Queen of the Moon, etc

I'm the featured author this month at Apex Online, the electroverse analog of the science fiction/horror magazine Apex Digest. Among other things, they've posted an old interview I've linked before, a new review of Bittersweet Creek and Other Stories, and the first-ever webbified version of that chapbook's "exclusive" story, Men of Renown.

There's also a new story by me posted at the site. Queen of the Moon is a story I wrote as an oulipo sort of exercise that some friends and I did late last fall, for which the limitations were: short story of less than 2000 words, fits the description "sci fi ghost story," done by Friday. Not this Friday, though. Some Friday last fall.

If you think those limitations sound like contest rules, well, you'd be right. I gots third!

Comments

[Jason Sizemore]

*looks in Wikipedia*

Oulipo stands for "Ouvroir de littérature potentielle", which translates roughly as "workshop of potential literature". It is a loose gathering of French-speaking writers and mathematicians, and seeks to create works using constrained writing techniques. It was founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. Other notable members include novelists Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, and poet and mathematician Jacques Roubaud.

[Steph Burgis]

Woot! I loved "Men of Renown". Can't wait to read "Queen of the Moon"...

[Julia]

LOL - great commenters think alike:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo

[Jason Sizemore]

If there's one thing you gain from being friends with Christopher V Rowe, it is the knowledge of obscure, weird words.