Here's what Brady is working on lately and in the near future:
a new crime noir novel, something harboiled, as yet untitled--a down-on-your-luck kind of piece (the first line is, "Ford Loffing wasn't a man to live in his past, but his past sure lived off of him")
a YA horror/dystopian novel, which is tentatively on hold because of other projects
revisions of several old stories from before his few-years writing hiatus (he's submitting again after a lengthy hiatus from the business)
an outline for a novel about Rose Holmes, his self-destructive heroine from his short stories "Six Miles from Earth" and "The Taste of a Heart"
the idea for an ending to a literary/mainstream novella, 17EE, a love story about a guy with really big feet
final rewrites/revisions on one previously completed dark fantasy novel.
And finally, he's finishing revisions and drafts of some newer short stories that are sure to be hitting the mail (and email), including
a zombie tale ("The '-ists' after the Apocalypse")
one about something odd hiding underground at a roadside gas station ("Burger," which was started--two pages worth--a long time ago, and is finally about ready)
another inspired by a nine-day power outage he and his neighbors had in Dayton, Ohio, as the result of a windstorm in September of '08--it's about a guy who hears ringing and a radio broadcast in his head and about the "On-ies and Off-ies" and their neighborhood psychological war over power. Its working title, a long one, is "Turn up the Ear-Ringing, Please . . . or, Who's Got the Power Now, Asshole?"
the tale of a bored, graveyard-shift, gas station attendant who tunnels his way to Hell to get rid of his fat, annoying, bitchy-butch boss
one about a divorced dad who fights roadways full of monsters to make it to his kids for a parenting time pick-up
another post-apocalyptic tale about a girl who's growing scared of her boyfriend Mantis as they squat in a trailer on an abandoned country fair site
another about a hero who is born during a nursing home massacre
one about an inappropriate and unnerving Girl Scout
a story about an island that's a safehaven that's not so safe, where the women in the water are covered in moss (or, technically, algae)
another zombie tale, where a "dollar" store seems to be the only, uh, "safehaven"
and one about a donut shop in winter during a post-apocalyptic existence.
