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     Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 66.212.165.169 |
Okay, thought this might be a useful thread for those wishing for something to read online. Here's some links to a few RCMB members fiction that I could find online. Hope no one minds me linking to their stuff. And if you come across any other RCMB tales, please add them to the list. This is all I came across on a quick search. Albie, as noted in an earlier thread has a tale here: http://my.opera.com/Albie/blog/2008/04/18/the-move Gary McMahon has a tale here: http://www.ookami.co.uk/html/london_story.html Joel Lane has a tale here: http://www.pulp.net/fiction/pdfs/joel-lane-wake-up-in-moloch.pdf I have a tale here: http://nossamorte.com/feb08/nervousgoats.html Ally has some extracts at her website: http://www.birdsnest.me.uk/extracts.htm San has a tale here: http://www.ookami.co.uk/html/watching.html Stu has a tale here: http://www.ookami.co.uk/html/daddy_s_little_girl.html Richard has a tale here: http://www.ookami.co.uk/html/pain-muse.html Donald has a tale here: http://www.theharrow.com/2001/fiction/lostcause.html | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 66.212.165.169 |
Er, that should say "Sean," not "San." | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.189.45 |
I've got a story, 'The Appointed Time', on my blog: http://nebuly.blogspot.com/ The entries called 'Editing Part One' and 'Editing Part Two' deal, respectively, with what's involved in editing for All Hallows, and three occasions when people sent in plagiarised stories as original submissions. | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 66.212.165.169 |
Yes, of course, I quite liked that story Barbara. I've never quite understood the mindset that someone must be in to plagiarize someone else's work. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.107.117 |
Thanks Michael - The story that one of the extracts is from is here :>) http://www.hub-mag.co.uk/images/Hub_7.pdf | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.107.117 |
And before anyone says anything I do know how to spell impaled :>) | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
I have a story here: http://www.theharrow.com/journal/index.php/journal/article/view/2274/671 However, it's quite old, and I'm sort of embarrassed to show it to anyone. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
I have three plays at www.efilsgod.piczo.com click on the link labeled plays | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.48.112 |
An early story of mine that I still love is at: http://www.grayfriarpress.com/ophelia.html | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
And I have one here, though it's also a very early work, and I'm frankly embarrassed by it. Still, we all get better, don't we? http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Meh, it is a bit derivative, Fry.  | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.107.117 |
John - I have always adored that story! | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.48.112 |
Hey - thanks Ally! It'll find its way into a collection at some point | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.109.177.51 |
It's probably not horror, not intentionally anyway, but I'm here: http://www.abyssandapex.com/200601-WinterAstronaut.html | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.98.204 |
I've got a 500-worder here http://www.house-of-pain.com/fictionarchives/2002/fiction12-07-02.html | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Some good writing there. Let me get this straight. I thought the Joel that came here wasn't THE Joel lane. Is that still true? I would consider changing your name, cos that's a pretty good story. Made me feel weird. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.46.71 |
Good stuff Mark - I'm a fan of homage stories. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
To clarify: there was no bad writing there. All good. Not just SOME. But I AM afraid of spiders still. And water and strangers and the dark and ghosts and weird lumps of pink plastic melted on the pavement. The one with the goats would rank a little higher than the others, although still behind Joel and his machines. What would elevate ALL the stories, including mine, would be more of that Ramsey Campbell description to involve the reader. You know, something beyond shapes and more about the texture of the scenery. Those moments that stick in the memory, which make Campbell's stories so...sticky. Do that and you don't need to impassion the reader by basically telling him/her to be impassioned (as most fiction tends to do.) Involve them sensually (no, not sex!) and the rest of the mind will follow. Description is the most fluid part of writing a story, and is therefore is a constant opportunity to be original and therefore memorable hence alive and involving. But you knew all that. Tomorrow...the art of losing your mind, and not getting arrested. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
DAMMIT! I was looking real dangerous and I ruined it with a typo. Which is another thing... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.161.253.183 |
'Description is the most fluid part of writing a story' Yes. I picked up a kids book yesterday, Skullduggery Pleasant, and it had NO atmosphere. Atmosphere is like steps taking you somewhere; no steps and you're just watching. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
That's why I can't read kid's fiction. ABARAT is terrible for me. He describes nothing. It's not like you have to double the size of a book to get across the scenery. That's the talent of Campbell with description. One line here and there, used at the right time, and that's enough to go beyond words into sensations. Why do we never see that?! WHY LORD!! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.161.253.183 |
My youngest likes atmosphere; I read him and his brother ghost stories and they're their favourites (well, his mostly). Last week he read a whole ghost story book in one day, eyes wide with that 'look' we all know in them. The young Bond books by Higson have atmosphere, mind; the last one had a big empty ship being taken apart for one location. It was dead creepy. maybe that's why kids like ghosts books, gien the chance, because they can eneter the stories more, they depend on atmosphere? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Maybe we prefer atmosphere to plot. Maybe too much plot destroys atmosphere. Atmos can be conjured in a few words, and plot needs to unravel slowly. Atmos is the instant pay off. Maybe we are just impatient then. Hoho. Or, unknowingly, fans of poetry. Atmos is the poetry in prose. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
And funnily, a dream can develop a plot in a second, or even have brought in the plot before you start dreaming. Or even weeks afterwards. If you figure it out. And the atmosphere is all encompassing and comes from nowhere. Maybe dreams start with atmos and the plots are born from it. Hence they mirror events in our life, but disguised (due to being born from something as ambiguous as emotions) | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.161.253.183 |
You see, writers don't seem to read enough poetry. It makes you cram a place or a time into a line or two. To be able to catch that tlittle telling image is a gift, one that to look at stuff on the shelves seems to have vanished. I do this thing in this bloody book I'm writing of describing little things around the people who are talking, describing a plant or something in the middle of a conversation, stuff like that. I think I'm writing a book that is basically all just atmosphere with people just talking about ghosts and aliens in it. Hey ho. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Emotions we may have only felt for a split second in waking hours, stretched out into a ten minute dream. Examined in full. By the plots that grow from it. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.161.253.183 |
To dreams plot and atmosphere seem glued together. Imagine a brother you never knew you had being at your door when you got home; atmos and plot in one horrible go. Bango. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.161.253.183 |
Bango? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
That's it Tone.If you can take a story and take lines of poetry from it, then it will work as a story. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.161.253.183 |
I have often thought that an idea is enough. I try with my writing not to have style but ideas in the sentences. Little nudges towards something, bland as a stick but making you go someplace. | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.66.110 |
Don't get me wrong, I love stylistic writing, but it needs to wrap around a damn fine story. I find it hard reading stuff that is all style over substance. Conversely, a great story written in a bland, linear style is also frustrating. Then again, it likely isn't a great story if written in such a way. Hmmm, obviously I'm nattering. Albie, is there another Joel Lane? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
It's the words that count. I agree with Albie. I once said somewhere that a writer can do as much damage with a phrase as s/he can with a great tale. And together, that's a formidable combo. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Which is why RC is the guvnor for me: he's a master of both. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.106.58 |
I don't actually have any fiction up at the site yet (I've been considering putting a story up soon though), but I write articles about old time horror writers such as Hodgeson, M.R. James, E.F. Benson etc. for The Vintage Horror site.  http://www.vintagehorror.com/blog/3 | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.65.204 |
"Albie, is there another Joel Lane?" No, but I do timeshare. As Simon can attest. :-) | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.109.186.147 |
>>Good stuff Mark - I'm a fan of homage stories. Thanks, Aly. Some people like that one, some people REALLY don't. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.109.186.147 |
>>I picked up a kids book yesterday, Skullduggery Pleasant I've got that somewhere, Tony. You're right. What I read of it was all romp and fun; there was no real atmosphere or sense of real jeopardy or danger. Safe ghouls. More post-Buffy stuff. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
So you are the real Joel Lane. Well that disqualifies you from this tournament, as you are too well known. You will have to hand back the week's supply of Germolene I awarded you. Just scrape what you can back into the tube. "Don't get me wrong, I love stylistic writing, but it needs to wrap around a damn fine story. " Oh, don't get me wrong. A plot is the cherry on top of the other cherries. Although consider many of Ramsey's tales. The Companion, for instance. Not exactly War and Peace for plot. Sometimes atmosphere is enough. It would be difficult to get away from at least some skeletal framework of plot. Horses for courses. Frogs for bogs. I do like to simply read the first pages of a story and never go back. What am I saying? My response would be: What is the world of fiction saying? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Global warming is being caused by the rubbing of millions of chins. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
http://efilsgod.piczo.com/?g=49921989&cr=5 My story | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243 |
Albie, I'm not THE Joel Lane because there isn't one. There's just me. And some guy who owned a mansion in the USA in the 18th century. And wasn't me. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
Or so you say. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Neat tale, Weber. Liked the line at the end about his heart. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Yeah, Joel's just like Joseph Curwen. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Ta Gazza. I'm not certain if the ending is funny or deeply disturbing. Does that happen to any of you guys who write lots? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
There's a fine line between horror and humour, for sure. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
I've sent you two emails, GF. But no reply! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
I replied to the first, Griff. Never got a second. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243 |
Never trust anyone over three hundred, Gary. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Unless it's a tortoise. I mean, they may say they're going not going to steal your silver when they use the lav, but they're hardly likely to make a quick getaway. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.9.1 |
I've a story up on the Black Petals site. The first paragraph has been changed - I didn't write it like that. It should read "It took a long time to push, with a struggling will, to that higher part of Alice’s mind where she could not tell reality from insanity, between what was imagined and the supernatural. In her indecision she was suffering. That night she had tampered with doors that should not be opened, pushed the car over the cliff with herself in it and unknowingly had unleashed something from deep within her subconscious or another place, where dark things live, where creatures as old as time, formless but nonetheless still dangerous dwelt." I didn't write "feminine feet" at the end - it isn't me. One or two others things not right too. And the credits at the end too - some of them wrong. Deathside, In a Pig's Ear, Silence is Golden/The Asylum were are accepted by Grafika and Maniac Press but the presses both went out of business before they saw print. It will be right - however when it goes into Bull Running for Girls. A big thank you to Ramsey who partly influenced the tale - in the writing of Scared Stiff. http://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/blackpetalsissue43/id8.html | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Nice little tale, Weber - very wry. I liked it. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I replied on the other thread, Web slinger. So, Joel Lane IS Joel lane. This changes everything. I want to construct a horror landscape. I have Joel LANE and a Joe HILL... Mind, until someone called Oxygen writes horror then nobody will be able to live there... | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
Joel, what does this mean? Goshdammit I get so confused :-( | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.92.51.67 |
Thanks to Simon for starting this thread (and welcome back to this message board, by the way!) I've decided to add a link to the only other piece of online fiction I have. "Palace of Shadows" is what might be called a "moving comic" that I wrote in late 2002. The illustrator was Michael Ramseur. For those who might not be familiar with Michael's work, he is a fine artist and is the world's foremost authority on Danvers State Hospital; the now-destroyed mental hospital in Massachusetts where the great film Session 9 was shot. Michael was deeply involved with that movie, and I was very honoured to collaborate with him on "Palace of Shadows." I wrote this piece from the point of view of the hosptial itself. The prose is pretty good, but naturally I can't help but see a few warts since the script is now six years old. Here is the link. Be sure to have your computer's speakers on; "Palace..." actually makes for a chilly little multimedia experience: http://www.angelfire.com/id2/DanversStateHosp/palaceofshadows.html Best, Richard | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
I live in the weak and the wounded. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
You're welcome, Richard (though I think you don't credit Mike Kelly enough -- even though I DID do most of the work) | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.157.44.133 |
Oops! Geez, sorry about that Mike. I thank *you* for starting this thread. Seems those English reading lessons I've been paying Simon Strantzas for have no be goodly. Maybe he learn me how to name read someday. How I do, teacher Simon? More lessons yes/no? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
I just finished OMENS recently, Richard - I enjoyed it a great deal. Some of the tales affected me more than others, of course, but the best ones (Down Among the Relics, The Pale Lover, Daniel) were very good indeed. The book has a cumulative effect; I felt that reading 2 or 3 stories ina row worked better than simply "dipping in", as I usually do with collections. Good stuff, mate. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
I'm a big fan of Richard's work. In fact, I think it's safe to say his work and a certain Mr McMahon's are my favourites coming from "the new weird" movement. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.157.41.65 |
Gentlemen -- Your sentiments really warm my heart. I mean that with total sincerity. The pair of you are not only well read in this branch of literature, but are also damn fine writers, so I have faith in your abilities to tell the wheat from the chaff. I'm thrilled to know my work falls in the former category. Now who's up for a big group hug? Gary: I appreciate your observations of the "cumulative effect" of OMENS. That was certainly my intention when selecting and laying out the ToC. I wanted a type of crescendo, where themes and motifs built upon one another, until I finally deliver what I hoped to be a devastating knock-out punch with "Evoking the Horrors." Simon: I can truthfully say that I feel the same about your work within the "new weird" movement. Because there is so much high-quality horror coming out through the small presses these days, I often wonder if critics and future readers (assuming of course that there will still be homo Sapiens a hundred years from now, and that said homo Sapiens will still be reading books) will look back at this era the same way we look back at, say, the 1920s-40s pulp era that marked the rise of Lovecraft, Smith, Bloch, Leiber, etc.? | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
It's obviously hard to say, living during it and being a part of it (however marginally) but it certainly feels like there is a new wave of horror fiction going on right now, and I dare say it won't be long before some enterprising editors starts exploiting it and getting some of these authors (again, not me) some attention beyond the small presses. It's good to see the genre breathing again, even if those breaths are short, faint, and rapid. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 98.220.108.241 |
When was it not breathing? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Although there is some sensational work coming out of the small press, it's outnumbered by the crap. Unfortunately, the crap sells - alas, it seems that people would rather buy another zombie novel than a carefully-developed, well-written piece of weird fiction. I have high hopes for the new Virgin line in terms of what you say, Simon - any line that tries to bring the likes of Williams and Ligotti to a mass market audience gets my vote. And, of course, they are returning Campbell to his rightful place on the bookshops shelves. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Maybe there was a higher degree of younger people getting into horror, Because of all that Point Horror stuff. And because it's hip to be dark these days, apparently. "The Goths get younger these days, don't they, Ethel?" "I want to be called Evil, not Ethel." They are living longer too. The Goths. What with the less poisonous eyeliner and face whitener. Oh, I remember the day when arsenic was all the rage. They were dropping like flies. I blame everything on the Goths, don't I? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
It's only fair, seeing as I blame it all on chavs. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
I blame it all on Rupert Murdoch. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
I blame it on the rain. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
I blame it all on the bellboy. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.53.130 |
Don't blame it on the weather man. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.60 |
I blame it on the boogie, but then that's me. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.53.130 |
Ah - beat me to it Mick! Are you coming to BFSCon - haven't seen you two for over a year now and I miss you! | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
less poisonous face whitener... hmm that just reminded me that last night I DREAMED of face whitener. Why ever would I do that??? I also had a dream where this woman and her child went into a forest, as they crossed the tree threshold it became an animated world. Once in there, she was all blue (also animated) and she plucked the eyeballs from her animated child's eye sockets before vanishing into the woods. The blind child felt where his eyes previously were housed, and found a ruby that his mother had replaced one of his peepers with. Disoriented, he slowly made his way down the wooded path. I have NO idea what that meant... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.53.130 |
Adriana - I had this strange dream last night that I was on an large Spanish galleon. The sea was washing over the lower deck. It had three wooden decks and I was on the top deck but went down to the lower one. When I came back the bottom of my sandals was an inch thick with maggots but I knew that I could clean them off eventually. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Oh god, the maggots would have made me hurl. That sounds like some serious anxiety - but interestingly enough, sounds like you know you'll rise above it... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.53.130 |
Very true Adriana - nothing if not a survivor :>) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.60 |
Ah - beat me to it Mick! Are you coming to BFSCon - haven't seen you two for over a year now and I miss you! Weeeeeeeell - still "um-ing" and ah-ing" at the moment - it'd be great to catch up with folk again, but... Not that fussed about the convention, though - although we haven't yet decided not to go either! And Simon's going to be there - that has to be a draw! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Mick, you have to come, mate. I'm bringing the wife, and I'd like her to meet as many of you wonderful, crazy, lovely, bonkers people as humanly possible. :-) Seriously, I have to convince her that I'm not the only person like this in the world... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Yes, Emily met me and found me so respectably normal that she's thinking that she accidentally married a psychopath. Meeting Simon will cure her of that. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
Aw, shucks. Thanks, Gary. I . . . wait a minute  | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
Not that it's really a motivating factor, but the odds of me making the trip over the ocean for another of these is so small and remote that if anyone is interested in meeting/seeing me again, they ought to either attend this conference or somehow track me down in London just before. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I dreamt I bought a car but then I was scared about driving. Then the car became a toy and I was annoyed I'd wasted my money. Obviously a discussion over my inability to grow up and to accept that I WANTED to not grow up. What a boring waste of a dream. I could have have been in Adriana's wood! Plucking eyes! | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.107.100 |
This story went online so long ago I'd completely forgot about it -- http://www.shadow-writer.co.uk/waiting.htm Wouldn't mind some feedback on this one. I was never completely happy with the story and could never decide exactly how bad it was. So maybe someone could tell me whether it's a case of, "Hmm, it's okay but could be better" or if it's more, "Oh my God, this is the worst story I've ever read in my entire life!" Well, that'll certainly encourage people to read it. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.161.241.208 |
I've got over a *thousand* DFL stories on-line (new as well as previously published ones) on the http://weirdmonger.mindsay.com/reinvented_wheel.mws | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.66.68 |
Hmmm, well, the first half is quite good, up until she sees the newscast. After that, for me, it seems a bit rushed and there's no real explanation for the manifestations. So, yeah, I'm in the "It's okay but could be better" camp. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.161.241.208 |
I should have said over 1000 stories on the THE WEIRDMONGER WHEEL! | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.66.68 |
Simon may be a bit uncomfortable (or maybe not) pointing to his work, so I'll just note he has a tale from his forthcoming collection available here: http://www.oozingbrain.com/strantzas_glass.pdf | ||
| Grant (Grant) Username: Grant Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.176.207.225 |
I have little short here. http://www.365tomorrows.com/05/25/rags/ And the story by Simon is pretty good if I say so myself. | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.66.132 |
Very nice last line, Grant. Indeed, Simon is a good one. | ||
| Grant (Grant) Username: Grant Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.176.207.225 |
Thanks,Mike. | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.66.251 |
Oh, the fine folks at Humdrumming have made available my British Fantasy Award-nominated short, "The Kraken." http://www.humdrumming.co.uk/books/samples/978-1-905532-48-3_Kraken_BFS.pdf | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.88.67 |
Just popping in to say another short of mine has been published at Flash Fiction Online. http://www.flashfictiononline.com/f20080803-on-the-road-with-rutger-michael-kell y.html | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Weirdmonger Wheel Over a thousand previously print-published stories free on-line. http://weirdmonger.mindsay.com/reinvented_wheel.mws | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
http://www.garymcmahon.com/2006/05/testy.html | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
One good story is better than a thousand poor ones. | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.108.59 |
Mike, cheers for the feedback on my story. The webpage for my e-book SHARDS OF DREAMS is back up along with an extract from the first story. The formatting has gone to hell though, with all the speechmarks changed to question marks. Also, some grammatical errors have crept in that weren't present in the orginal manuscript. Bloody computers. Anyway, it's at http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/single.php?ISBN=1-55404-134-1 if anyone's interested. | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 66.212.165.114 |
And I have a new story, "If You Only Look Down, There Will Never be Star," here: http://nossamorte.com/nov08_issue/if_you_only_look_down.html | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.97.93.216 |
What the hell: http://futurefire.net/2007.08/fiction/pianissimo.html | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Yeah, what the hell: http://www.thisisull.com/fiction/dannyswain/379614673_dannyswaintheday.html | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Nice writing from the above two fellas. Well worth a gander. Alan's story had a definite sense of fascination. Although most of it left me cold as I do not get on well with stuff of the heart. I'm a robot, you see. | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.97.93.216 |
Hey, thanks, even if I didn't quite manage to tug on your heart ... er, fibre optic nano filaments? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Nice stories guys. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Nice? Let's get him. I know where he buries his trousers for safe keeping. We can wear them, all muddy...and laugh. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Just giving this a bump so I can read the stories when I have the time...move on; nothing to see here. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
For those interested, my story from THE SECOND HUMDRUMMING BOOK OF HORROR STORIES is available at HorrorWorld http://www.horrorworld.org/humdrumming.htm John L Probert had some nice things to say about it elsewhere, and I'm hoping he chooses to reiterate them again here so I might feel all warm and fuzzy inside. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.251.97.92 |
My short story [i]"Midnight in 411"[/i] is posted over in The Horror Stories section of The Vintage Horror site, or you can follow the link below to get to my blog post on it, and find it from there. [url]http://www.vintagehorror.com/node/122[/url] | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 192.206.151.130 |
Try this link to get direct to Matt's story. http://www.vintagehorror.com/node/118 | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.251.97.92 |
"Try this link to get direct to Matt's story." Thanks, Michael. The first link is to the blog where I give a little info on the story and a link. The other one will take you directly to the story itself. | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 174.88.168.249 |
And I've a very short piece, "Stains," here: http://everydayweirdness.com/e/20090528/ | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
http://coaction.wordpress.com/fiction-2/ | ||
| Nathaniel Tapley (Natt) Username: Natt Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 78.146.245.79 |
For those who are interested there is an occasional piece of flash fiction up at the In The Gloaming site. Here, for example: http://inthegloamingpodcasts.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/hoofprints-in-the-snow/ Or here: http://inthegloamingpodcasts.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/minigloam-little-monsters/ Or, for a 6-worder, here: http://inthegloamingpodcasts.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/mini-minigloam/ | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Ooo, I hadn't seen this thread before until Weber resurrected it. Some more things for me to read online (so long as they're not too long and hurt my eyes). Funnily enough, any fiction I've ever had online has now vanished as the sites concerned have been taken down. I really don't know if there's a connection between someone agreeing to publish my fiction online and then suddenly everything goes wrong for them ...  | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
A story of mine now online at Dark Valentine:http://darkvalentine.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Dark_Valentine_Summer_2010.p df | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
http://www.houseofhorror.org.uk/#/the-house/4543293980 Apparently I have a story in issue 15 but because I don't have flashplayer on my PC I can't get in to see it. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Issue 14 is up, mate, but not issue 15. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Issue 15 should be halfway down the page apparently - if you're in the text version of the site you can't see it though. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
http://www.houseofhorror.org.uk/#/bad-teeth/4543295758 Here it is, mate. Congrats, Weber/Marc. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
I have one of my stories here: http://johnforth.wordpress.com/short-stories-2/him/ Rubbish ending and all. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Oh, what the hell. Two golden oldies of mine: http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/creeping.html http://www.shadow-writer.co.uk/wait1.html | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
For some strange reason, all the places where I had online flash fiction accepted have now closed down. Hmmm .. I wonder if there was a connection there?  | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Oh bugger, I just realised I posted something similar to the above when this thread popped up before - I'd completely forgotten until it was resurrected again. Gary, can you delete my posts? I look like an idiot. What was that you said? I am an idiot? Oh dear ... | ||
| Rosswarren (Rosswarren) Username: Rosswarren Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 86.171.175.49 |
This seems to be the right place for this: http://www.castingrunes.co.uk/ One of the best unpublished writers out there IMO he has many of his stories posted to read for free on his website and he's a nice guy to boot! 'Inner Demons' is a particular highlight. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
My story in House Of Horror is to be printed in their Best Of collection for this year. For every copy sold where the orderer mentions my name, I make $5... Just thought I'd mention it. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
http://www.houseofhorror.org.uk/#/book-shop/4535143845 | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Nice one, mate. Congrats | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 82.6.94.181 |
http://futurefire.net/2009.16/fiction/contractor.html http://futurefire.net/2008.12/fiction/kemistry.html Another what the hell. I like this thread, instant access to some very tasty stories. It's like having an anthology tht grows in your hands. I'll read through them systematically and tell you what I think. Cheers Terry | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
"Why Ghosts Wail: a Brief Memoir". This one's taken from my collection, How to Make Monsters, and it's nice to see it get another viewing in time for Halloween at the Beyond Fiction website. http://beyondfiction.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/why-ghosts-wail-a-brief-memoir/ | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
I'm all depressed now. Very good story Mr Zed. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Thanks, mate - much appreciated. I was quite depressed when I wrote it, late one Christmas Eve. |