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WEBSITE: Call For Papers STORY: The Neighbors Are Mostly Dead ANTHOLOGY: Urban Nightmares, edited by Dorothy Davies DATE: 2012 Jared Gade, rookie detective and highborn, uber-rich socialite has a problem. His rich "uncles" are vampires. When three murdered crooks turn up at their townhouse, Jared must come clean to his detective boss, a banned magician and the ghosts who witnessed the murder. Worse yet, his "uncles" and the Magician are two thousand years old and hate each other. Can Jared resist the lure of being eternally undead or will he be a good patrician and open a vein for his "uncles" to suck? |
WEBSITE: Call For Papers STORY: The Day the Meth Lab Exploded ANTHOLOGY: PORTALS: an anthology edited by Todd Seaward DATE: 2012 A detective finds a strange metal case in the ashes of a Meth lab fire and that metal case follows him through the apocalyptic end to civilization. |
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WEBSITE: Call For Papers STORY: Snowbound, With Wolves ANTHOLOGY: Synaptic Void, edited by Joe Jablonski DATE: 2012 A camping Expedition on an alien world goes awry when wolves attack. However, all is not lost, our campers do not become lumps of digested food in the snow, not on this alien world. |
WEBSITE: Call For Papers STORY: Lower Than the Worms Beneath Our Feet ANTHOLOGY: What Lies Beneath: an anthology edited by Todd Seaward DATE: 2012 first contact with an alien race that takes a strange turn for one of the humans involved. Some poor guy is going to turn into a mud man. |
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WEBSITE: Call For Papers STORY: With Dragons Sprites and Other Delights ANTHOLOGY: Beneath the Waves: an anthology edited by Chris Bartholomew DATE: 2012 Aye Mateys. There be pirate treasure out there on a tiny island west of the Florida Keys. More doubloons than a dozen men can carry and all but one of them guard the secret of that treasure with their bones. Beware, the twelfth man is name Robin and he definitely isn't a good fellow. He wants revenge. |
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STORY: Bo's Simian Winter (old title: The Test Subject) ANTHOLOGY: Winter Chills, edited by Dorothy Davies DATE: 2012 How much would you change for a friend? How about becoming another species? Questions, we got questions. |
WEBSITE: Call For Papers STORY: Village of the Fifth Lion ANTHOLOGY: THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH - THE DARK SIDE: an anthology edited by Chris Bartholemew DATE: 2012 Two men, searching for The Fountain of Youth in the mid 1930's, find Ponce De Leon and discover that "youth" is not entirely what it seems. |
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WEBSITE: Call For Papers STORY: The Night Dickie Ward's Tongue Stuck to the Flagpole ANTHOLOGY: DIESELPUNK, an anthology by Sean Monaghan DATE: 2012 Three teenage brothers confront an alien threat in the Ice Hockey Rink. |
WEBSITE: Call For Papers STORY: The Shrovetide Affair ANTHOLOGY: Deals With The Devil, an anthology; edited by Stephanie L. Morrell DATE: 2012 A man returns to his friends a zombie, dead as a doornail, heart ripped from his chest zombie and asks them to help him get his heart back by finding the voodoo master in the swamp. It is a deal made with the devil and no good can come of it. |
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STORY: On Passing Through a Graveyard on a Warm Summer Night ANTHOLOGY: Summer Thrills, edited by Dorothy Davies DATE: 2012 A graveyard, a murder and a ghost -- In the dark of night, the dead speak a dead language of their own and keep company with the dead. The dead do not keep company with the living, unless... |
WEBSITE: STATIC MOVEMENT: Call For Papers STORY: In the Darkness, By an Icy Ocean ANTHOLOGY: Shadows Within Shadows 2, edited by Gregory Miller DATE: 2012 Two astronauts on a terraforming mission in the Oort Cloud find artifacts that are more than merely a rock or a piece of metal. There are memories of lives from a billion years before that insist on being remembered. |
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WEBSITE: STATIC MOVEMENT: Call For Papers STORY: The Zombie Blackmailers of Panocadia Three ANTHOLOGY: Undead Space, edited by Joe Jablonski DATE: 2012 A short remembrance of things past, a nostalgia of lost childhood, in a completely and utterly weird Zombified sort of way. |
WEBSITE: Blue House Press STORY: Circus Extravagansis DATE: 2012 Mankind dashes out into the galaxy after aliens give them long distance spaceflight but all is not fortune, glory and adventure. The alien races resent Earthlings for their chaotic and anarchic customs and behavior. When four young men from broken homes start sneaking into Circus Extravagansis and stealing the publicity, the leaders of the Circus involve them in a conspiracy of three ring proportions. But remember, Earthlings are not loved and cherished. When the curtain falls on our little drama, four young men find new roles in the Circus; roles that they never expected. |
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WEBSITE: Wicked East Press ANTHOLOGY: Short Sips, Coffee House Flash Fiction Collection Volume 2, edited by Jessica A. Weiss STORY: The Caterwauling Kitties of Castle O'Rourke DATE: 2012 There's the tooth fairy. There's your fairy godmother. And there's Rory, the Cat Fairy who haunts Castle O'Rourke. He made the mistake of disturbing the peace and hating cats. Hey you cat lovers, here's one for you. |
WEBSITE: Call For Papers STORY: A Meteorite Struck Lance Last Week ANTHOLOGY: A BUTTERFLY IN CHINA an anthology edited by Sean Monaghan DATE: 2012 A tiny chunk of meteor hits the star player of a world-championship Rugby team. It starts to turn his body into living metal and that causes all sorts of grief at airport security. But does our star player simply roll over and play dead, tragically whimpering in self-doubt or does our star player take the bull by the horns and create a new life? That is the question. |
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WEBSITE: CANDIDUM STORY: Come Hell or High Water, Corporate Wants a Monster Movie DATE: August 2011 From the hot, stinking desert to the board rooms, a wannabe film maker wants to improve the script from "Plan 9 From Outer Space" to at least a "B-Movie" with Bruce Campbell but the movie has alien reptiles invading planet Earth... THAT SCRIPT NEEDS HELP! and the film maker gets that help from a strange meteor and the green mist that emanates from it. |
WEBSITE: STATIC MOVEMENT: Call For Papers ANTHOLOGY: Midnight Train, edited by Dorothy Davies STORY: Perdition Found in a Railcar DATE: 2012 A thief and scoundrel who once rode with Quantrill's raiders in the Civil War wants the secret of eternal life. He confronts a seeming rich man traveling in a private railcar and finds more than he bargained for. |
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WEBSITE: STATIC MOVEMENT: Call For Papers STORY: The New Frankenstein ANTHOLOGY: Hospital, edited by Sean Monaghan DATE: 2012 Jonah Carnahan, a detective inspector with the Atlantipolis City Police Force and a bicycling enthusiast, is involved in a car accident that leads to revelations of murder, ghosts, abominations of nature and cyborgs at All Souls Charity Hospital. There is no hope for the living to survive a fate worse than dying in this hospital. In the words of Mary Shelley: "I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion." And this cyborg does not fear Death. |
WEBSITE: Seven Archons STORY: The Break Up ANTHOLOGY: Writings on the Wall, edited by DG Sutter & A. Laquerre DATE: 2012 A knock on the door provides new insights into the relationship of a "not so nice" friendship between two men and the girl they think they love. |
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WEBSITE: Call For Papers ANTHOLOGY: Spring Fever STORY: A Rememberance of Spring With Flowers in Bloom DATE: 2012 Nothing is so memorable as a day in spring with cool breezes, the smell of cherry blossoms and flowers, puffy white clouds and an alien abduction.
WEBSITE: Call For Papers | ANTHOLOGY: Cobwebs and Antiquities STORY: And With a Sigh Winter Says Goodbye DATE: 2012 The cold night of winter overstayed. It was thus in Jules Anson's heart, if not Central City as a whole until a theft could be discovered, wrongs brought to justice and curses lifted. Anson knew that once magic was invoked in the name of Fire, Earth, Air or Water, that magic must run its course. | |
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WEBSITE: CALL FOR PAPERS ANTHOLOGY: A - Z Cities of Death STORY: Kathmandu Raga DATE: 2012 He slept fitfully. The way soldiers always sleep on rock mattresses cradled against the surviving wall of a burnt out building. And so begins Kathmandu Raga, my story of a dead city, blasted into rubble and the sniper who kills those stranded in the devastation. |
WEBSITE: CALL FOR PAPERS ANTHOLOGY: Weird City 3 STORY: City Of Blood DATE: 2012 There is always something interesting happening in Central City on weekends -- Jazz bands, funky flash mobs, symphony concerts, the midnight screening of Rocky Horror in drag, fancy dinners, dancing at the Waldorf Ballroom for the rich and sophisticated, and even ... the end of the world. Professional trainer and magician Domenic Gedigold and his buddy from the distant past must deal with a madman who wishes to establish an empire of werewolves. If he fails then Central City will become a City of Blood. |
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WEBSITE: STATIC MOVEMENT: Call For Papers STORY: Demigods of the Pacific ANTHOLOGY: Fighting Jack, edited by Chris Bartholomew DATE: 2012 Captain Jack Tonero meets his first love, his high school sweetheart and thinks that she is gorgeous, beautiful and as hot to trot as all those silly, sappy summer romances you ever read. Jack also thinks that he is God's gift to women, the world, pirates, marines and the Navy. It doesn't take long before large green men with gills rise from the sea to spoil his assignation, his lady love orders him dead, his first mate orders missiles fire at the boat he's on, someone violates his cellphone and he has to fight for his life. If this be the stuff of love, we're in trouble. |
WEBSITE: STATIC MOVEMENT: Call For Papers STORY: The Man in the Moon Became My Grandfather ANTHOLOGY: The Colonies, edited by Shane Collins DATE: 2012 When a child is born, every parent dreams of a future for that child so glorious it is written in golden letters across a sky so vast, it is meaningless to describe. But no child ever lives up to those dreams and thus, every parent's dream dies a little each day. No child born of man could live up to the dreams of that birth. But what happens when a parent gets a second chance? Something truly Mysterious and Wonderful happened in Warehouse Three of Moonbase Alpha. One day our children will step between the stars and write history in bold actions and wondrous deeds. |
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WEBSITE: Brave Blue Mice STORY: The Adventures of Sheriff Billy Shane on His Birthday DATE: 2012 The Sheriff and Deputy of Chadron Nebraska discover a Magus trying to become a living god and it is up to the two men to stop the Magus. But they aren't alone. The sheriff is related to not one but two Greek gods. It's party time. |
Available at: Amazon ANTHOLOGY: What is New is Old Again - a Steampunk Anthology, dedicated to C.D. Turner DATE: January 2012 In a Victorian world of city-states where steam carriages drive through cities lit by gas lamps and enchanted mechanicals guard the estates of the rich, how do diplomats and politicians settle disputes? They devise Rules of Engagement, hire small armies and stage skirmishes between brigades of clockworks, steam power war machines, helium airships. They invoke ghosts, raise the dead and listen to consultants. A Steampunk story of the dead rising and making war wih clockwork gargoyles. |
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WEBSITE: WICKED EAST PRESS: Call For Papers ANTHOLOGY: Fresh Ground--Coffee House Flash Fiction V3 STORY: The Book of Dreams DATE: April 2012 An editor believes he can capture the dreams of children for everyone in the world to see.
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ANTHOLOGY: Picnic Nightmares STORY: My Family Picnic Made the History Books DATE: 2012 What if a drug lab unleashes a deadly bacterial slime that turns people to zombies and you are holding your family picnic in the grove downstream from the drug lab? Would you take the blame for your food being so bad your relatives eat each other? Or would you become the savior and fight the slime with Santoku knives and spatulas. | |
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WEBSITE: CALL FOR PAPERS ANTHOLOGY: NOIR STORY: CYBORG HARROW GENESIS DATE: 2012 What would happen if micromachines, nannites, could turn human soldiers into metal and silicone weapons of war. Would humanity survive the war or would the nannites simply take over everything and declare peace with the other nannites? Only one man can save the world of flesh and blood humanity from destruction. What is the price he must pay? |
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AMAZON for slightly more: Dark Secrets ANTHOLOGY: Dark Secrets STORY: And Death Will Never Take Me DATE: December 2011 A simple drunk and disorderly police call reveals the secret sins of the Angel of Death. |
Amazon link: Tales of Salt and Sorrow STORY: Bodies At The Buoy ANTHOLOGY: Tales of Salt and Sorrow, edited by Dorothy Davies DATE: August 2011 Policemen Aidan Cainne and Silvio Ranaldo find a dead body in an old-style diving suit under an abandoned diving platform and before they can summon help, a pirate adds them to his scorecard of bad deeds. As the Bible says, the wages of sin is death; not Miltonian death in some fiery Hades or a Dante-like Inferno, but the Angel of Death incarnate come to deliver judgment. When the entire world holds it breath and Death looks deep into the murderer's heart, what does a man see reflected in Death's eyes? |
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Quarterly #2 April-June 2011 Amazon link: Tales of Salt and Sorrow STORY: The Penis Tree DATE: DFE Quarterly April-June, 2011 (published 9 March 2011) A vacation in Glencoe, Scotland becomes one of the creepiest experiences in life for a sales representative when he finds a tree with a latex marital aid growing out of it. |
Amazon link: Amazon USA STORY: Roll Another Joint For Me, Baby! ANTHOLOGY: Like Frozen Statues of Flesh, a Bizarro Anthology, edited by Joe Jablonski DATE: 12 July 2011 It's about a murder in a dystopic society. Lady Sylvia's cheese cavalier is killed before everyone eyes by an invisible killer. Who can solve such a crime? The obsequious detective? The perceptive Patrolman? The banned Blog Editor with the unsavory past? |
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Amazon link: Amazon USA STORY: Like A Deer In The Headlights ANTHOLOGY: Like Frozen Statues of Flesh, a Bizarro Anthology, edited by Joe Jablonski DATE: 12 July 2011 Ever wonder what the deer thinks about? Well Brant Black and Skeeter Crust find out what it takes to be on the other side when their hunting trip is hijacked to another planet. I just love a man with a big rack of antlers. |
Amazon link: Cosmic Catastrophes STORY: Astronomers On The Beach ANTHOLOGY: COSMIC CATASTROPHES, an anthology by Chris Bartholomew DATE: 23 Feb 2011 What do you do with the crew of a spaceship when you colonize a world? Twelve Cities abandons them on the planet with the rest of the colonists. What kind of jobs do abandoned astronomers try to find? Would you believe internet videos of stone men in large caverns? That works for some. But something is up there, in the sky, falling toward the planet like the sword of Damocles is a meteor and it will thwart the best laid plans of astronomers and colonists alike. |
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Amazon link: Monk Punk STORY: Rannoch Abbey and the Night Visitor ANTHOLOGY: MONK PUNK, an anthology by A.J. French DATE: 15 April 2011 On the Vigil of Easter in Rannoch, Scotland in 1155 AD, a flying saucer crashes into the bog near a church and and monks go militant. A review at HELLNOTES A review at Ginger Nuts of Horror Another Review at The Future Fire |
AMAZON for slightly more: Daily Flash ANTHOLOGY: Daily Flash 2012: 366 Days of Flash Fiction STORY: The Outer Limits of the Pizza Twilight Zone DATE: December 2011 Ever get the wrong number and they order pizza from you? Flash Fiction Satire. |
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Amazon for slightly more: Local Heroes STORY: Kakashi ANTHOLOGY: LOCAL HEROES, an anthology edited by Brandon Rucker DATE: December 2011 Not all heroes have powers and muscles and capes. Some heroes live lonely, solitary lives and care for the ordinary things, lest the ordinary things become unique. There's a big, black scarecrow in someone's future. If you leave the city life, the rat race and modernity to return to the greener, agricultural lifestyle, what becomes of those touches of modern isolation and loss of ancestral memories? |
WEBSITE: Static Movement Shop STORY: Thunderstorms and Thaumaturgy ANTHOLOGY: HALLOWEEN STORIES VOL 2, an anthology edited by Chris Bartholemew DATE: Halloween 2011 A car wrecks and the driver is dead but the accident is not an accident, it's worse than murder. A portal has been opened and an ancient evil is invading the earth. Is this the end of civilization? Only one man can prevent it. Is it the bright young patrolman? The Luddite detective? Or the strange blog editor with the funny name and the hidden past? |
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WEBSITE: STATIC MOVEMENT SHOP Or at Amazon for slightly more: Road Trip ANTHOLOGY: ROAD TRIP, edited by Chris Bartholemew DATE: 30 August 2011 Charlie Crampon, a college student returning from his father's memorial service, meets up with two strange dogs that turn out to be anthromorphs and they involve him in a strange and deadly affair. Or so he thinks because nothing is as it appears to be. |
WEBSITE: Static Movement Shop STORY: Sasquatch and Cyborg LLC ANTHOLOGY: BOUNTY HUNTER, edited by Chris Bartholemew DATE: 30 April 2011 One hundred seventy years in the future, a serial killer comes to the Yukon Territory and an alien bounty hunter (a Sasquatch with telepathic fleas) and a human detective (no fleas, no telepathy, just a college degree) must join forces to find the killer before he kills again. |
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Or at Amazon for slightly more: Weird City 1 STORY: Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum... ANTHOLOGY: WEIRD CITY 2, edited by George Wilhite DATE: 4 April 2011 An ex-marine turned Detective finds the man he is looking for in a gym, punching a speed bag. However, the gates to Hell will not open tonight and the battle with demons and warlocks is joined. |
Or at Amazon for slightly more: Amazon STORY: And the Life of the World to Come ANTHOLOGY: Adventures in Other Worlds, edited by Chris Bartholomew Or at Amazon for slightly more:Adventures in Other Worlds DATE: 15 April 2011 "Et vitam venturi saeculi," a Latin phrase at the end of the profession of faith. But do we believe in "a life in the world to come"? Do we have faith? They believed. They devised a resurrection and then they died in the apocalypse. This is the story of their life and the world to come. |
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WEBSITE: Static Movement Shop STORY: Witch Queen of the Dragons ANTHOLOGY: Weird City 2, edited by George Wilhite DATE: August 2011 Susie, Witch Queen of the Dragons and keeper of the Tablets of Destiny, needs a champion swordsman to help her gargoyle friends close a portal to hell. Once married to Domenic the Wizard, Susie must destroy an evil warlock threatening to overwhelm the world with nightmarish dreams and enslave humanity to his whims and desires. |
Or at Amazon for slightly more: Amazon STORY: Death Visits Oktoberfest ANTHOLOGY: Fall Shudders, edited by Dorothy Davies DATE: 2012 An actor playing the character of Death in a morality at an Octoberfest Renaissance Faire decides to party-hearty in costume and pays for his actions. |
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Or at Amazon for slightly more: Poems on Amazon ANTHOLOGY: Poems from the Dark Side, edited by George Wilhite POEMS: "Memorial Glen" and "Festive Rapping" DATE: 16 June 2011 Poems |
STORY: The Toads Croaked at Midnight DATE: 26 June 2011 Read online here: The WiFiles or here: The WiFiles A movie stuntman who is a touch too clueless and too greedy for his own good and makes a deal with a pair of demons. |
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Amazon link: Comes the Night STORY: Avenging Angel Co-authored with Dorothy Davies ANTHOLOGY: Comes the Night, edited by Dorothy Davies DATE: November 2011 A single woman is found by her stalker after many years and tonight, there will be murder... in an urban, dark and demonic way. |
Or at Amazon for slightly more: Will It Go Faster STORY: The Hot Tub Murder ANTHOLOGY: Will It Go Faster If I Push This, edited by C. D. Turner DATE: 27 June 2011 On a world populated by Human-Animal hybrids, a vacationing human is found dead in a hot tub. It is up to seasoned detective, Elias Carson incarnated as a satyr, a green rookie incarnated as a wolf and a prosecutor incarnated as an anteater to solve the world's first murder. What they find is not Royal conspiracy to cheat death, taxes and society but a cold-blooded, heartless murderer, willing to do anything to keep up appearances. |
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AMAZON for slightly more: Daily Flash ANTHOLOGY: Daily Flash 2012: 366 Days of Flash Fiction Flash Fiction: Two Boys At Play DATE: December 2011 A flash fiction about boys in the present and the past playing through a rift in time. |
WEBSITE: Red Skies Press STORY: Who Wants To Date An Alien ANTHOLOGY: First Contact Imminent, edited by Joe Jablonski DATE: 30 Nov 2011 Can a dating show be a weapon of mass destruction? In a bizarre twist of events, an anthropoid lizard and a Tentacle with a big mouth rudely interrupt a man's morning shower. Are they Impresarios from another planet or terrorists unleashing the most dread weapon in the galaxy? Before you can say "Inquiring Minds Want to Know" a mountain is teleported above a capital city and starts to fall... |
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Or at Amazon for slightly more: Amazon ANTHOLOGY: Christmas Fear 2: Unholy Night POEM: OH DRAT! IT'S FROM THE IN-LAWS DATE: December 2011 What is Christmas without gifts? What are In-laws without arguments and retaliations? This is my version of "The Night Before Christmas." |
Or at Amazon for slightly more: Amazon ANTHOLOGY: Christmas Fear 2: Unholy Night STORY: THE BIRTHDAY BOY'S LAST CHRISTMAS DATE: December 2011 Christmas is always bright and cheery, with silver tinsel and red and gold balls and lots of twinkling fairy lights with Cthulhu and a vampire. A time of joy, a time of giving till it hurts, blood that is and human sacrifice. |
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AMAZON for slightly more: Daily Flash ANTHOLOGY: Daily Flash 2012 STORY: Young Sherlock Holmes' Big Crime Spree DATE: December 2011 Is it possible that the great detective was once a common wrongdoer? Is it possible that there is someone more brilliant than Sherlock?
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STORY: Big Name Writer's Writing Seminar DATE: December 8, 2008 A satirical seminar speech from a big name editor |
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POEM: Who Was This Robbie Burns DATE: December 1, 2008 A meditation on New Years Resolutions |
STORY: The Scarecrow DATE: January 28, 2009 Between two friendes, Matt and Wyatt, what kind of sacrifice will one friend make for the other? Available in Download, Paperback, Hardback from Lulu |
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STORY: Scarecrow DATE: April, 2009 A meditation on social isolation and scarecrows on the DeCarteret Ranch Out of print and unavailable online |
Amazon link: Christmas Fear STORY: The Blacksmith's Gift ANTHOLOGY: Christmas Fear - Spooky Stories for the Holidays DATE: November 8, 2010 Sometimes a gift is more than it seems to be at first glance. In this case, all that glitters is not gold but steel. | |
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If you find any mistakes or omissions Please let me know. Send e-mail to dave@fragments.ws |
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