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Victor J Raymond's avatar

Mike wrote short works of fiction, drama, and poetry as holiday presents for his friends - he never had a lot of money, so he gave of himself. "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" was one of these short works. Sometime between Thanksgiving and the December holidays, we would go to Kinko's and he would make 100 or so copies; we would get envelopes, and he would mail them and distribute them to friends and loved ones.

We were all very lucky to have Mike in our lives; he had diabetes and then later kidney failure. He was on peritoneal dialysis for two years before his kidney transplant (his nephrologist was pleased that Mike only got peritonitis three times during those two years). But throughout it all, Mike was witty, urbane (just like his picture in Faces of Fantasy), and a creative genius. I genuinely thought he would be with us much longer than he actually was.

I miss Mike, a great deal.

-Victor Raymond

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Ken Burnside's avatar

Mike was a dear friend, and while I never got the Christmas card with Winter Solstice, Camelot Station, I have seen two of them, cherished possessions of their owners. I can confirm that yes, this was his Christmas card he mailed out to 250 friends in 1987. It was anthologized in 1988.

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