Author's Note

It started out as a challenge from one of my fellow writers -

We were meeting to have a critique session and it just happened to fall of Friday the 13th, so she challenged us all to write a unique story on Friday the 13th that didn’t fall into the traps of same-old-same-old.  I took the challenge and for days wracked my brains for something new and interesting to say about an ancient superstition.  I researched, looking for something that would spark a story, sometimes it takes just the littlest thing to get the fires of creativity roaring.  At first I came up dry, but then it struck me.  Even though most of the traditions for Friday the 13th involve ill-luck, not all of them do.  What if that means we’ve got it all wrong?  What if it means that Friday the 13th isn’t really all about bad luck?  And my mind was off to the races….

What if, on Friday the 13th, it’s not that you have bad luck, but rather you have no luck at all?  What if, on Friday the 13th, all the luck in the world flies free and roams around loose?  And what if, on Friday the 13th, there were people with the skills and cunning to be able to catch all this free floating luck? 

That is precisely what my short story, “Gathering Luck,” is all about.  I sold it to Sam’s Dot Publishing and they have released it this month in thier recurring anthology, Cover of Darkness.  If you’d like to see what I’m making such a fuss about, you can check it out here: http://www.genremall.com/anthologiesr.htm#coverofdarkness1109