Writing By Bruce Taylor

  • Selections from
    KAFKA'S UNCLE: The Unfortunate Sequel
    and Other Insults to the Morally Perfect

    • The complete manuscript of this writing is currently unpublished and available for consideration. If interested, please contact Bruce Taylor.


    • You thought KAFKA'S UNCLE ended with Anslenot climbing into the coal bucket to ascend into the regions beyond the ice mountains, into the regions beyond the ice? You really thought the story ended there?

      Oh, no --

      Anslenot is back and the story continues in the regions beyond the ice which turn out, alas, to be bleak and cold indeed... And with him once more, his friend/confidant/tormentor, the tarantula. Together, they explore these frozen lands and encounter, again, the solace of Kafka. But they also meet The Little White Haired Girl, and Jonny Mantis whose name sort of says it all, whose purpose in life is lead everyone, now also including Anslenot and the tarantula, to the world of impending salvation ("The Rupture") by means of the Boo Hoo Scale.

      Also you will meet The Blizzard Beast who seeks the origin of its birth, the Media Bird who values the fluff news from Fuks News Service above all else, especially content. A scarab beetle by the name of Carl and his contemporary out of The Forbidden Planet, the Freudian Id Monster, Sigmund, play chess, with each chess piece having the face of--Anslenot.

      And finally, Anslenot meets and must come to terms with his nemesis, The Creature, which has vowed to destroy him. . .

      Also in the collection, the short novella, Dark's Echo-- Jennifer Hart, in completing her doctorate at the University of Washington, has to do just one more piece of research on legends and myths-- this time, of the South. She ends up in Florida to investigate the legend of a spirit-being, Dark's Echo, a creature of light and music that is said to protect children and the innocent from harm. Indeed, Jennifer does discover the being, but in so doing, she also discovers-- herself.

      In addition to these two novellas, another twenty-five stories, ranging from Magic Realism to the bizarre and surreal-- many of which have been previously published.

      " . . . a very gifted short fiction writer." -- Jeff VanderMeer, author of the best selling novels, Shriek, City of Saints and Madmen, and others, former editor, Ministry of Whimsy Press and two-time World Fantasy Award winner.

    • Anslenot In Ruptureland: Choosing Not To Choose
    • Anslenot In Ruptureland: The Dreamscape
    • Anslenot In Ruptureland: The Dreamscape 2
    • Justice in Amerry-Ka
    • Well?
  • From The Magic of Wild Places
  • Various Other Pieces