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ght pressing the wet place to my face and i actually slept when i woke mark and scent had flown see also to rosie death coming to rosie thy will be done death came posted by anna tambour at 10 53 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 08 june 2025 new tomorrow by cody goodfellow the perfect companion today only last night i watched that flaccid serving of spaghetti o s battle los angeles little thinking that the next day it would be freshened by the heroes having to fight off not humanoids but pogo s us in masks history is like the thing i stepped on on the way to junior high when i was fifteen i thought it was a wad of gum i couldn t dislodge it till band practice when i successfully scraped some off on the music stand brown furred skin blackened with dried blood what happened to the shoes i don t know but the feeling of the thing being stepped on and clinging to me the vision of it hanging on the slender metal leg all in the past but through memory and the gift of horror ever present what could better suit history that refuses to confine itself to the past than the present scenario starting in la a ragtag people and a few mil grunts fighting for the future of civilization where do you fit in this and how do you cope do you doomscroll escape try to ignore i say try because no one can escape instead i recommend a companion new tomorrow by cody goodfellow i ve been carrying it around for weeks like soldiers at the front did the book of poetry against the chest new tomorrow takes place in a past that is all so present you can smell its blood i don t know how long it took to write but i do know that he has to have transported himself and lived in this version of time and place for every time i checked he s as faithful to a parallel history and it s all so immediate and fresh i couldn t help thinking he must have made it up or he was wrong but he s more accurate than movietone news yet fearless the government they voted for is threatening to mow them down and they ve got scab vigilantes running around spreading conspiracy theories so the only question is which side are you on his cavernous voice seemed to come from just behind her ear even as she cautiously approached him still itching to use her lightning projector i sympathize with the workers plight but i m on the side of law and order she said so you stand with the factory owners the pinkerton mercenaries the hastily sworn in deputies and soon the army they don t need you you ll have to find your fun somewhere else i don t do this for sport to protect your investments then he threw back his head and laughed oh i know all about you i can see right through your mask but i don t need to all that shiny gear didn t come on a worker s salary and it makes one wonder if you d have taken up this game at all if america had foxhunting but it s just more fun isn t it to hunt men it was putting it too broadly to say the masked vigilante craze had started a few years back it starts in 1918 on the western front and ends in 1932 in nyc it s unashamedly political yet never self righteously so drop your gun or i ll libel you to smithereens the mil tech is fun and believable there s a helluva plot but not artificially twisted just as startling as reality and it s so multifaceted many of her peers were little more than publicity stunts to sell toys and newspapers others were exploited precisely because they were unwilling or without the means to fend off commercial use of their name and likeness his action is visual not verbal and he can be downright lyrical though he never writes to see himself write the flying car floated away from the pavilion like an untethered balloon amid the scurrying men and women she could pick out dozens sleepwalking after the music the flying car veered south with a flock of nypd autogyros on its tail passing over the south ferry terminal and the human bombs trailed after there s more to defend and fight than any respectable novel needs but these are heart sickening times so the extras here are welcome defibrillating jolts and there s an actual alien as a companion new tomorrow will i m sure be sickly necessary for mental health too until humans are a species too silly to be contemplated seriously as having existed one of the great pleasures is the quotes at the start of every chapter wittily numbered by mike dubisch whose art throughout makes this a deluxe production at a dimestore price get it published by oddness 484 pages this is the official description much more understandable than my dribble that doesn t do justice to it as the thrill it is entertainment with a brain and heart overview as america reels in the depins of the great depression munitions heiress matilda lynch battles gangsters and anarchists in the armor of the silver sentry never suspecting that her most dangerous enemy is right behind her petty thief spider macgowan escaped jail but was forced to don a cursed mask to become the infamous white devil but using evil to destroy evil will leave him powerless before the greatest threat the world has ever known joined by kid amoeba a single celled invader from an alien world and the haywire gang identical triplets who wreak havoc on all they touch these unlikely heroes will become enemies of the nation they protect when they discover the unspeakable truth behind a miraculous invention that promises to lift america s elite out of economic despair and let them colonize the stars swashbuckling pulp action and mind boggling mysteries await all who dare to explore the strange world of new tomorrow posted by anna tambour at 9 49 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 06 october 2023 why witches an interview with zig zag claybourne talking about his newest novel breath warmth and dream book one of the mother khumalo trilogy but first the blogger s privilege of intrusion you know that ennui of reading when you think i m past it no fiction can work its magic on me again i was deep in its grip when i noticed neon lights there was something so deliciously abnormal about that cover i roused myself enough to get into it but still expected no more than a one page stand instead i felt the same thrill that coursed through me the first time i read gogol s dead souls the only diminishment since for both is the frisson of discovery i still hope this brilliant satire gets discovered but i was so intrigued by its unknown author who could mop the floor with the works of updike and roth as well as that of most current satirists sneerists that i swan dived into the brothers jetstream leviathan holy hell this one vied to knock my other favourite novel ilya ilf and eugene petrov s little golden calf from its pedestal i wasn t ready for it the brothers struck me like a bolt of lightning rooted in a solar flare it didn t take the brothers jetstream book 2 afro puffs are the antennae of the universe to confirm these were written by one of those writers who is amongst the half dozen in a century who deserve to last and the characters so many characters in others fiction would walk the picket lines if they could they all work for nothing which they all expect but so many don t get no respect claybourne s get more than that utter freedom and they ve got a mouth on them desiree quicho for instance star of afro puffs so their dialogue is as fresh as their attitudes it doesn t matter what claybourne s writing characters and stories are unflinching and inspiring in ways that are so uncommercial they remind this reader why writing can be not only still worth reading but crucial in making life worthwhile he never plays the jester angle nor panders to wishes to ignore and self indulgently escape as for tragedy voyeurs they d starve on his fiction in every book and story zig zag claybourne celebrates the brashness of bravery kindness and joy and in doing so wields the most effective weapons of all so to the latest i ve been lucky enough to read not because he asked me but because i asked him his latest novel breath warmth and dream book one of a trilogy that should have been fought over by the biggies but as i advised him when i read it people have had their souls healed and have learnt from everything you ve written that isn t considered valued and instead rancid relations paraded as if we love to be dumped into cesspools or else we can t feel alive and so it came to pass the rejections were i love it but and so dear reader it s up to us there s a kickstarter he s been convinced to launch so we can get this book into our hands screens and hearts and because people love to know motivations he s answered this grilling why witches mother khumalo herself says in breath warmth and dream magick doesn t require ignorance to be magick do you know what she means by that and how do you know that you know what she thinks there s this puzzling attitude that knowledge makes something less special and that a feeling of specialness is what s wanted from magic i think this follows from the ignorance is bliss school or it s not magic if you know how it works but the thing is we can never have total knowledge of anything so why not increase knowledge in order to work with what we ve got to me that s the whole nature of magic particularly with the kinds of witches breath warmth and dream imagines ignorance becomes a control mechanism for domination rather than harmony mother khumalo thinks entirely opposite of ignorance especially since magic itself is a tangle of learned skills there was no way she would have allowed me to write her any other way have you seen instances of magic so much of what we see and experience remains unexplained to us but i ve definitely felt magic in the trailing of fingertips along the skin of my inner arm how it both energizes me and simultaneously calms me things appear disappear and change around us all the time we have the feeling we re surrounded by more magic than society tends to admit magic is the understanding of life pieced together let me quote a passage to you bog s hands went to tug his breeches the lukewarm water of the tub would do him nicely oh dear tourmaline noted aye he s always showing off his buttocks when the children aren t around said grucca natural healing and whatnot she was taken with the play of his back muscles despite herself upper and much lower he climbed into the tub leaned back with his arms over the sides and presented his face s closed eyelids to the sky he didn t seem angry so tourmaline took this as an elaborate yes that he would talk with khumalo warriors and witches were beyond dramatic you deftly use words but like your action scenes this one is typical of you in its balzackian realism honoré de balzac considered one of the founders of believable characters in european literature your dialogue particularly is so sparkling it could burn noses but it doesn t read as forced but as the logical outcome of conditions you seem to be channeling yet you don t live in a cave but both your the brothers jetstream series and your mother khumalo short story and the kickstarting novel have a peculiarly rich intensity to them as if the moving hand is your own but worked by strings plied by each character between the covers can you explain what s happening aren t your characters supposed to be the puppets in kabuki theater there s a contract between audience and production see but don t see the kurogo stagehands dressed in black who interact with the actors or stage elements but are not part of the story that s me writing especially with dialogue kurogo leaves room for imaginative surprise characters need to move through the plot yes but when a voice comes off as too aware of their story it s more spot lit marionette operator than immersive experience my dialogue starts stops merges splits apart same as in life how magical were literary influences on you my writing influences showed me what was possible they pushed me to do more my greatest influences came from authors who stepped outside constrictions to exhibit a sense of play toni morrison douglas adams percival everett hell even shakespeare influences are best when they excite imaginations i saw writers doing unusual things and i loved it your favorite literary fantasies to go to dinner without checking my bank account book wise dune which i always read as more fantasy than science fiction one of my favorite books ever the alchemists of kush by minister faust blends egyptian myths with modern immigrant life in edmonton the twice drowned saint by c s e cooney is a recent fav because any book that blends biblically terrifying angels with the feminine energy of mad max fury road is a permanent win the beautiful short story the sweet in the empty by tade thompson is an entire epic in less than 25 pages how does it feel to get rejected by the big new york publishers turn around and do a kickstarter and within two days out earn a typical traditional publishing advance it s a wild strange thing the big publishing houses tend to be lords of chaos thirty people within the editorial departments will love something one will say no and that s the end of that thing crowdfunding is nearly a direct line from creator to audience the whole experience is less about product and more about the excitement of potential i ve backed a number of projects simply because i wanted the energy behind a campaign to reach as far into the world as possible even without backing for a reward i ll back because i want folks to succeed i ll buy afterward because i want folks to thrive this being my first kickstarter it s done wonderfully wonderful feels good you ve written in several genres from sf to fantasy to inspirational why do you like genre jumping it s that same thrill i got from watching chadwick boseman all light to him illuminate different aspects of real life via his roles hero villain genius action drama levity i suppose with writing reading being such a mental endeavor the claim that readers will get confused discourages jumping although genre blending is a huge thing you wrote sci fi and now you re doing comedy under the same name wait wait a fantasy about witches whaaaat yet we know conventional wisdom in publishing tends to be about as wise as wet socks so for me variety is the spice writers have lots of pressures these days from writing to promoting to being a public figure but you often talk about the importance of joy it always comes back to joy why is this important to you without joy in what we do there s no life or spark and without a spark there s no real connection to me everything we do from being in love to baking a helluva good pie to righting the wrongs in life is a means to connect ourselves to being better together we as individuals we as a species joy in what we do is that point to point connection for me joy is in knowing there s a real conversation to be had that only the writer and 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