What's the most improbable but true thing about you?
I am (along with Jackie Chan) an Honorary Citizen of Seoul. The rest of my life is an extremely probable tissue of lies.

Why did you choose to submit to Horror Over the Handlebars?
I had submitted and been accepted for Obsidian Butterfly’s Necronomi-RomCom and enjoyed the process of writing that story including the Discord/Facebook universe OB has created. It is always more fun to be involved in projects that have a personal or community aspect to them. So, when this call went out, I started writing.^^
It’s probably worth noting I am also currently writing a submission for the “Deep Ones” anthology.

Tell us a little about your story, “No Rider in the Flesh and Bone” and its genesis.
Originally it was to be a story about a group of children – something like in Steven King’s IT. This approach was primarily due to a lack of imagination, but it gave me a place to start. I did know that I did not want to have a ‘plucky kids overcome horrible monster’ ending, so I began with that. It became clear to me that writing about a group of kids would push me past the wordcount, so I knocked it down to one protagonist and slightly recast the story as a kid trying to grow up and not being allowed to.
The hard part was trying to get the geography of the story right, and I spent quite a lot of time on Google Maps trying to get it right.

Tell us about “Forever Children” in Horror Over the Handlebars and what you liked about it.
It is wonderfully atmospheric, which is a good fit for its indeterminate, semi-erasure of an ending. The otherworldly tree, garden gnomes, and deep description of natural items such as bark sit in a balance against an equally plastic personal family story that the child seeks to redeem by being absorbed into his nightmare (with the proviso that the nightmare, by the end, seems not so nightmarish, beyond that ego death thing^^).

I’d be interested in a story about what, if anything, is on the other side of this ending.

If you could time travel, where would you go, what would you do, and why would you do that?
LOL… go back and tell my stupid young self to NOT sell my Apple stock when it hit $26/share.

Who would you bring back from the dead for one hour and what would you do with them?
The mother of my first Godchild. Just because I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye and she was a key influence and friend.

What's your favorite piece of art? Could be music, writing, sculpture, painting...
I have an original Ralph Steadman print, created for Hunter S. Thompson’s funeral, which I am quite fond of. Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson wrote texts that I find moving and complete, and am always happy to return to.

What are you most proud of creating?
Whatever I’m currently working on. I was very happy with the Korean Translated Literature Wikipedia Project, for which I created about 200 Wiki entries related to Korean fiction, authors, and publishing. Worked with the Korean government on that one.

What's next on your literary horizon?
Just more writing. I have started 4 short stories and am trying to discipline myself to working on them regularly.^^ I also have in mind an anthology about the future of Spokane (where I live), for which I have a few cover ideas and some spare ISBNs. My involvement with these Obsidian Butterfly anthologies resparked this idea.

Where can readers connect with you online?
My Amazon author page or my personal page. My Discord ID is brownacid.
The rest is silence…..