The Goat Variations: Free VanderFiction for Other Worlds Than These

My story "The Goat Variations" first appeared in Other Earths edited by Nick Gevers & Jay Lake, and then was reprinted in my collection The Third Bear. Now it's been reprinted in John Joseph Adams' Other Worlds Than These anthology. He has a great new section on his website for the anthology, and I've let them post the story online in its entirety.When first published, and then reprinted in my collection, "The Goat Variations" was fairly controversial, with some making the assertion that I was just using fiction to make a political point about President George W. Bush. Well, if so...so what? That's not the real focus of the story, but if it were, bully for me.Hope you enjoy it.(It's just a rubber head, folks. Looks a little bit more like that guy from Kiss anyway.)