Last week’s stats: I posted my own blog on schedule, but fell short on my commenting (and I wonder why no one comments on MY blog…) No stories returned from market last week. “Calling Down Lightning” has gone back out to market (I can’t tell where to – it’s a secret); all I can say … Continue reading
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Fractured Fragment Friday: “Inheritance” (and lots of coupons!)
“Inheritance” came from a combination of grave-robbers, the artifacts AND servants buried in tombs, and a touch of being careful what you wish for. Wealth isn’t always what you think, and just as one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, it works in reverse, too. Here’s the blurb: When Amun discovers that his family is … Continue reading
Fractured Fragment Friday: “Through Her Eyes” (and a coupon!)
“Through Her Eyes” was triggered by a writing challenge (which I never entered) about the victim of a haunting. I thought of letting a ghost communicate with her blind former lover by passing what she was seeing into his mind. The story I originally envisioned was much longer than “Through Her Eyes” became, but I … Continue reading
Fractured Fragment Friday: “Quiet!” (and a coupon!)
“Quiet!” was finished in 2012 – the 10th story I completed, the sixth one I ePubbed, and as of this writing appears to be my most read story – whether it is because of reader interest in the Apollo program, or some other strange quirk that has gotten past my own feeble marketing failures, I … Continue reading
Fractured Fragment Friday: “Business is Business” (and a coupon!)
“Business is Business” was an attempt to tell Rumplestiltskin from a perspective that made the fairy tale a fairer tale. I always felt the miller’s daughter in the original tale was a bit too innocent to be believable. Her father lied, the King was greedy, she makes a deal with the gold-spinner, gets what she … Continue reading
Fractured Fragment Friday: “Passed Life” (and a coupon!)
Well, having finished excerpts from all my Detective Jimmy Delaney stories, it’s time to start back at the beginning of my short fiction. When I decided to take up the pen as my creative outlet in the early part of this millennia, I wasn’t yet churning out ideas, and wanted something that meant something to … Continue reading
Fractured Fragment Friday: “The Scent of the Crime” (and a coupon!)
Our memories are really tied tightly into scents, and I wondered if it might be possible to use the combination of scents from a crime scene to trigger a reaction that would give away the perpetrator – that was the idea that launched “The Scent of the Crime.” And of course, the idea that scent … Continue reading
