Withersin’s Damned Interview with:

Jason Sizemore

A young writer and editor from Appalachia Kentucky, Jason has seen his fiction appear in nearly two dozen books and magazines. He's a prolific non-fiction writer, having dozens of essays, reviews, and editorials published in print and on the web on varied subjects such as gaming, geek culture, and politics. He earned his college degree from Transylvania University, making him an ideal candidate to head a horror magazine. He was a 2006 Stoker Award nominee for his work on the Aegri Somnia anthology.

List published works:

"Hunting for Manhood"

River Walk Journal

"The Guts to Quit"

Whispers of Wickedness

"Sins"

Mt. Zion Press, Issue #4 (COMING SOON!)

"Little Digits"

Black Box (COMING SOON!)

"Gus's Good Day"

Horror Library

"Yellow Warblers"

Murky Depths Issue #2 (COMING SOON!)

"Mr. Templar"

Aberrant Dreams/The Awakening(Accepting Preorders!)

"The Dead and Metty Crawford"

The Horror Carousel Issue #5

"A Flash of Light"

Aoife's Kiss Issue #20

"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"

Nocturnal Ooze e-Zine (also available in The Horror of It All)

The Horror of It All (Four Sizemore Stories)

The Horror of It All e-Anthology

"An Ingenious Adventure"

Future Syndicate Anthology

"The Sleeping Quartet"

Forgotten Worlds, Issue #6

"Faithless"

Surreal, Issue #4

"Preacher Ira May Bowling"

Mt. Zion Press, Issue #1

"Blue Lights"

The Wheel, Spring 2005

"The Boiler Room"

Gravethoughts Radio, 8/21/2005 (audiocast)

"Life Imitating Art"

Whispers of Wickedness e-Zine

List website: http://members.iglou.com/jasonb - http://www.apexdigest.com

How can we contact you? Jason@apexdigest.com

In your own words, define Withersin.

A brothel of freaks writhing with perversion that publish damn good fiction.

If you were a sideshow act, what would you be?

I’d be the assistant in a tool porn show. My job would be to keep the tools sharpened and in working order.

What is your greatest non-literary influence?

That asshole Western Civilization professor I had in college. He called me a dumb hillbilly and hurt my feelings.

It has been my lifelong goal to prove him wrong.

Describe your most irrational fear.

Beetles. Damn things give me the willies.

How about your most guilty pleasure?

Any television show with a kick ass and sexy female in a position of power.

Name the most disturbing nursery rhyme/fairy tale you can recall.

I don’t remember the name of it…it was in a Jack’s Tales book…something called “Sop-Dah” that had soup and a cat.

Do you eat meat?

Yes. Meat and potatoes. That’s about it.

What were the skies like when you were young?

You mean before the war, the Bush presidency, 9/11, Cheney, Iraq, Clinton and blow jobs, 80s music, blood tears running down the faces of the children?

They were blue and beautiful.

Name your favorite garden tool.

The hoe.

Name your least favorite color, first job and worst job.

Pink. Janitor. Build master.

Favorite:  Author, Movie, Music Group, Song, and Quote.

MM Buckner, Twelve Monkeys, NIN, Jeremy by Pearl Jam

“Ours is not to wonder why, our is to do and die.”

If you were a loaf of bread what kind would you be?

White bread.

Weirdest news you have read in your local newspaper:

Woman claims cockfighting is not illegal because “Cocks don’t have four legs, therefore it is not an animal.”

Why horror?

It is fun to scare people. It also allows me to reflect my personal demons to the written page.

Here's a photo. (seen on Interview main page)

“INEDIBLE NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN FOOD”

You have 112 words. Go.

Bessie May poked at the food on her tray. She’d not eaten anything since being admitted to the hospital two days ago.

“The meatloaf sure looks yummy! I wonder what’s in the gravy?”

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