I’m out and about. Last post before BoucherCon.
The good folks at [PANK] interviewed me about my story in their July issue, “We’re All Guys Here.” We talk Chekhovian endings and guns that have to go off.
I am also at Julianna Baggott’s We Represent the 47 Percent blog, where writers put a human face to folks who have used government help. I went to college with assistance from a Pell Grant. My grandparents went on Relief after an accident. My great-uncle Jimmy is in a VA hospital right now. We all paid back the government’s investment in us many times over.
Thomas Pluck writes unflinching fiction with heart. His stories have appeared in Big Pulp, Needle, Stupefying Stories, The Utne Reader Burnt Bridge, [PANK] magazine, Crime Factory, Spinetingler, Beat to a Pulp, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and elsewhere. He edits the Lost Children charity anthologies to benefit PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children, and writes 


"The Story of O Street" in Oh Sandy: An Anthology of Humor for a Serious Cause
"Kamikaze Death Burgers at the Ghost Town Cafe" in Feeding Kate
"Acapulcolypse" in Nightfalls: Notes from the End of the World
"The Rock Ridge Ringer" in Hills of Fire: Bare-Knuckle Yarns of Appalachia
"Train" in Shotgun Honey Presents: Both Barrels
"Garbage Man" in Beat to a Pulp: Superhero



The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology (Amazon Kindle & Paperback)