The long awaited After Avalon anthology got back from the printer yesterday. This is a special joy to me because I wrote the piece Paste-Bones and Ragdolls many years ago and never thought that it would find its way into print, in spite of it being one of my favorites.
The anthology itself is about the world after the king left Camelot, and what happened to its survivors, and those who tried to find it again.
My own story is of Gawain and Bleys — an old memory of an old time far removed from the buying and selling of the world — the sort of thing that might serve on a rainy day. It is a strange piece, but perhaps a good one, at least if you are open to it — and to tales of the old days, and to the old style, and to the belief in wonders.
Thomas Olivieri 