HMS Mangled Treasure: The Rescue of Mr. Spaghetti
My charming and talented wife has an announcement and a bit of a boast.
Whenever an authoress gets the cover illo of a magazine, her street cred among authors goes up, and she regains lost sanity points (SAN) lowered during the creative writing process or accidentally viewing a shoggoth. Those are the rules both in the CALL OF CTHULHU role playing game, and in the writing profession. Making the cover is good juju:
My short story, “HMS Mangled Treasure: The Rescue of Mr. Spaghetti”, has come out! It is in SciPhi Magazine, Issue #5.
Here is a 5 star review from Amazon:
Could not be better! The stories are very good, of course. The excellent Beyond the Mist by Ben Zwycky continues. HMS Mangled Treasure by L. Jagi Lamplighter is also an excellent combo of tough broad straight from a film noir, whimsy and Peter Pan: “a whole can of whup on your sorry ass” might be my new signature block.
I am embarrassed to say that I had to go back and check my manuscript, but, yes, I did write: “a whole can of whup on your sorry ass”
The story concerns a young mother trying to retreive her stolen car from faery pirates. Mr. Spaghetti is the favorite toy of her autistic son…which just happened to be in the car when it was stolen.
For those who are familiar with my Prospero’s Daughter series, this story also stars Mab, the Aerie One detective from Prospero, Inc. (See below)
Mab – hard at work.
Here is the information for the electronic copies of SciPhi, Issue #5. I will post the info for the paper copies when it comes out in a few days.
Amazon Link
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WRADVL6Castalia House Link
http://castaliahouse.com/downloads/sci-phi-journal-5/
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
