GIANT ANTS!

Researchers nearly double the size of worker ants
ScienceMag.org

So where's my tie-in?

I began writing a tale of genetically engineered insects (not radiation. Not a toxic spill. Not nanobots. GMO? Yeah, GMO) in ROT YER WORLD back in 1996. I was serious about the science so I studied, edited, studied, added, studied, and groomed it until the varmints were scientifically viable - though non-existent. It didn't matter if my reader was a scientist who could confirm the possibility of my story (though that never hurts). It mattered to me that my story felt like it could happen.

It was published in 1998 at the now moribund Horrorfind.com short story section. RYW was republished in 2012 in my eBook collection of previously published tales, PERPETUAL BULLET, and then saw print for the first time in 2014.

Nearly 20 years later, my stories are coming true! Muh! Ha! Ha! Ha! etc.

"Rot Yer World" ...is richly atmospheric and creates a lot of tension... my favorite story in the collection."
- Nicholas Alan Tillemans, author of HARD BALL

"...if you relish stories that give you a shiver up your spine Perpetual Bullet is right up your alley."
- R.K. Finnell, author of THE PLAGUE SON

"Hey wait a minute!" you may say in outraged indignation, "This article is really about nothing more than you pimping your book!"

To which I'd remind you, What part of my website is not dedicated to pimping someone's work in books, comics, movies, or music? That's all I do here.

You got a problem with me occasionally mentioning my own work on my own website too?

Well? Do ya, Punk?

Ha! Ha! No I kid! You're okay!

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