It is with pleasure that I announce the sale of my short story “Uncommon Ally” to Penumbra Magazine. “Uncommon Ally” will appear in their May, 2013 Ocean issue. If you like your beaches post-apocalyptic and with a surf-carving dorsal fin, you may want to pick up a copy. According to Penumbra’s excellent editor, Celina Summers, competition for this was fierce. As fierce as a great white shark? Probably not. Celina also informed me this was Penumbra’s biggest issue yet. How fitting that the theme is a substance that covers 71% of the Earth’s surface.

The inspiration for this story came from finding shark teeth along the beaches of the east coast. Always fascinating for a young boy.

I’m very pleased with these last two acceptances. It’s been a rough winter-one of the roughest I can remember. Not to mention I started my winter in early October by camping in the Northern Rockies. I was eating off snowy picnic tables and boulders. But the weather isn’t exactly why things have been rough…more like sick or passing pets (Thor). Either way, we must forge ahead.

A few people have asked me for a photo of the office, and I suppose every writer should have an “I’m at work” photo, so here it is, beard and all. Thanks for reading, and here’s to a healthy, warm spring.