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Flush Fiction Giveaway

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Flush Fiction from BRI
Find "Excuse Me" in the new Flush Fiction anthology from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.

You can win a free copy of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader‘s first fiction compilation: Flush Fiction.

Flush Fiction includes 88 single-sitting stories including some by friends  of mine.  Oh yeah, my own infamous tale of time-traveling flatulence, “Excuse Me”. I you like flash fiction, you’ll love Flush Fiction.  Go buy it!

All you have to do is retweet the key message to be entered to win a free copy of the book.  I’ll pick one lucky retweeter around the end of the month.  Also accepting Facebook re-postings and links to this post, as long as I can track them and get in touch with you if you win.

Winner to be announced April 20th (or thereabouts).

You can find my recent tweets in the right margin or just click here to go to My Twitter Feed.

Thanks, good luck, and happy retweeting!

free stuff from my past

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I dug through a file on my computer called “sold stories” and found some gems that will not likely be sold as reprints unless I make it big or need filler for my own anthology. Not to say they were bad stories — they sold, didn’t they? — but they aree clearly from my past.

I decided to post one of those stories here, despite mixed opinions from my readers.  The story I’m posting (right now) is “Blood of a Soldier”, my 5000-word military-vampire story.  It’s probably more science fiction than it is horror, but it does get a touch graphic.  I am more disturbed by some of the amateur flags I flew throughout the story (watch for my not-too-blatant “said bookisms”).  Still, there are a few well-turned phrases and a lot of my preferred direct style.  Surprisingly there is little in the way of dialog; I feel I’m usually strong with dialog and fill stories with it because of that.

Anyway, this is where I’ve been.  Stories like this got me this far.  Depending on its reception, I mayreplace it sometime in the future, but it’ll be here for a while.  I don’t have a trunk of pieces I’m ready to fling around for free…at least not yet.  Maybe someday.  For now, enjoy.