Today, I got a set of JPEGS from Alberto Pessoa, one of the artists involved with IF-X #2. About six months ago, he had started an anthology with another friend of his, all set around a town called “Purgatory,” located somewhere in the Old West. Each author covered a story somewhere within 100 years of the town’s history; mine is set somewhere around 1910–the reference to the Nobel Prize is a giveaway. That said, mine was probably going to be the only science-fiction western in the bunch.
Well, as it stands, the anthology isn’t happening, but Alberto worked up my story, “Hard Rain.” Here’s a sneak peek. Click on images to enlarge them–you can do this at least twice to get better views.
The big question is, do we publish it as a one-shot? Save it for a collection of shorts? Submit it for an anthology? Put it up somewhere pay-for-download?
Please tell me what you think.
–Michael