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Attorney, writer, dad. Stories in PseudoPod, DailySF, and elsewhere. Codex. Bad runner, worse climber (he/they)

Grocery store checkout rack featuring a publication titled “Haunted History of Old San Antonio.”
Close up of a closed box of canollis from LaCascia’s bakery
Marissa Lingen, masked, reading into a microphone
Matt Kressel in glasses and a “PKD made me do it” shirt reading to an audience
Michael J DeLuca, masked, reading from a table to an audience off camera
Daniel José Older sitting on a table, holding a microphone and addressing an audience
A rabbit on a gravel path
AC Wise reading into a mic on a table in front of a mostly unseen audience
AT Greenblatt reading to an unseen audience, while seated at a table with a microphone
Richard Butner, seated at a table and looking dapper in a jacket and kerchief, addressing an audience off camera
A flow chart with most of the results being “not a good adventure” or “it was a good adventure”
Me, the middle aged white guy with the bad beard and goofy smile, running behind my daughter on her bike on a neighborhood street
Yours truly, a middle aged white dude with a graying beard, “running” at the end of a race
Homestar Runner saying “Baleeted!”
Diedrich Bader in OFFICE SPACE, with his glorious mullet and handlebar mustache
An art print showing the pixelated solider from the 90s fps shooter DOOM on a pink background with the text “Male Loneliness Epidemic”
The view from an overlook in the Texas Hill Country, juniper trees and limestone under a cloudy sky
The cover of an alternative tabloid paper purporting to show giant pan dulce flying like UFOs over a bakery with the headline “Unidentified Aerial Pan!!”
A virtual Valentine’s Day card with a black and white photo of a young mustachioed Werner Herzog. “Valentine, in your eyes I see the light, the heat; also the chaos, hostility, and murder.”
John Picacio and Johnny Compton in front of an audience in Nowhere Bookshop
A middle aged white dude with a Padres cap, a running vest, and a bad beard “running” through cedar trees under blue skies
Me, a middle aged white dude looking sweaty and exhausted, biting a San Antonio Marathon finisher medal like that meme
Screenshot of a text message: Sooooo Good. [Redacted] was like “OH my God where was this!” I said, “Clay wrote it.” “I thought he was a Lawyer!”
A text message saying “Seriously, you walked over my fucking grave with that 📝 dude”
A seated audience in a bookstore in front of author Martha Wells and the event host
A crowd presses in on John Picacio on stage with his artwork
A creek bed running through a forest at dawn. The far bank is elevated, and there standing water and gravel in the creek.
Patrice Sarath at a round table reading in front of a laptop, with her book Into the Dark displayed
People singing in front of a karaoke screen
Max Booth with green hair introducing the reading
Bill Ledbetter sitting at a table with other people, getting ready to read
David Hopkins, a bearded man, reading at a podium
A screenshot of my schedule for Armadillocon this year: Friday, September 12 5:30pm Is Being a Writer Worth Paying the Self-employment Taxes? Ballroom D, 5:30pm - 6:25pm 9pm Erotica and Horror: Bodies and Relationships Ballroom D, 9pm - 9:55pm Saturday, September 13 2:30pm What You Should Have Read This Year Ballroom D, 2:30pm - 3:25pm 7pm What is the Value of Climate Fiction? Southpark A, 7pm - 7:55pm 9pm Severance, Foundation and the AppleTV Prestige SF Renaissance Southpark A, 9pm - 9:55pm
Two authors sitting on a stage before a large audience
Black Francis of the Pixies singing into a microphone
Portrait black and white of a smiling man in a jacket and tie, Jelly Roll Morton
LP Hernandez interviewing Josh Rountree at Ghoulish Books in San Antonio, Texas
The cover of Stephen Graham Jones’s The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, which shows a bison head in right profile and red and black text
Hubcaps hung from trees in a grove
A gold card with text: THE BEARER OF THIS CARD IS A GENUINE AND AUTHORIZED POPE So Please Treat Him/Her Right GOOD FOREVER Authorized by the House of Apostles of Eris Every man, woman and child on this Earth is a genuine and authorized Pope. Reproduce and distribute these cards freely • P.O.E.E. Head Temple, San Francisco
Some slow jackass at the finish line of a foot race, looking tired and silly
A dad and his two kids standing on an overlook of a forested canyon
Some schmuck in a Santa costume looking miserable as he crosses the finish line in a race
Two stuffed badgers with squinty eyes, one looks like it is smiling.
A shattered toilet amidst green vines on a hill, as seen from above
An “I voted” sticker with a US flag
A grey cat sitting on a brown overstuffed chair
Christopher Brown and Jennifer Bristol sitting at a table in a bookstore addressing the audience out of frame
Promotional headshot of Clayton Hackett for the Armadillocon science fiction convention. Text reads: “ArmadilloCon 2024 A Literary Convention for SF, Fantasy & Horror Readers & Writers Sept 6-8, 2024 | Austin, Texas | Armadillo Con.org CLAYTON HACKETT Author: short fiction writer in PseudoPod, Daily Science Fiction, etc. Attorney”
A screenshot of the 8-bit NES game The Legend of Zelda, with the player character Link being offered a wooden sword with the admonishment “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.”
Movie poster for High-Rise
Still from WRATH OF KHAN of William Shatner yelling
Still image from THE THING of Kurt Russell in sunglasses and his wife-brimmed gold panning hat
Front of the building of the Snake Farm zoo
Two children wearing eclipse-viewing glasses looking up
A young shepherd stands in the open mouth of a stone face that appears to be yelling, with a flock of sheep milling in the foreground
A copy of Max Booth III’s ABNORMAL STATISTICS novel stacked on the Ghoulish Tales issue #1 on top of GUSTAVO THE SHY GHOST, and a Ghoulish Books promotional magnet
Friday, August 4 8pm Spotlight on Southwest-Themed Sci Fi and Fantasy Southpark B, 8pm - 8:45pm Saturday, August 5 10am What have Texas Infrastructure Failures Taught Us About the Coming Apocalypse? Southpark A, 10am - 10:45am 4pm You Are Good Enough: Fighting Imposter Syndrome Southpark A Sunday, August 6 10am Stress Management for Creative People Ballroom D 2pm The Gray Area Between "Genre" and "Literary" Ballroom E