Update: May 2020
As mentioned elsewhere, this blog is going on something of a permanent hiatus. I will come back and post more information here about the move, once I actually have something.
In the Meantime... You can always order some copies of the Trinity Anthology Project that I worked on through 2019. Originally conceived as an exploration of gender, Blue Forge Press gathered three male authors, three female authors, and three authors who identify as nonbinary, and gave them a monthly writing prompt. But as the stories arrived over the course of a year, truths emerged and a new, more authentic trinity was discovered.
Most of the stories I contributed are Ada stories, meaning the Ada you know: Strong, erudite, first person, but vulnerable as most humans are. Every month offered something new. (Especially February wherein she told someone else's story.)
For January, we travel to Hokkaido with Ada where she spent a winter as an ESL teacher. February follows the story of a young woman named Astra who learns the awful truths of her monastic education. March is an essay that riffs on Wallace Steven's "Sunday Morning" and in April you can follow Ada to Leipzig where a cantata of different narratives and genres considers the role of art in our lives.
The rest of the stories are incredibly varied as you can imagine nine different writers can be. So if you want to travel the world, stop by the Trinity Anthology series.
For January, we travel to Hokkaido with Ada where she spent a winter as an ESL teacher. February follows the story of a young woman named Astra who learns the awful truths of her monastic education. March is an essay that riffs on Wallace Steven's "Sunday Morning" and in April you can follow Ada to Leipzig where a cantata of different narratives and genres considers the role of art in our lives.
The rest of the stories are incredibly varied as you can imagine nine different writers can be. So if you want to travel the world, stop by the Trinity Anthology series.
January: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083PSZHD1
Update: July 2019
Ada's World has found a home at Blue Forge Press. In addition to The Nightingale's Stone and Small Events being republished (with all of the illustrations), I'm very pleased to announce that my new work, Hyperborea is also now available.
While Ada started out as a character in a "Magical Realist 17th Century Alternative History" with Les Sardines, she almost immediately started banging on the door of this world. And perhaps a few others! As "the Land Beyond the North Wind" Hyperborea's limits are only those of Ada's highly associative imagination.
Learn more.
If you're on the Kitsap Peninsula July 20th, stop by the Silverdale Mall for the Blue Forge Press Feast of Words. I will be there with other authors with books for sale. 1:00-8:00.
Short Fictions
Let Me Fly Away was originally published at Silverblade Magazine.The Slubburge Man, originally published in The Dark Fiction Spotlight.
The Ladies of Keldmere, originally published in Darker.
The Church of the Hidden Children originally published in Lisette's Tales of the Imagination.
Inaugural SarZine Mandala by Ben Davis
SarZines
From 2008 through 2014 I was very fortunate to have worked on a series of collective writing journals with Les Sardines. The Voice of Ada was already quite clear in these volumes and who knows, you still may find some of these out there.
-David Mecklenburg
Debut: Grendeliads
Cat Spritzer: The Seven Dances of Cat Spritzer
Habitations:
Heroes: Divers Heroes
Lost Maps: Carpetographies
Ghosts: Eponymous
Naked: Eponymous
Mirrors: Mirrormidions
SarZines Recollected: A limited edition collection of all of the above plus "Swan."
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