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About Stephen:
I don't know: I grew up in Texas, live here still. Have never seen a whale, either from a distance or up close. I write more than's healthy, maybe. Have somehow made it across thirty-six years already. Not very good at video games, but fair at basketball. I would like to use the word 'pleniform' someday, and not in reference to an intake manifold. Sometimes I wish I were born five hundred years ago, so I could see things before fences and roads, but then, other times, I'll pull into a convenience store, push a button for 44 ounces of fizzing dr pepper, and man, I'm glad to be here, now. I've jumped off more tall things than I probably ever should have. I spend a lot of time being scared of things, and have what feels like the wrong idea that, if I can watch and read enough horror, and write enough of the bad stuff down, that it won't get to me anymore. I once ran a long way in front of a lot of dogs in the nighttime, and finally had to spend the night on top of the first roof I got to. I've had snake venom in me, for whatever that's worth. Have had a spider lay an egg in me too, when I fell asleep in the pen with my steer. Have stood in a melting field of snow and felt the ground shake under me and known that this is it, the world's ending, only to have a wall of horses come pounding up over the rise in their winter coats, their eyes wild, tails matted with slush. Have seen bad things happen too. Love to read theoretical physics, but can't quite follow the math. Dream that someday, in the Star Trek future I'm holding my breath for, some jumpsuited guy or girl might carry one of my books onto a grimy interstellar ship, and then leave it in some backwater port an impossible number of light years away, for another traveler to find, and maybe read, nod to him or herself that yeah, that's it all right.

Right now, I guess, my main plan is to get another pair of White's Boots, though, by hook or crook or whatever. I keep waiting for either of my other pairs to finally wear out, but, I don't know: it's not a thing White's Boots seem very good at, wearing out. With jeans--Carhartt's, say, which I've got way too many of--not wearing out's a good thing. And I always thought it would be with boots. And maybe it is. That doesn't stop me from wanting more, though.

Anyway, the facts, the stuff maybe not already bullet-pointed in these boxes all around here: I write fiction. Five books published so far:

The Fast Red Road--A Plainsong
All the Beautiful Sinners
The Bird is Gone: a .."text-decoration:strikethrough;">Manifesto
Bleed Into Me: A Book of Stories
Demon Theory

More info &etc at demontheory.net, I suppose. And, I'll see if I can't get pics of the covers up here somehow:

Who I'd like to meet:

Fiction Sample

HANSOM IS
I was the first one to start painting eyes on the back of my horse's blinders. Soon enough Tedlow's gelding was wearing sunglasses, though, then Martinov's dun was sporting a stovepipe hat, and when Dominguez ordered that custom Spanish bit with the hole bored into it for a cigar (off-center, of course), I just held my hands up and turned around in my seat. On the back of my newly-shaved head, though, was a greasepaint smile, a pair of eyes, a nose that had been hard to get right in my series of five a.m. mirrors, but worth it, too. I tell my passengers that I'm a ventriloquist, talking without my lips, see, then stare lidlessly right at them for the rest of the ride, daring them to push me farther. By the end of the day, Martinov has two dummy arms spidering out of his side, holding the reins for him while he points to landmarks, and Tedlow's killed himself, his horse running wide-nostrilled through the streets, and then the magnesium horse shoes Domingez ordered finally come special delivery, and her Wally's hooves spark with each step like he's walking on fire, like we all are, and I feel the back of my scalp contract in a smile, because we have the whole world before us, and then when a pair of hands cup over my eyes it just feels so right that I let the reins go slack and follow my horse into the night, both of us blind with wonder.
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