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Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
Username: Michael_kelly

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 66.212.165.169
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 04:52 pm:   

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
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Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
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Posted From: 66.212.165.169
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 04:53 pm:   

Er, that should say "Sean," not "San."
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Barbara Roden (Nebuly)
Username: Nebuly

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 216.232.189.45
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 05:05 pm:   

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.
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Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
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Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 05:15 pm:   

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.
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Allybird (Allybird)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 79.70.107.117
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 05:19 pm:   

Thanks Michael - The story that one of the extracts is from is here :>)
http://www.hub-mag.co.uk/images/Hub_7.pdf
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Allybird (Allybird)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 79.70.107.117
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 05:20 pm:   

And before anyone says anything I do know how to spell impaled :>)
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Chris_morris (Chris_morris)
Username: Chris_morris

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 12.165.240.116
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 06:13 pm:   

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.
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 83.98.9.4
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 06:20 pm:   

I have three plays at www.efilsgod.piczo.com

click on the link labeled plays
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John_l_probert (John_l_probert)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 90.208.48.112
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 07:31 pm:   

An early story of mine that I still love is at:

http://www.grayfriarpress.com/ophelia.html
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.24.122.40
Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 08:16 pm:   

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
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Griff (Griff)
Username: Griff

Registered: 03-2008
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Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 09:19 pm:   

Meh, it is a bit derivative, Fry.
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Allybird (Allybird)
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Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 09:30 pm:   

John - I have always adored that story!
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John_l_probert (John_l_probert)
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Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 10:01 pm:   

Hey - thanks Ally!

It'll find its way into a collection at some point
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 88.109.177.51
Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 11:34 pm:   

It's probably not horror, not intentionally anyway, but I'm here:

http://www.abyssandapex.com/200601-WinterAstronaut.html
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 86.29.98.204
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 09:44 am:   

I've got a 500-worder here http://www.house-of-pain.com/fictionarchives/2002/fiction12-07-02.html
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Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.195.236.131
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 11:52 am:   

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.
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Allybird (Allybird)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 79.70.46.71
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 11:54 am:   

Good stuff Mark - I'm a fan of homage stories.
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Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.195.236.131
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 12:06 pm:   

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.
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Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.195.236.131
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 12:07 pm:   

DAMMIT! I was looking real dangerous and I ruined it with a typo.

Which is another thing...
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.161.253.183
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 12:17 pm:   

'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.
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Albie (Albie)
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 12:28 pm:   

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!!
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 12:38 pm:   

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?
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Albie (Albie)
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 01:16 pm:   

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.
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Albie (Albie)
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 01:20 pm:   

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)
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 86.161.253.183
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 01:21 pm:   

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.
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Albie (Albie)
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 01:22 pm:   

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.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 01:22 pm:   

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.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 86.161.253.183
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 01:23 pm:   

Bango?
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Albie (Albie)
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 01:23 pm:   

That's it Tone.If you can take a story and take lines of poetry from it, then it will work as a story.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 86.161.253.183
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 01:28 pm:   

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.
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Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
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Posted From: 207.188.66.110
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 04:23 pm:   

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?
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Posted From: 86.24.122.40
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 04:34 pm:   

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.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 04:35 pm:   

Which is why RC is the guvnor for me: he's a master of both.
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Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan)
Username: Matt_cowan

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 68.249.106.58
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 06:46 pm:   

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
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

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Posted From: 86.159.65.204
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 06:50 pm:   

"Albie, is there another Joel Lane?"

No, but I do timeshare. As Simon can attest. :-)
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 88.109.186.147
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 07:28 pm:   

>>Good stuff Mark - I'm a fan of homage stories.

Thanks, Aly. Some people like that one, some people REALLY don't.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 07:40 pm:   

>>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.
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Albie (Albie)
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Posted From: 195.195.236.131
Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 11:59 am:   

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?
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Albie (Albie)
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Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 12:01 pm:   

Global warming is being caused by the rubbing of millions of chins.
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 83.98.9.4
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 02:11 pm:   

http://efilsgod.piczo.com/?g=49921989&cr=5


My story
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.156.110.243
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 02:52 pm:   

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.
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Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
Username: Nomis

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 38.113.181.169
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 02:53 pm:   

Or so you say.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.24.122.40
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 03:35 pm:   

Neat tale, Weber. Liked the line at the end about his heart.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 03:37 pm:   

Yeah, Joel's just like Joseph Curwen.
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
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Posted From: 83.98.9.4
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 04:20 pm:   

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?
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Posted From: 86.24.122.40
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 04:24 pm:   

There's a fine line between horror and humour, for sure.
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Griff (Griff)
Username: Griff

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.100
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 04:28 pm:   

I've sent you two emails, GF.

But no reply!
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.24.122.40
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 04:35 pm:   

I replied to the first, Griff. Never got a second.
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.156.110.243
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 05:10 pm:   

Never trust anyone over three hundred, Gary.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.24.122.40
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 05:18 pm:   

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.
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Allybird (Allybird)
Username: Allybird

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 79.70.9.1
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 05:29 pm:   

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
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.249.146
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 09:05 pm:   

Nice little tale, Weber - very wry. I liked it.
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Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.195.236.131
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 12:45 pm:   

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...
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Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
Username: Nomis

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 38.113.181.169
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 01:57 pm:   


quote:

"Albie, is there another Joel Lane?"

No, but I do timeshare. As Simon can attest. :-)




Joel, what does this mean? Goshdammit I get so confused :-(
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Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin)
Username: Richard_gavin

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 65.92.51.67
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 09:22 pm:   

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
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.249.146
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 10:55 pm:   

I live in the weak and the wounded.
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Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
Username: Nomis

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 38.113.181.169
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 10:56 pm:   

You're welcome, Richard (though I think you don't credit Mike Kelly enough -- even though I DID do most of the work)
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Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin)
Username: Richard_gavin

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 69.157.44.133
Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 12:49 am:   

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?
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.249.146
Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 01:09 am:   

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.
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Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
Username: Nomis

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 99.225.111.224
Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 01:51 am:   

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.
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Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 69.157.41.65
Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 02:30 am:   

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.?
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Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 03:54 am:   

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.
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Chris_morris (Chris_morris)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 06:28 am:   

When was it not breathing?
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 10:44 am:   

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.
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Albie (Albie)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 01:24 pm:   

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?
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 04:53 pm:   

It's only fair, seeing as I blame it all on chavs.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 05:39 pm:   

I blame it all on Rupert Murdoch.
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Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 06:00 pm:   

I blame it on the rain.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 06:02 pm:   

I blame it all on the bellboy.
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Allybird (Allybird)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 06:33 pm:   

Don't blame it on the weather man.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 08:10 pm:   

I blame it on the boogie, but then that's me.
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Allybird (Allybird)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 08:57 pm:   

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!
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Adriana (Adriana)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 08:59 pm:   

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...
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Allybird (Allybird)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 09:12 pm:   

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.
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Adriana (Adriana)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 09:27 pm:   

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...
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Allybird (Allybird)
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 09:56 pm:   

Very true Adriana - nothing if not a survivor :>)
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 12:11 am:   

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!
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 03:29 am:   

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...
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 10:04 am:   

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.
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Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
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Posted From: 99.225.111.224
Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 11:35 am:   

Aw, shucks. Thanks, Gary. I . . .

wait a minute

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Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
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Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 11:38 am:   

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.
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Albie (Albie)
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Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 12:21 pm:   

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!
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Stu (Stu)
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Posted on Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 04:38 pm:   

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.
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Des (Des)
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Posted From: 86.161.241.208
Posted on Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 06:05 pm:   

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
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Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
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Posted on Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 06:16 pm:   

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.
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Des (Des)
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Posted on Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 06:23 pm:   

I should have said over 1000 stories on the THE WEIRDMONGER WHEEL!
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Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
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Posted on Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 07:38 pm:   

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
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Grant (Grant)
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Posted From: 67.176.207.225
Posted on Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 11:42 pm:   

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.
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Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
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Posted From: 207.188.66.132
Posted on Sunday, June 15, 2008 - 04:14 pm:   

Very nice last line, Grant.

Indeed, Simon is a good one.
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Grant (Grant)
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Posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 - 03:12 am:   

Thanks,Mike.
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Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
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Posted From: 207.188.66.251
Posted on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 04:21 pm:   

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
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Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
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Posted on Saturday, August 02, 2008 - 05:32 pm:   

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
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Des (Des)
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Posted From: 86.163.170.232
Posted on Saturday, August 02, 2008 - 07:15 pm:   

Weirdmonger Wheel
Over a thousand previously print-published stories free on-line.
http://weirdmonger.mindsay.com/reinvented_wheel.mws
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted From: 81.96.242.126
Posted on Saturday, August 02, 2008 - 07:41 pm:   

http://www.garymcmahon.com/2006/05/testy.html
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Des (Des)
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Posted From: 86.163.170.232
Posted on Saturday, August 02, 2008 - 08:09 pm:   

One good story is better than a thousand poor ones.
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Stu (Stu)
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Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 86.29.108.59
Posted on Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 11:16 am:   

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.
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Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
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Posted on Monday, November 03, 2008 - 01:30 pm:   

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
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Alansjf (Alansjf)
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Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 93.97.93.216
Posted on Monday, November 03, 2008 - 07:29 pm:   

What the hell:

http://futurefire.net/2007.08/fiction/pianissimo.html
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Albie (Albie)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.195.244.67
Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 01:05 pm:   

Yeah, what the hell:

http://www.thisisull.com/fiction/dannyswain/379614673_dannyswaintheday.html
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Albie (Albie)
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Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 12:14 pm:   

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.
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Alansjf (Alansjf)
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Posted From: 93.97.93.216
Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 06:14 pm:   

Hey, thanks, even if I didn't quite manage to tug on your heart ... er, fibre optic nano filaments?
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
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Posted From: 83.98.9.4
Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 06:55 pm:   

Nice stories guys.
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Albie (Albie)
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Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 12:19 pm:   

Nice?

Let's get him. I know where he buries his trousers for safe keeping. We can wear them, all muddy...and laugh.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Friday, November 07, 2008 - 11:53 am:   

Just giving this a bump so I can read the stories when I have the time...move on; nothing to see here.
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Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
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Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 38.113.181.169
Posted on Friday, November 07, 2008 - 02:16 pm:   

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.
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Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan)
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Posted From: 68.251.97.92
Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 02:32 am:   

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]
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Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 192.206.151.130
Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 06:03 am:   

Try this link to get direct to Matt's story.

http://www.vintagehorror.com/node/118
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Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan)
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Posted From: 68.251.97.92
Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 04:24 pm:   

"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.
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Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
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Posted From: 174.88.168.249
Posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2009 - 06:33 am:   

And I've a very short piece, "Stains," here:

http://everydayweirdness.com/e/20090528/
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.56
Posted on Monday, April 19, 2010 - 06:00 pm:   

http://coaction.wordpress.com/fiction-2/
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Nathaniel Tapley (Natt)
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Registered: 11-2009
Posted From: 78.146.245.79
Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 06:09 pm:   

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/
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
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Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 07:21 pm:   

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 ...
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Frank (Frank)
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Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.72
Posted on Friday, June 11, 2010 - 09:20 pm:   

A story of mine now online at Dark Valentine:http://darkvalentine.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Dark_Valentine_Summer_2010.p df
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 03:18 pm:   

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.
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Frank (Frank)
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Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 03:28 pm:   

Issue 14 is up, mate, but not issue 15.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 03:40 pm:   

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.
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Frank (Frank)
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Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 03:47 pm:   

http://www.houseofhorror.org.uk/#/bad-teeth/4543295758 Here it is, mate. Congrats, Weber/Marc.
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John Forth (John)
Username: John

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 09:43 pm:   

I have one of my stories here: http://johnforth.wordpress.com/short-stories-2/him/ Rubbish ending and all.
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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.209.217
Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - 11:31 pm:   

Oh, what the hell. Two golden oldies of mine:

http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/creeping.html

http://www.shadow-writer.co.uk/wait1.html
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010 - 12:46 am:   

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?
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010 - 12:49 am:   

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 ...
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Rosswarren (Rosswarren)
Username: Rosswarren

Registered: 11-2009
Posted From: 86.171.175.49
Posted on Saturday, September 04, 2010 - 09:22 pm:   

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.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 01:56 pm:   

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.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 01:56 pm:   

http://www.houseofhorror.org.uk/#/book-shop/4535143845
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 02:18 pm:   

Nice one, mate. Congrats
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Mbfg (Mbfg)
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Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 82.6.94.181
Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 10:15 pm:   

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
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.253.77
Posted on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 09:17 pm:   

"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/
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 04:04 pm:   

I'm all depressed now.

Very good story Mr Zed.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.166.117.210
Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 04:38 pm:   

Thanks, mate - much appreciated. I was quite depressed when I wrote it, late one Christmas Eve.

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