Who doesn’t love giant mon­sters ter­ror­iz­ing the land?  Who doesn’t love geeks who love giant mon­sters and crack­ing wise?  If you don’t, then you can skip this story.  If you do… read on.

This is prob­a­bly one of my most pop­u­lar sci­ence fic­tion sto­ries, and for what­ever rea­son, I’ve never got around to get­ting it put online.  With the spare time I have lately to work on my skillset, I decided to do a fun poster illus­tra­tion for the story and a hope­fully easy-to-read layout.

The story orig­i­nally appeared in the May 2005 issue of Interzone, edited by Andy Cox.   It’s my first print mag­a­zine sale.

So with­out fur­ther blath­er­ing, here’s the story and the illustration:

The Kansas Jayhawk vs. The Midwest Monster Squad by Jeremiah Tolbert.

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