Saturday, May 2, 2009

"Top Secret" - new short fiction at Granta

I have a new short story up at Granta: "Top Secret."

Brief liner notes:

- It was written for "Writers in Drag," an offshoot of the Writers With Drinks series. The theme is, you write a piece in a genre outside your usual mode. After trying heroic fantasy and post-apocalyptic, I went to espionage.

- The title is indeed a reference to the mostly defunct, early 1980's spy-themed T SR role-playing system. I think it's pretty arguable that a literary genre doesn't really exist unless it was instantiated as an RPG at some point in the 1980's.