This is written for Write Anything’s [Fiction] Friday Challenge #198 – Set your story in the 1880s, in a mid west, tumbleweed town. The doors of the bar open, the piano stops playing and all eyes are drawn to the figure in the doorway…… Now keep going. I walk along the street, my ornamental spurs […]
Book Review – Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West was first published in 1985. As Cormac McCarthy’s fifth book, it comes well before his more famous works, No Country for Old Men and The Road (both adapted for the screen in recent years). The book is a fictional account based upon both true events and […]
International Women’s Day
According to the official website, “International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900’s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.” It seems almost fitting to be celebrating it this year, what with the tide of radical change […]
Freebies
I’m taking part in Read an Ebook Week over on Smashwords so until March 12th, you can get my steampunk novella, The First Tale, for free! That’s right – instead of the usual 99c, it now costs nothing. Just add the coupon ‘RE100’ at the checkout. Smashwords offer all kinds of formats, from EPUB to […]
Photo Prompt 23
Twenty-third prompt, ready and waiting. If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! […]
Friday Flash – Dead Man’s Hand III
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