No, the title does not refer to a new geriatric remake of the classic Duran Duran tune. I and the rest of Altered Fluid will appear this coming Saturday the 5th on Jim Freund’s show “Hour of the Wolf” on WBAI radio. The show’s on 5-7 a.m. Listen if you’re up, and if not, they will have a PodCast-esque version of the show available later in the day.

This time on the chopping block, Mercurio D. Rivera’s story “The Fifth Daniel”.

If you haven’t checked it out yet, our last appearance is available for download on my Writing page.

This isn’t the best photo of the Earth from space you’ll find, but it means something to me. It’s from a packet that my grandfather gave me when I was a teenager. I believe it is a NASA press release from immediately following the Apollo 11 moon mission of 1969.

So, a shot of Earth on Earth Day. And to quote Wally Schirra, who flew many missions for NASA, including an earlier Apollo 7:

“I left Earth three times. I found no place else to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.”

Matt Kressel has posted the interview I did with Stephen Segal for Sybil’s Garage No. 4. Check it out. It seems odd for me to take credit for this as an official “interview”, as the questions are simply based off of conversations Stephen and I have been having since we first me two years ago.

My only regret is that one of my questions may imply that I consider Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer winning THE ROAD as science fiction. It is, of course, nothing of the sort.

Just a photo of some grass today. It looks spring-like, which is a lie. I took the photo in a florist’s workspace a week or so ago. Anything this green, and found outdoors, would have died from exposure this month.  Now I know why the old move to Florida (but I’ve already lived there, so that isn’t an option).

There’s about a month left in classes for this semester, so no time to write anything further. Must get back to dissecting Macbeth.

Sybil’s Garage No. 4 has been released. Besides doing the general slush reading and corresponding on the stories we received, I also conducted an interview with Stephen Segal of Wildside Press. Stephen has some great ideas on the business of speculative fiction and media in general, and I think anyone interested in the genre will get something from what he has to say.

On the story front, of us who act as editors at Sybil’s get very involved in the story selection process. While we were open for submissions this past issue I found myself exceptionally busy with school and work, so I still have not read most of the content of this issue. I can say, however, that I was lucky enough to be assigned as the first reader for “Seas of the World” by Ekaterina Sedia. It’s one of the best stories I’ve read in a long time, and I was really pleased when it was placed in the issue. An incredible piece of writing from a fellow ‘Jersyian (is that even a word?).

Matt Kressel has done a kick ass job on the cover and layout of this issue. Past issues looked great, but this one is truly a monumental step forward.

The table of contents:

Fiction
“After the War” by Leah Bobet
“On Death and the Deuce” by Richard Bowes
“Pairings” by John Bowker
“Means of Communication” by Barbara Krasnoff
“Jetsam” by Livia Llewellyn
“An Appetite for Love” by Cat Rambo
“Seas of the World” by Ekaterina Sedia
“Translucence” by Rowena Southard
“Strangeness” by Steve Rasnic Tem

Poetry
“Arrive on Time,” by Bruce Boston
“If the Shoe Fits,” by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
“Frayed Worlds,” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Wendy Rathbone
“Farewell,” by Jaime Lee Moyer
“One of the Reasons,” by Kristine Ong Muslim
“The Answer Compounded,” by J.C. Runolfson
“Disparate Parts,” by Rachel Swirsky
“Flesh into Sand,” by JoSelle Vanderhooft

Interviews
Jeffrey Ford interviewed by Matthew Kressel
Stephen Segal interviewed by Devin Poore