"AM" (reprint)/ Cemetery Sonata II / October 2000

Yes, you read right. "AM" is still alive and kicking. After it's brief stay at the webzine Bonetree (see below), it has been reprinted in the anthology CEMETERY SONATA II, June Hubbard's sequel to the anthology that started it all for me (see "Incineration" below).

Reviews:

Really Scary.Com: Review of CS II, and had a nice mention of "AM" Specific to the story, she wrote:

I really enjoyed AM by Dan Keohane, a cool little story about communicating with the dead and not in just any ol' traditional way.

SF Site: Review of CS II, and mentions my friend Fran B. Bellerive's story "Ticket to Arkansas"! :-)

Hellnotes: William P. Simmons 12/8/2000 review in the former weekly newsletter:

"Selecting just a few stories from this book is unfair, something like being forced to choose a favorite memory. "AM," by Dan Keohane comes immediately to mind for lingering atmosphere and a deceptively quiet tone of loss. A boy who uses an AM radio to spy on the recently dead discovers he's..."

OK, so I left the rest of his AM blurb out, since it's kind of a spoiler. He went on to praise quite a few other stories.