Ten minutes to midnight notes

"When I tell people that I write short stories, a faint greyish glaze usually slides across their eyes, as if a dirigible were passing overhead."

—from "Confessions of an Unrepentant Short Story Writer"
Scott Bradfield,
Critical Quarterly, Vol. 52, no.2

Also, I took part in the latest SF Signal mindmeld, this one on SF and fantasy tropes that should be retired. Click here to see what I had to say: I've wasted my life.