You can find the December 2012 issue of Penumbra Magazine at Magzter and Penumbra’s own site. Excerpt from “Seven Fish for Sarah”:

The mountains of Northern California are my home. Life is a rich bounty, but it is not a hoarding contest. I do not need, nor care for a Hummer or a yacht. I do not care to invest in the stock market. None of us really do post-Neutronin.

Sometimes, for the teacher to teach her lesson, she has to wipe the chalkboard clean.

Also, The Old Weird South Anthology has just been released. You can pick it up at Amazon, Smashwords, or Barnes and Noble.

Excerpt from my story “Storm Fronts”:

The morning air tingled with the promise of fresh venison. He rode his ATV to the deer stand pre-dawn, the engine puttering, one headlight searching in the silhouettes of trees. Bats ravaged insects above the canopy, and a flying squirrel made its last stunt before light, chortling as it glided. Billowing mist swallowed the forest, masking the trunks of older trees and obscuring young spruce. Jansen listened to the woods, the pileated woodpecker hammering for grubs, the ruffed grouse thumping its wings. To the west, a portentous black sky. Lightning flashed sideways from a monstrous thunderhead. Seventy yards behind him, chunks of hail rattled against branches and leaves, inching closer. The Birth-Mother. Sustenance. Fallen thousands of times before and a thousand times to come….

It’s been an extremely busy holiday season, but I’ll take it.