Patrick Johanneson

Which short-short story should Craig and I pitch at the Gimli Film Fes­ti­val? We’re let­ting you decide!

One take­away: poetry is where the money is, accord­ing to my sin­gle data point on the topic.

From my zombies-in-Canada work in progress: …The pre­ferred term for those that have under­gone the trans­for­ma­tion in ques­tion is “revenant”. The word revenant should not be cap­i­tal­ized. Unless you are directly quot­ing a source, do not use the pejo­ra­tive terms “zom­bie” or “undead”. Both these terms carry a sub­stan­tial seman­tic pay­load. If they are used, …

The last thing I wrote today: The road split, right at the edge of the play­ground, forked into three gravel roads, each lead­ing deeper into a wooded cabin area. A sign at the fork had arrows that named each sub­di­vi­sion: LABRADOR, GREEN GABLES, and BLUE ROCKS. “Down here,” said Arnie, lead­ing them down the GREEN GABLES …

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Moose Jaw to be born? …for pos­si­ble inclu­sion in my nascent zombies-in-Canada short story.