The Metric

I recently had a piece published in The Metric. (Rest Assured: I Didn't Sleep With Your Mother)

The story can be found here:

http://www.themetric.co.uk/

A review of the story by the editors:


"A love-life life in finances.  An unusual premise leads to an extraordinary and heart-wrenching short story.  As readers, we are placed in the shoes of the narrator’s recently ex-partner and, in balancing the books on everything from electricity bills to drug habits, we are shown the wasteland of a life post disastrous relationship.  Faced with the final sum, a cordial request to pay up, and the narrator’s less-than-thoughtful plans, we can take some small comfort from the title, at least. Baltis’s work is so practical and tragic as to be comic in its narrator’s surprisingly relatable quest to set a price on love."

Rest Assured: I Didn't Sleep With Your Mother

Had a short story published today in the British journal, The Metric. Check it out.

http://www.themetric.co.uk/

Waiting out the winter

Things are heating up on the steppe. By heating up, I mean it's gone from just below freezing to just above freezing with freezing winds. I'm finishing up my next novel, Endless Knots, and happened to stumble upon some old Mongolian short fiction books printed before the switch over to democracy.

Nice to read from a real book again. Most the reading I've done over the past two years has been on a Kindle and I forget what real paper feels like. I like the Kindle format, especially for note taking and looking up words, but real paper reminds me of why I started writing in the first place.

Summer is on the way, which means I need to figure out my residency status for next year. Mongolia one more year, then New York. After that I'm retiring.