Memories of a Ghost, Joe DeRouen’s critically-acclaimed urban fantasy novel, is now available in audio book […]
Odds and Endings: Fiction Short and Otherwise, my first collection of short stories, will be released […]
I changed the title of my upcoming short story collection from Sundown Rising and Other Stories […]
I will be appearing at GlitchCon in Springdale, Arkanas, Friday, July 31st-August 2nd! I’ll be at the […]
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It was the time of Kölner Karneval in Cologne, or, as many of the locals preferred to call it, ‘die närrische Zeit’, the fifth and foolish season. Once a year, just after winter had ended, the city would host a huge carnival filled with parades, performers, and vendors hawking various foods and desserts, all enjoying a full weekend of madness celebrating the year to come.

— Small Things, Chapter 25