Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
Meets Frosty the Snowman

Blazing Reader,

"Thank you John for this amusing piece of artwork," wrote Suzana, a Blazing Pine Cone subscriber. "Loved it."

She was, of course, referring to my surreal little post from last Thursday, "A snowman... in an electric storm," that I wrote under the influence of a bad flu. It reads like some poetic hybrid of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Frosty the Snowman.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it was a work of art.

Peter Toccalino, from warm California wrote: "That Frosty / Frankenstein post was a good one — successfully capturing a bonafide fever dream, combined with unrelenting nasty weather in Onterrible..."

If you missed my short hallucinatory story, you can read it here.

John C.A. Manley

P.S. Yes, it's still snowing here. For real.

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.