Bewildering Stories welcomes...

P. S. Gifford

P.S. joins a couple of Bewildering Stories’ contingents at the same time: British and Californian. Ahem, make that northern California!

Another new contributor mentioned wanting to become prolific. He can take an example from P.S., who says he returned to writing — an early love — in 2004 and has, in the past year or so, written over a hundred stories and published many of them. Maybe that explains the fire extinguisher P.S. keeps next to his computer: he uses it to douse his regularly overheating keyboard.

How P.S. does that with a family, two pet dogs and a rabbit, too, is beyond my imagination. Surely there is a truly Bewildering story in that. Kidding aside, P.S.: are you sure about that date of 2004 ?

“Consider This...” is P.S.’s first contribution. I think it subtly invites the readers to supply their own subtexts. A man is awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call from a young lady. He zooms out to meet her — on the transparent pretext of getting a scoop for his otherwise desultory newspaper — and soon finds himself in a bondage ritual with a group of also beauteous young ladies. It doesn’t matter what they do to him; if that reporter isn’t a ghost when he comes home, you can bet your booties he’ll wish he were.

Welcome to Bewildering Stories, P.S. We hope to hear from you again soon and often!

P.S. Gifford’s bio sketch can be found here.