Even the weird ones can find a home

[swan_tower]

A while back, I wrote a 2000-word second-person present-tense story about filling out an application form. Having done so, I stared at it and wondered where the hell I would ever sell it.

The answer, it turns out, is Electric Velocipede, a quirky and well-respected magazine edited by John Klima. Glancing at their fiction, I can see a story by Scott William Carter that's in the second person and present tense, so maybe it's not much of a surprise, eh? I'm very happy to see it placed so well -- oh, let's admit it; I'm happy to see it placed at all. It's a weird enough story that I had very few ideas about where to send it that wouldn't just be a random shot in the dark.

I will, as always, give people a heads-up when it actually goes into print.