In 2019, I was going to turn fifty and had my midlife crisis by wallowing in the comic books I loved as a kid.I started buying comic books again. Not new comics. Hell no. I was keyed into old comics.The shit I read when I was a kid.When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I spent all my money on comic books. I would go to the local shop on Saturdays and buy a large wedge of books and spend the next week reading them all.I loved all of them, but would they all stand up?

The world of old time radio is a fantasy land where you take the voices and make an entire world. Nothing is better.This collects six forgotten masterpieces. And yes. They are real. Why would you even think to say that we made this shit up? We would never write something ourselves and call it masterpieces. We are too humble for that.Six masterpieces. Well, you can decide.There is the episode of Doctor Jeckyll's Two Face Saloon where a man comes in to play Hangman wi...

Santo was the greatest luchador that ever danced in the ring.His moves were so good they were like poetry.And that is why we present a book of poetry.Most are inspired by some of his great movies, where he fought vampires, werewolves and robots.These poems are irreverent and sometimes touching.There is a world to explore in the films of a masked wrestler fighting Aztec Mummies. There is a world of poetry in the saga of Santo.. We are brave enough to ...

David wrote two similar memoirs in the form of lists. One was all the monsters he loved before he was 13. The second memoir was all the heroes he loved before he became a teen.This collects both 100 Monsters and 100 Heroes. What makes a hero you love? What makes a monster you love? Can they be the same character?These two little books were meant to be together.And now they are

A few weeks ago, I received a zine by the prolific self-publisher, Marc Fischer, called the Self Initiated Hotel Artist Residency. It talked about using a cheap hotel room for several days as a kind of studio. This is not a new idea, but it was nice to see that notion explored so well by a talented writer.He asked for those of us who have used a hotel as an artists' retreat to write him and send him a line. And that is what this is.This open letter addressed to Marc sketche...

Who did you idolize as a kid? Who did you see as a hero?David Macpherson has asked that question to himself and assembled 100 heroes of his from before he was 13. When you are a kid, you are the most open to having a hero.Each hero gets a little essay describing why they mattered. Some of these are funny and absurd. Some are moving. There are a good deal of comic book and television heroes, but some of these were real. All too real.What David Macpherson has given yo...

Can you learn how to be a writer from reading someone's abandoned work?Maybe.David Macpherson writes every day and has published 180 ebook titles. Some of them are quite good. Some do not reach the end.There are a lot of reasons why pieces are not completed. This book has a half dozen unfinished works with an introduction that attempts to explain why it didn't work out.Some of the work is fun. Some of it will help you realize that mistakes happen. This book ...

There are Gods for so many things.There are Gods for Writing.If you are a writer then you pray to at least one of the many Gods of Writing. There are the ones of getting an agent. The God of Following Trends. The Gods of Writing First Drafts and Multiple Drafts. There is the God of the Slush Pile.There is a God for all of your time as a writer.You need to believe. You need to worship. You need to know your deities.And the best way to do that is to re...

The Wolf Man, Larry, has gone into a giant liquor store and is wandering about, even though he has been sober. Werewolves have a hard time staying sober and being in a liquor store is a bad look.Mr. Hyde (of the famous Duo) goes in to help Larry out. They are both sober. Mr. Hyde isn't really a sponsor, but he can be persuasive.They wander around the immense liquor store. They talk. They quarrel. A young employee of the store joins them. She probably should not be taken at ...

Jack and Janice have rules for the third in their threesome. They try to go over everything that might not go well or that didn't go perfect in the past.Before the "Sexy Time" begins, the third has to read and initial every rule, all 113 of them. It might take some time, but man is it worth it.Here are the rules.These are the things you should know to have a great night.Take your time before going to the next rule. You might learn something about yourself wi...

Time is not a river. Time is the ticking of the clock. Time is not a loop where people run around and repeat the same day over and over.No.Time is a highway.It is a long well paved highway that goes from the start of creation on until the end of everything. Don't be alarmed. There are offramps along the way. You can drive the Time Highway and get off at your favorite eras. You just need to be able to be on the Highway.Like any major thorough fare, there are ...

What we have here is a collection of tiny books that were released as ebooks over the past six years. Sometimes, a collection of stories, especially if they are very short, will be small tiny things. Some people have a fear of tiny books. We get it. The last thing you want to run into in a dark alley one moonless night is as five thousand ebooksNow, we have brought them together, like teenagers at a kegger, and thiis length is much more acceptable to the reading public. Though litt...