flash while get a real chill...
Don’t say I didn’t warn you about the camels.
doo-dah, doo-dah...
Because that’s how they rolled?
I can say with some authority that 80s permed ladies wearing leopard print leotards almost never appeared during any Dungeons and Dragons game. At least, not the ones I went to. This is probably for the best, we were 15 and unlikely to cope.