Read Think of a Name For It and Have You Quite Finished? at Verbsap. "Plays with language and rests squarely on the line between clarity and confusion. The two sentences, You wouldn't jump in my grave so quickly and Then he zeroed the scale, turning the dial with a pointing finger, as though he was removing the weight of the previous owner, are worth the price of admission alone; they're terrific. And, as an editor, I love the obsession with the almost sensible origined." That's Verbsap's editor, Laurie Seidler.

Spotlight author in Eclectica, Winter 06 with Swing Naked, How They Looked at the Sun, and Roads That Go On and On. There Has to Be a Better Balance is in the Summer 06 issue. Three stories that will lead you along strange ways: Nobody Told the Horse, I Hadn't Even Started, and Not Your Problem are at Surprising Stories, along with They Said I Should Go Home, tomorrow's world today, and vice-versa. Bug Infestation is out at Fiction on the Web. Ian Duncan Smith's powerfully understated glimpse into the loneliness of Christmas. Fill Her Belly, Boy is in Prose Toad Winter 06. Zoom Products, Happy Bunnies, and Live Technician are at Silverthought. Check out stories and poems at Bewildering Stories. Alien Abduction With Humour appeared in Flashshot.

Hold It Up For Ridicule

Ian Duncan Smith