Mohn, Steve

Steve Mohn

Speculative Fiction and Horror short stories

A CYBER INTERVIEW WITH STEVE MOHN

Interviewer: So, tell us a little about yourself. Who are you?

Steve: “Born in Pennsylvania, grew up in central New York, studied film at Purchase, met wife, moved to Montreal. Wrote novels no one would publish. Smoked. Published short stories in On Spec. Quit smoking. Published crime stories in Crimewave, SF in Interzone, slipstream in The Third Alternative (now Black Static). Became a fiction editor at On Spec, picking all stories for Addiction Issue. Have been pleasantly, even enthusiastically reviewed, though some have seemed to wish me dead. They’ll have their way, in time.”

Interviewer: “What about you, the writer? Tell us what inspires you to write.”

Steve: “Writing is listening. Kid I knew in high school came into the bar one night and sat down with me and a few of my best friends. Started talking about his dad, who ran a little grocery store at a fork in the road. Wouldn’t stop talking. My friends drifted off, one by one. I stayed, fascinated. Talk poured out of the kid. Not until very late did he reveal that his dad had that day suffered a heart attack. In the parking lot he thanked me for listening. I’d scarcely said a word, nor did I ever write any of it down, but that was the first time I was a writer.”

Steve Mohn short stories

Goodbye, Bob by Steve Mohn

A hitcher, a place to stay to get some rest before moving on to who knows where.  But the Kansas farm ‘Jesus’ directs our driver to has a secret lurking behind the farmhouse curtains.  How on earth will Bob get home now?  (Slipstream / Science Fiction)

Editor’s Note:  Steve does it again:  he weaves words to manipulate thought…gives us speculation in the truest sense of the word.  Delve into this writer’s graphical mind and delight in the imagery, the emotion and fine writing style that makes up yet another another winning story from Mr. Mohn, Goodbye, Bob.    —womblin

Is It Better Now? by Steve Mohn

In the darkest shadows of night, just before the illumination of dawn, the counciousness of a just beginning to harden hit man wages an agonizing battle of not good or better.  Is it better, now that we have cast off the substantial shadows that hold us …or are we worse off than before?   (Crime)

Editor’s Note: I’ve always loved the doomed, the flawed, those who search for flawed salvation by waging a war in the internal battle.  Sometimes we are delightfully suprised by the criminal mind, but that doesn’t always make it better, now, does it?  —skyrider

Kolorado by Steve Mohn
First published by On Spec

Maxine struggles with memory since Vinnie “turned” her.  Even colours evade her grasp.  There’s something else out there for her though, she’s certain.  Something surfacing in the back of her monochrome mind…  (horror)

Song of the Earth by Steve Mohn
First published by Interzone

Tyle Ryko will not climb the Call Tree, as generations of people have been doing since humanity came to populate Gallajen.  She will not let it infuse her with a destiny of its own devising.  She wants to make her own future.  …But her Uncle Gil has other plans.  (science fiction)

Takes After His Dad by Steve Mohn (Vol1, #3)

Blake Garnet discovers that there are two of him.  Blake Garnet discovers he’s been illegally cloned.  Identity theft at its most comprehensive?  Or is there another, more sinister, reason?

Editor’s Note: Once again, Steve Mohn spins science fiction that plays “live” in our mind’s eye.  He puts us there, squirming moment by moment in this not so distant plausibility.  (science fiction)