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PREFACE

The stories of In the Language of Scorpions span many years and many styles, though in all of them I’ve tried to explore the dark and the strange. Such emotions and experiences have been a constant in my life, beginning with the frequent nightmares that first struck in childhood and which continue to this day. And then there was that time in the Ozark Mountains, in the brooding forest....

It has become a cliché for writers to say that their art is what keeps them sane. It’s exactly the opposite for me. Without writing I would be completely and totally sane, and can you imagine anything more boring? I don’t want to look only toward the brightly lit side of the street and ignore the shadows that are also children of the sun. I don’t want to spend every working day with no thoughts beyond my job, and every evening sitting on the couch while the idiot box pulses “reality” TV into my brain.

Personally, I’d rather dream, no matter the consequences.

I hope you will dream with me.

Charles A. Gramlich

Abita Springs, Louisiana, 2011