You Know You Want It: Outpouring

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I'm so happy to have my short story, "The Photograph," included in Outpouring: Typhoon Yolanda Relief Anthology, a collection edited by the brilliant, and apparently tireless, Dean Alfar. Let me count the ways:

• All proceeds go to the Philippine Red Cross to assist those who continue to suffer in the wake of Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan. As many have pointed out, news of the typhoon has slipped from the front page, but recovery will take years. I just performed a cursory google news search, and the last news report was filed nearly a month ago.

• Feast your eyes on this table of contents! What a sexy international line-up! What? You think I'm trying to up the page views by including the word sexy here? Sexy, sexy, sexy. So what if I am? It's the sexy thing to do:

• “The Wordeaters” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz 
• “Invisible Empire of Ascending Light” by Ken Scholes
• “The Photograph” by Veronica Montes
• “A Moment in Time” by Charie D. La Marr
• “A Gentlemen’s Agreement” by Susan S.Lara
• “X” by Karissa Chen
• “Cunning Syncronicity” by Berrien C. Henderson
• “Godsend” by Joel Pablo Salud
• “Ondoy” by Laura McPhee-Browne
• “Rescuing the Rain God” by Kate Osias
• “The Wish Head” by Jeffrey Ford
• “Flash Forward” by Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz
• “Where Sky and Sea Meet” by Dan Campbell
• “Arrow” by Barry King
• “Finding Those Who Are Lost” by Celestine Trinidad
• “Synchronicity” by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
• “We’re All Stories in the End” by Matthew J. Rogers
• “Silverio and the Eidolon” by Vincent Michael Simbulan
• “Tinkerers” by Jay Wilburn
• “Finding” by David B. Ramirez
• “Ikan Berbudi (Wise Fish)” by Jason Erik Lundberg
• “Pilar Escheverria” by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
• “Scraps” by Michael Haynes
• “Freeborn in the City of Fallacies” by Andrew Drilon
• “Storm Warning” by Lilian Csernica
• “The Nameless Ones” by Gabriela Lee
• “Whispers” by Grant J. McMaster
• “Highway Run” by Alexander Marcos Osias
• “Black Sun” by Todd Nelsen
• “Life at the Lake’s Shore” by Alex Shvartsman
• “Aliens” by Fiona Mae Villamor
• “Little Italy” by Isa Lorenzo
• “Discipline” by Rebecca McFarland Kyle
• “Unmaking” by Julie C. Day
• “Fresh Fruit” by Yvette Tan
• “The Sparrows of Climaco Avenue” by Kenneth Yu
• “Gellen’s Retirement Plan” by Tim Sullivan
• “When We Were Witches” by Nikki Alfar
• “All the Little Gods We Are” by John Grant
• “Tuba Knight” by Cesar Miguel G. Escaño

• It only costs $3.99, and it's 544 pages of storytelling goodness. 544 pages!

• I get to share space once again with my friend and mentor, that most elegant Lady of Letters, Cecilia Brainard.

• It just feels good to have a new story out in the world. Though I'm working on it, my story output is meager by almost anyone's standards, which means I have fewer shots to share my work. More on this soon!

Thanks once again to Dean for including me, and hello-and-so-nice-to-meet-you to the other contributors. Oh, look!—Another link for your convenience!