I heard from Nic Wilkinson at Insomnia that Robert M. Heske was putting together an anthology book featuring both comics and short stories based around the 2012 myths.  He specifically wanted a short story about what would happen the day after the cataclysmic events of the 21st of December, 2012 . So I knocked up a story and he’s bought it for the book.

The Seeds Of Time will appear, along with an accompanying illustration, in 2012: Final Prayer.

Due out sometime towards the end of the year. Should be a good book.

Still lots of debate as to whether this one’s real or not but a good’un nonetheless.

It was mentioned in Time magazine in November 1943. “The autojector can also keep a dog’s heart beating outside its body, has kept a decapitated dog’s head alive for hours—the head cocked its ears at a noise and licked its chops when citric acid was smeared on them.”

I remember seeing this book laid out on a table of half-price bargains downstairs in the big Easons in Dublin when I was ten or eleven.  I was there with my dad.  I’d already read his tattered copy of Alan and Sally Landsburg’s In Search Of Myths and Monsters so this was right up my street. That was over twenty years ago. I can’t remember why I didn’t buy it, or at least try to pester him into buying it for me.

I’ve had that cover image lodged in my brain since that day and I don’t think a month has gone by that I haven’t thought of it and wondered what it was called.

I found the picture while reading about the sad news of John A. Keel’s death on Cryptomundo.  You’ve probably seen the film based on Keel’s book The Mothman Prophecies. I had no idea he’d also written the book that has tormented me for twenty odd years.

But now I know. To ebay!

Just heard that Nature have bought another one of my short stories for their Futures section.

When I sent it in I thought that this one was a real long shot, but I thought that when I sent the first story they published too.

Out within a few months I should think.