TOM PICCIRILLI is the author of twenty novels including Shadow Season, The Cold Spot, The Coldest Mile, and A Choir of Ill Children. He’s won the International Thriller Award and four Bram Stoker Awards, as well as having been nominated for the Edgar, the World Fantasy Award, the Macavity, and Le Grand Prix de L’imagination. For more information visit Tom’s website.

Tom’s contribution to DARK FAITH is “Scrawl.”

Who are you?
You emailed me, brother, don’t you know? Let me reaffirm: I am Tom Piccirilli

What is your story about?
It’s a strange fusion of themes and genres, I suppose. Basically the tale is about a vanilla pudge writer incited by a sexcat woman of the world to both dominate her and somehow take control of his own career.

Where is your story set?
San Francisco, a place I’ve never been, actually. Poetic license and all that.

When does your story take place?
Dude, are these serious interview questions? You just gonna go down the list and ask who, what, when, where? You sadden me.

Why do you think Maurice Broaddus throws a convention in honor of himself (Mo*Con)?

I think God told him to. All these preacher men, that’s what they always say. And don’t forget, Maurice spelled backwards in ancient Assyrian means “Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?” Coincidence? I think not. The hand of God is clearly writing on the wall.

How does your story tie into the concept of faith?
I have no idea if it does. You’ll just have to have faith that it might.

Excerpt from “Scrawl”:

As usual, I didn’t know where I was or why I was there.

It had something to do with a couple of my ex-pat New Yorker buddies inviting me out to San Francisco around the same time a big erotica reading was happening at the Puss and Whips sex shop. I’d been dabbling with erotica tales for the past couple of years and they were starting to catch some attention.

Some of the editors who’d picked up my work were throwing something called “The Hussy Hootenanny” at the store. I still had trouble with some terminology others had embraced, probably because I still remembered when calling a woman a bitch was a bad thing that could get you iced by the sisterhood of Gloria Steinham.

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