Dear subscribers,
I’m giving a preview for this paid post so I can also let everyone know there will be no posts this weekend and next week. It’s Easter, and I need to deal with a backlog of reading and get back to what will now be my third novel. I am also at an impasse with my serializations and need to resolve them so the stories can progress. Posts will resume next Saturday (April 6) with my poem for that day. I will fill the void with a few shared posts from other Substacks.
Great news though: my second short novel/novella and first satire, The Taco Psychosis, will be released as early as April 10! The ebook will come out sooner. Once I see that my sample copy is fine and everything I’ll let you know when it’s live. You won’t want to miss this one!
For now, feel free to mosey on over to my website for the cover reveal! I didn’t post it here since it doesn’t contrast well with Good Friday imagery. But you won’t regret the extra click: my cover artist and friend, Ondřej Strejček, turned out another masterpiece like it’s nobody’s business! (Click here to check out his Instagram, by the way!)
In the meantime, I wish everyone a happy and meaningful Easter.
“And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, ‘If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.’ But the other answering rebuked him, saying, ‘Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this man hath done nothing amiss.’ And [Dismas] said unto Jesus, ‘Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.’ And Jesus said unto him, ‘Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise.’” - Luke 23:39-43
Dear Believers (and curious eavesdroppers),
I want to begin by wishing everyone a most somber Good Friday and a most joyous Easter Sunday. Christ is (or should I say will be) risen: I hope and pray his rising will give you meaning, solace and strength in these dark times.
Holy Week is full of mysteries. But one little-known mystery is the Monday after Palm Sunday. It is the feast of St. Dismas, commonly known as the Penitent Thief. It is he who gives Dyzma’s Larder its name. (Dyzma being his Polish name) There must have been, somewhere in Ancient Jerusalem, a hidden larder full of stolen goodies: fruits of evil that now, after his repentance, serve Christ.