About Zig zag claybourne (aka clarence young)
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There's a clue in the number of names he uses (C.E. Young, C. Young, Zig Zag Claybourne, Thor MF Jones) showing that Zig believes writers should have the same privileges to inhabit a delightful variety of roles as actors. He grew up watching The Twilight Zone and considers himself a better person for it.
You can find his work scattered throughout the web, but if you really want to get to know him, here are 2 essentials:
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The AGNES REIN Purple Trilogy (Amazon exclusive), erotic comedy:
1. It's Turning Purple, I Think We Should Quit 2. Orange:Peeled & Seeded 3. Red Rover:Come Over
SHORT STORIES / ESSAYS
Agents of Change, Alt. History 101 (The Future Chronicles)
Baffen Island, Eastern Iowa Review
Bold As Love (thoughts on Star Trek), Black Girl Nerds
Building Blocks (roundtable discussion), Strange Horizons
Consciousness, UnCommon Origins
Description in R# of A Beautiful Girl Whom I Will Most Likely Never Meet, Wayne Literary Review (archived; collected in Historical Inaccuracies)
Eight Million Spec Scripts to Earth, Cult Classics for the Modern Cult
Expletive Deleted, The Reverie Journal (archived; collected in Historical Inaccuracies)
Fury, Rococoa
Move, The City: A CyberFunk Anthology
Persistence of Vision (essay), Apex Magazine
Revolver (*a Lois Tilton recommended read), Stupefying Stories
Sundown Town, Down Home Country Vampire
Yesteryear: The History & Legacy of Speculative Fiction (essay), Vex Mosaic