A put-upon reviewer, the editor’s favorite obscure author, the posthumous capstone to a trilogy, an insatiable monster, and an orphaned cat.
“Red Sword of the Celiac” appeared in the Mar/Apr 2020 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. along with too many other enjoyable pieces to list.
What started out as a play on words evolved into a piece of “Malzbergian metafiction”, a sort of love letter to some of the hoary tropes and trilogies of twentieth century SF.