The March 2008 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is now available, containing Richard Paul Russo’s “The Second Descent.”

Richard and I did a joint reading at the Science Fiction Museum several years ago, where I read my poem “The Second Ascent.” Richard misheard the title as “Descent,” was inspired, and asked if I minded him writing a short story with that title. Since it wasn’t my title at all, and since I’d actually lifted my title from a radio ad for a local mountaineering shop, I couldn’t possibly object. Anyway, Richard’s story is finally available for all to read.

And my poem is still here.