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My story in Ruins Terra features an Underground Druidic Order.

Two days ago, i found out that the story, After the Stonehenge bombing was rejected as a reprint for an SF magazine. The editor wrote and said that the idea of an Underground Druidic Order was not convincing.

But yesterday, I met with my former high school teacher from out of town. She said when her elderly father died she was contacted by a Druidic Order she had never heard of (nor did she know her father, a Scotsman, was a Druid). They offered to pay for her father’s funeral, and hundreds of them attended the ceremony, and then disappeared just as mysteriously.

I conceived the underground druidic order as a tongue-in-cheek idea, but it looks like it could be more true than I realised!

Long live the underground druidic order.

And of course, I couldn’t help sharing the above anecdote with the editor of the SF magazine.

My story in Volume 1 of the Ruins Anthology (Ruins Terra) is After the Stonehenge Bombing.

It was inspired by the bombing of the Bamiyan Buddha and also my first visit to London - where I stopped by Baker Steet (I’m a big fan of Sherlock Holmes).

In this story you can expect to find, in no particular order: druids and an ArchDruid, the Sherlock Holmes statue at Baker Street Station, a silver clam-shell phone, a glass sculpture, CCTV on Legs!, monocles, academic envy, the UN, a potted fern, and more…

The speculative fiction anthology Ruins Terra (edited by Eric T. Reynolds) is now available for sale in Amazon.com and Fishpond.com.au .

Check it out - it contains my first sci-fi story After the Stonehenge Bombing , as well as other wonderful stories like Jenny Blackford’s Python , and NZ Vogel Award winner Douglas A. Van Belle’s Clonehenge.

The companion anthology Ruins Extraterrestial is also on sale at the above online bookstores. This volume contains “Beyond the Wall” by Justin Stanchfield, recently nominated for a Nebula Award. Read in entirety here: PDF and HTML.