My buddy and long-time collaborator, Brian A. Hopkins, had a publishing company at one point. He was providing anthologies and collections on CD ROM with audio and video components, cool artwork, and a nifty PDF interior. In 2002, he published a collection of my short stories in this format - The Subtle Ties that Bind - which is based on my story by that same title from the anthology Love in Vein II. The collection features the artwork of Mr. Thomas Arensberg, and was released as a limited edition of 200 copies (as well as a lettered set with a hand-made slip-case and a hand-inscribed haiku in silver metallic ink on each of the lettered copies…each haiku is different.

The stories all have a real audio introduction by myself. There is also a recording of my first published story, read by yours truly, also in real audio format. If I can figure out a good way to do it, I’m going to put that RA file up here on the site for folks to listen to, but being Real Audio, it’s a problem. We’ll see if I can find a good way to make it work.

Contents:”

Blameless
The Death Sweet Scent of Lilies
The Manlan
Redemption
To Dream of Sheherzad
The Rat
Wayne’s World
Having a Ball
A Charm Against Boredom (1st published story)
In His Heart Live Dragons
You Are Just Like Gods
Out of the Blues & Into the Black
From My REflection, Darkly
Sushi, or Not Sushi
The Subtle Ties That Bind
Against His Bitter Judgment
The Lost Wisdom of Instinct
Rending the Veil
Swarm
The Taste of Blood and Roses

This is probably still available SOMEWHERE…I have only my contributor’s copy - Letter A.

–DNW