Bewildering Stories welcomes...

P. F. White

Patrick Fisher White says he prefers to use his initials in his byline. Fair enough; our contributors’ names range all over the place in form and content. He also sums up his career both succinctly and colorfully: “I am a story-teller by trade, a vagabond by design, and a sailor in the U.S. Navy by necessity.” He’s also an inveterate traveler, a minister, and an intructor in Spanish knife fencing.

P. F. cites several influences on his writing. One can detect a whiff of pulp in “Pale Son: the Life and Times of Bad Bob.” And the premise is comic: one imagines the author thinking, “In comic books and pulp fiction, it’s what Odysseus said of Polyphemus: ‘What did I tell you? It’s just one Damned Thing after another’. Okay, let’s go for it.”

And Bad Bob is a Damned Thing who does one damned thing after another until the reader cries uncle and will never again take a one-dimensional villain at face value.

P. F. White’s bio sketch can be found here.

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