I wish I could have shared the following videos while Chicon7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, was still ongoing, as that would have hewed to Edelman’s Schadenfreude Rule of Convention Reporting. But alas, I was far too busy. (Future posts will show you just how busy.)

First up, on Thursday, August 30, Adam-Troy Castro read his short story “My Wife Hates Time Travel,” recently published in Lightspeed. Since you weren’t there, you don’t get any of the chocolate chip cookies he was handing out in support of his new novel Gustav Gloom and the People Taker—which should teach you to show up in person next time.

And then, on Monday, September 3, I read “A Most Extraordinary Man,” a sequel of sorts to Saki’s “The Open Window,” which will be published in the anthology The Monkey’s Other Paw: Revived Classic Stories of Dread and the Dead from NonStop Press.

I wish I’d known that I’d left my soda between me and the camera. I hadn’t intended to provide product placement for A&W Diet Root Beer!

There was other readings I’d hoped to attend and then share with you if the writers would permit—among them stories by Jo Walton, Paul Cornell, Geoff Ryman and Mary Turzillo—but my time somehow got away from me, as time must when you’re surrounded by hundreds of people you know—so you’ll have to settle for just these two.

So there’ll be only one more Chicon7 video forthcoming, and it will show Adam taking on the Bricks Painful Pizza challenge. That’ll have to wait, though, since some editing is involved. But check back if you want to see a man turn red and sweat hot sauce!