Celebrating Independent Authors
All gave some. Some gave all.
In honor of Veteran’s Day, we will have a special flash fiction challenge honoring veterans everywhere. Here is your chance to acknowledge the men and women who stand in harm’s way so we can wield our pens and write whatever we damn well please.
Bring it. Continue reading “Flash Fiction Challenge: Some Gave All”
BLUFF
by Lenore Skomal
Genre: Literary Fiction/trangressional fiction
Word count: 90,000
“To the medical world, I was a host body, surviving only to bring a new life into the world. And while I wanted to die more than anything in the world, I never wanted this. No, I never wanted to cease to exist. This was the worst death of all.”
Jude Black lives in that in-between, twilight place teetering on death but clinging to life in order to bring her baby into this world. Only she knows the circumstances surrounding her mysterious fall off the bluff that landed her in the hospital being kept alive by medical intervention. Only she knows who the father of her baby is. In this poignantly crafted literary novel, the mystery unfolds and the suspense builds as the consequences of Jude’s decisions threaten to reveal everyone’s deceptions, even her own. Bluff offers a sensitive look at essential questions such as the value of human life, the consciousness of those in a coma and the morality of terminating life support. At the core is the story of a tragically misunderstood woman who finds peace, acceptance, understanding and even love on her deathbed.
This title is available from Amazon. Continue reading “Book Brief: Bluff”
Haunted Water Press wants submissions of fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry for publication in the Winter 2012 issue of From the Depths. The theme is “A Life Less Ordinary.”
They seek “…character driven works focusing on the human experience. Think love and loss, triumph over adversity, defining moments in an otherwise mundane life, desperate measures in desperate times, ordinary people and extraordinary circumstances.”
Deadline is November 30, 2012. For more information, please visit their website.
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On March 10th 2012, 14-year old Paulie Potatoes, along with the rest of the teenagers of earth, inherited superpowers. Seeing this as a threat to his way of life, Mob boss Bobby Biaggio Bigotta, better known as Biggie Boom Boom, knows that he must stop Paulie and his friends by all means necessary.
Unexpectedly, Biggie resists his instincts to fight and instead he extends an invitation for Paulie to join his gang. Paulie must now decide between a life of crime or a life as a superhero. Will Paulie walk down this underworld path, blinded by wealth or will he use his newfound powers to keep the streets safe from the gangland that plagues Niagaratown?
Paulie Potatoes Gangster Crusader, the teen sci-fi/action adventure novel by B.R. Stranges, is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, and Smashwords.
