Ridi, Bobo

“Ridi, Bobo,” written during David Hartwell’s week at Clarion West 1990, was picked up by Weird Tales—all three editors enthusiastic in their delight with this little bonbon; a rare event, they informed me—and published in their Spring 1993 issue. The story was then reprinted in the Datlow/Windling Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Seventh Series, Fall 1994, and in Karl Edward Wagner's Year's Best Horror, November 1994. Conveyed entirely in mime, this is a dark tale of clown betrayal and revenge. Pushed to extremes upon learning of his wife adultery, Bobo turns viciously rogue. And Momo, the Emmett-Kelly-like detective who has revealed to Bobo, through photographic evidence, Kiki’s infidelity and so much more, can only shake his head at the violence he witnesses from his vantage point outside their home that fateful night. “Ridi, Bobo” is included in my short story collection, Baby’s First Book of Seriously Fucked-Up Shit, available in POD and kindle formats. There’s also an audiobook of Baby’s First Book in the works, brought to spoken life by acclaimed narrator Edoardo Ballerini. It should be out early in 2021 on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes.

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