{"id":2476,"date":"2014-06-02T07:35:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T21:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2016-04-17T23:07:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T13:07:31","slug":"showdown-now-available-at-electric-spec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=2476","title":{"rendered":"Showdown now available at Electric Spec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p id=\"top\" \/>As reported <a title=\"Short Story Sale \u2013 Electric Spec\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=2464\">earlier in the month<\/a>, I recently sold my short story\u00a0<em>Showdown<\/em> to the good people at <em><a title=\"Electric Spec website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.electricspec.com\" target=\"_blank\">Electric Spec<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m pleased to say that the new edition (<a title=\"Electric Spec Volume 9 Issue 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.electricspec.com\/issues\/volume-9-issue-2-may-31-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 9, Issue 2<\/a>) has gone live and\u00a0<em>Showdown<\/em> is <a title=\"Showdown on Electric Spec\" href=\"http:\/\/www.electricspec.com\/issues\/volume-9-issue-2-may-31-2014\/showdown-by-mark-webb.asp\" target=\"_blank\">available to read online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If semi-urban Australian fantasy with an elderly protagonist isn&#8217;t quite your style, you can still check out the other excellent offering which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Girl with the Crooked Spine<\/em>\u00a0by Jason Sturner &#8211;\u00a0an unusual fantasy about a unique girl and a misfit boy who meet in the Field Museum in Chicago.<\/li>\n<li><em>A Learned Man<\/em> by Melinda Brasher is a fantasy\u00a0inspired by <em>La Leyenda de Bolsa Salgado,<\/em>\u00a0an El Salvadorian folktale.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Khuminay and the Axe-Wielding Psycho<\/em> by Barton Paul Levenson. In it, there&#8217;s a creature named Khuminay and there&#8217;s at least one murder via an axe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Between the Covers<\/em> by Kathryn Yelinek\u00a0<\/span>takes place partly on Earth and partly on another\u00a0world and explore the topic: what do you do if your memories of yourself aren&#8217;t reliable?<\/li>\n<li><em>Forgetting<\/em> by David E. Hughs is another memory related story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">On the non-fiction side is the\u00a0&#8216;Spec Fic in Flicks&#8217; column by Marty Mapes. This edition the topic is &#8220;An Alien Perspctive on the Human Condition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">This edition also contains an interview with author Brian McClellan. McClellan writes epic fantasy, specifically,\u00a0<i>The Powder Mage Trilogy<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">I hope you enjoy\u00a0<em>Showdown\u00a0<\/em>and the rest<i>\u00a0<\/i>this edition of\u00a0<em>Electric Spec.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"top\"><\/p>Hi,\n<p>Welcome to Mark Webb&#8217;s author website. At this point the site is rather sparse &#8211; I&#8217;ve only recently started writing and there isn&#8217;t a lot to show for it right now. You can check out\u00a0<a title=\"All About Mark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=11\">my biography<\/a>, see &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[135,21,16,15],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-electric-spec","tag-news-2","tag-publications-2","tag-specfic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions\/2486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}