Adam-Troy Castro: Her Husband's Hands and Other Stories

Thanks, all, for joining me on this journey. I owe thanks to John Joseph Adams, Julia Sevin, Scott Edelman, John Skipp, Sean Wallace, Paula Guran, Johnny Atomic, Brad Aiken, David Dunn, Dave Slavin, Christopher Negelein, Harlan Ellison, Jordan London, David Gerrold, my parents Saby and Joy Castro, and the love of my life, the splendiferous Judi Castro. The rest of y’all: enjoy yourselves.

“Arvies” first appeared in Lightspeed, August 2010. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Her Husband’s Hands” first appeared in Lightspeed, October 2011. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs” first appeared in Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction, 2003. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Our Human” first appeared in Tor.com, May 2012. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Cherub” first appeared in Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed, 2011. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Shallow End of the Pool” first appeared in The Shallow End of the Pool, 2008. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Pieces of Ethan” first appeared in Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within, 2010. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Boy and the Box” first appeared in Lightspeed, July 2013. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Adam-Troy Castrohas said in interviews that he likes to jump genres and styles and has therefore refused to ever stay in place long enough to permit the unwanted existence of a creature that could be called a “typical” Adam-Troy Castro story. As a result, his short works range from the wild farce of his Vossoff and Nimmitz tales to the grim Nebula nominee “Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs.” His twenty prior books include a nonfiction analysis of the Harry Potter phenomenon, four Spider-Man adventures, and three novels about his interstellar murder investigator, Andrea Cort (including a winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, Emissaries from the Dead ). Adam’s other award nominations include eight Nebulas, two Hugos, and three Stokers. Adam lives in Miami with his wife, Judi, and three insane cats named Uma Furman, Meow Farrow, and Harley Quinn.

Lost in Booth Nine: Silver Salamander

X-Men and Spider-Man: Time’s Arrow, Book 2: The Present (with Tom DeFalco)

Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Sinister Six

An Alien Darkness

A Desperate Decaying Darkness

Spider-Man: The Revenge of the Sinister Six

Spider-Man: The Secret of the Sinister Six

Vossoff and Nimmitz: Just a Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time

Tangled Strings

With the Stars in their Eyes (with Jerry Oltion)

Emissaries from the Dead

The Shallow End of the Pool

The Third Claw of God

Gustav Gloom and the People Taker

Gustav Gloom and the Nightmare Vault

Gustav Gloom and the Four Terrors

Gustav Gloom and the Cryptic Carousel

Copyright © 2014 by Adam-Troy Castro.

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