Birthday cake is the breakfast of champions
SO IT GOES, now available at Amazon.com.
It’s the late, great Kurt Vonnegut‘s birthday today. It’s also my birthday. That’s pretty much our only connection, other than the fact that I wrote a story called “The Fountain of Relative Youth” for the Vonnegut tribute anthology SO IT GOES (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing).
Vonnegut, on the other hand, wrote CAT’S CRADLE (1963), SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE (1969), and BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (1973), in which he combined satire, gallows humor, and science fiction in some of the most masterful fiction ever written.
Editor Max Booth III put together a terrific homage to Vonnegut in SO IT GOES, which features the following 22 short stories:
- “The Grand Tour” by Frank Roger
- “Saving God” by Jay Wilburn
- “How to Succeed in Academia” by K. A. Laity
- “Critical Thinking Skills” by James W. Hritz
- “The Unhappy Accident or Feelin’ Fine” by T. Fox Dunham
- “The Truth” by Jonathan Balog
- “You’re Toast” by E.E. King
- “The Joke’s on You” by Philip Simondet
- “It Takes Four to Tango” by Mike Sheedy
- “The Policy” by Thomas Messina
- “Riding” by Aric Zair
- “Corrective Action (or Illegal Discharge Legally Charged)” by Tony Wayne Brown
- “Dead Girls, Dying Girls” by James Dorr
- “Modern Science Has Yet to Find a Cure” by Michael Lee Smith
- “The Fountain of Relative Youth” by Christian A. Larsen
- “My Best Friend is a Robot” by Brady Gerber
- “Fido” by James Wymore
- “Responsibility is Key” by Rachael Durbin
- “Megastar Hopper” by Sue Lange
- “Dog. Girl. Armless Karaoke Maniac.” by Joseph McKinley
- “Nedserd” by Eli Wilde
- “A Tribute to Ernest Glipp” by C. M. Chapman
Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing also released my story, “The Funeral Portrait” in its most recent anthology, BLEED: A BOOK OF HOPE, now available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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