My book BACKWARDNESS is still orderable in the USA from Elizabeth Ellen’s SF/LD Books, but a Calamari Archive edition (comprising the full text of the original, supplemented with some new content) is now available worldwide on Amazon, as well as from Asterism.
I was out with friends. This gorgeous blond came in and I don’t remember anything else. No specials today. I left the restaurant in a huff. I forgot my coat. I had to go back to the restaurant. My coat wasn’t there. The blond wasn’t there. I went home in a cab. Jazz music played.
“Always, my interest in popular forms was not to glority them—because I really dislike popular culture in most cases. I think it’s garbage, but that’s the culture I live in, and that’s the culture people speak. They learn to read in school, but they don’t learn to decode images.”