I made contact with both Barry Powell and Dominic Morris through them both sending unsolicited contributions to me at Lobster Telephone. Things went on for quite a while until Barry & Dominic had the idea of a collaboration, possibly to be serialized in Lobster which is essentially a small magazine and is limited in space. So after a while of umming and ahhhing we decided to run Trickster as a seperate project.

Not long after I received the first chapter I got a phone call late at night just after going to bed to bed. It was a friend of Barry's who was going through Barry's address book telling everyone the news that Barry had committed suicide the previous week. I couldn't really get many details out of him as he didn't know many himself, only that an interview Barry had had with his supervisor at University had gone very badly.

That's all we know.

We were at a loss what to do, Trickster was in pieces, incomplete, but we decided to try to finish it. Dom had the basic story outline from Barry & so he constructed the finished article as you see it here.

We're pleased with it, hope you are too. If you don't like it, give it to someone who might.

-- Edd.