Genital Grinder (24 page)

This collection gave me the chance to go back and expand some of the ideas in these stories. In some cases they are a little longer than in their original (or intended) publication, while others are almost half again as long. A lot of names have been changed because I had a bad habit of using the same names a lot of times, and it was painfully obvious when the stories were all put together.

I hope to be back soon with other unseemly concepts, “bad ideas” in the grand Travis Bickle tradition. In my bios from publications, I used to tell readers to email me with the subject line “ARE YOU MORBID?” I’m still a big Celtic Frost fan (finally got to see them on the Monotheist tour), so you may do that at [email protected]. About 8 years since writing the oldest story here, the answer would still seem to be . . . yes.

RYAN HARDING
is the co-author of the
Partners in Chyme
chapbook with Edward Lee. His stories have also appeared in the anthologies
In Laymon’s Terms
and
Excitable Boys
and the chapbooks
A Darker Dawning
and
A Darker Dawning 2: Reign in Black.
Right now, he is probably either watching a film involving strange camera angles and a black-gloved killer or thinking about watching one.