fantasy
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Book Review: I Was A Teenage Ghost Hunter By Brian K.Henry – 3.75/5
“This isn’t usually a book I’d pick up but I’m glad I did. It’s a well put together story and although it’s fairly short, the characters are vivid and bring a lot to the story. There’s Devin who’s a bit of a mystery, Romona who’s everyone’s boss nightmare, Clive and Rex who made me laugh… Continue reading
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The Punk Pumpkin: A Halloween Tale
The Punk Pumpkin was the angriest pumpkin in the entire patch. He was constantly making efforts to cause mayhem and disruption, ruining the peaceful and otherwise sedate lives of the general run of pumpkins in the patch. Continued: https://bit.ly/2EeQdne Continue reading
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Tales of the Coffee God
And it came to pass that the Coffee God came to a strange foreign land and this land was known to those who dwelt there as the Hazelnut Valley. And in this land the people did walk and sing beneath strange trees, called the tree of the hazelnut. And the nut of this tree they… Continue reading
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EARTH TACO – A Play
A dimly lit Taco Bell. LEN Do you have any tacos for vegans? CLERK We don’t serve no space creatures. LEN I’m from this planet. CLERK Then don’t feed them alien overlords! CURTAIN Continue reading
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Outer Space Screenwriter Poem
“We should have a flashback,” said Jeff spreading his hands, “of the time he stowed away, scared, riding in a test capsule with no one, trapped in a long orbit he never made.” At which Leslie puffed on her cigarette. “Don’t make me laugh, you hack. That’s the oldest cliché in the book. The dark… Continue reading
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The Invisible Mummy Goes to Lunch
The Invisible Mummy dragged his bandaged feet across miles of bleak desert before finally sighting a place to assuage his raging hunger: a vulnerable, isolated Del Taco. The Invisible Mummy grunted in dry, thirst-roughened satisfaction. At the lonesome taco outlet he would satisfy both his cravings for food and creating mayhem at poorly guarded places… Continue reading
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The Invisible Mummy
The Invisible Mummy was having another bad day. He’d been causing disturbances at the used car dealership, making mild bits of mayhem by disconnecting computers from wall sockets, smearing windows with bandage grease and pushing Mini Coopers out of their parking spaces. But the inattentive car dealers were too bored, distracted or hungover to… Continue reading
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The Clowns of the Moon
Langston grimly watched the sad-looking clowns go through their routines. The dire moon, with its grey valleys and thin ponds of aquamarine goo, had enough difficulties, the inhabitants eking out an existence from mined stones and subsisting on common dehydrated fruits and flat slabs of compressed meat simulations, without being reminded of the drearier side… Continue reading
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I Was a Teenage Ghost Hunter
Opening of my novel I Was a Teenage Ghost Hunter: Devin stared through the large plate glass window of the Escamonde Hotel at the dark branches of the walnut tree. In between two of the large, lower branches there was a wispy, white piece of fabric. Or at least, there had been one a second… Continue reading
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Evil International Airport
Gorman Fowley approached the check-in counter with a wry, minor smile. Too much time had gone by since he’d flown out of Evil International Airport. The over-rouged, middle-aged brunette at the counter narrowed her eyes, accented with mint green eye shadow. She gave a quirk of recognition with her mouth. “Fowley. Haven’t flown you out in a while.” Her voice… Continue reading