Author Archive for Gerry Huntman

Gerry Huntman lives with his wife and young daughter in Melbourne, Australia. He is an IT Consultant to make the real money, while a writer , co-owner and Chief Editor of IFWG Publishing (small specfic traditional publisher based in US), and publisher/contributing editor to SQ Mag (an international specfic ezine), to make the Monopoly money, and keep him sane. Gerry publishes short fiction in mags, ezines and anthologies, in all three main genres of speculative fiction, and many of the subgenres. He divides his time equally between fantasy, horror and scifi, but much of his fiction tends towards dark and no small number cross genre. He has published six steampunk stories. Very recent short fiction have been published in Penny Dread Tales II steampunk anthology (Runewright), Ticon4 (Ticonderoga Press), Blood Moon Rising Magazine, and Aurora Wolf Magazine. He recently published a young teen fantasy novel, Guardian of the Sky Realms (IFWG, 2010). He is on the judging panel for novels and novellas for the Australian Shadows Awards.

My Best Friend Julian

First published in Anthology of Steampunk (edited by Tonia Brown, Sonar4, 2010, out of print)   I want to tell you about my best friend Julian. He has been gone for over a year now, and today a depressive pall…