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Erik T. Johnson: Proser - Poet - Performer

 Morpheus Tales Best Weird Fiction #4 (Every Corpse is a Saint)

8/23/2014

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It is darker than the noise in my head, and I feel like my skeleton's made of choked-on bones. Also, the great Morpheus Tales has just released Morpheus Tales: The Best Weird Fiction #4, and I'm proud to report that it contains my story Some Things Aren't Anything alongside the various productions of fine auctorial company, including--best of all--my buddy and fellow wordsmith John F.D. Taff, represented here by his excellent tale Sharp Edges.

This is the second time Taff and I have appeared together (the first being in Box of Delights), and luckily I KNOW it won't be the last, as we're collaborating with superior beings J. Daniel Stone and Joe Schwartz on a novella collection, about which, more when poetry and incantations stop stepping on my prose.

Morpheus Tales: The Best Weird Fiction #4 is now available for Kindle on Amazon . . . and I have heard it whispered that it will soon incarnate in the bodies of dead trees, with colorful covers above and below like an envelope of burial dirt in a . . . O whatever I have no idea where to go next with this sentence. It sucks. Started off with a vague intimation of visionary exploration and then just crapped out, it got awkward, I lost interest. I think, therefore I don't know a damn thing. My Doom Disorder kicking in?

Furthermore:

Baptism of the living
Is a crude imitation 
Of that true baptism
Which rightfully belongs 
T
o the dead. 
Anyone can get sprinkled
W
ith a little water 
Easily wiped away. 
But the fresh cadaver--
Her commitment  
To her new faith 
Is inexorable. 
N
o test, however harsh,
Could ever break her will. 
E
very corpse is a Saint.

See what I mean?








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John F.D. Taff link
8/25/2014 10:40:40 am

I'd forgotten we were in this together, even after getting it! Excellent! And as always, an excellent story from you!

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