For such a typically listless segment of the winter season, I’m grateful to have several irons in various fires. In an attempt to catch up, I’m circling back around to an update from Dim Shores, who recently released a cover draft for their forthcoming project, Looming Low, Volume II, a follow-up to the award-winning Looming Low Volume I (2017). The design comes courtesy of the ever-brilliant Yves Tourigny.

Sustained is my gratitude for landing a piece in this anthology. My story, “Lovenest,” will appear alongside an oppressively impressive roster of colleagues (alphabetically listed — actual order TBD):

• Matthew M. Bartlett – “The Cryptic Jape”
• Nadia Bulkin – “Your Heart is a House on Fire”
• Brian Evenson – “Vigil in the Inner Room”
• Kurt Fawver – “Radius Unknown”
• Gemma Files – “Bb Minor”
• Richard Gavin – “The Intercessor”
• Craig L. Gidney – “Impz”
• Cody Goodfellow – “Serve & Protect”
• Mike Griffin – “We Spend Weekends With Dad”
• Michael Kelly – “Dead but Dreaming Still”
• Gwendolyn Kiste – “To the Progeny Forsaken”
• Anya Martin – “The Other Cat”
• S.P. Miskowski – “Across the Darkness”
• David Peak – “Zones Without Names”
• Erica Ruppert – “Ex Astris”
• Clint Smith – “Lovenest”
• Simon Strantzas – “Still Packed”
• Jeffrey Thomas – “Strangler Fig”
• Brookelynne Warra – “We Don’t Live Here Anymore”
• Kaaron Warren – “Songs We Sing at Sea”
• A.C. Wise – “Into the Green”
• Alvaro Zinos-Amaro – “Undo”