I’ve had a bounce in my step for awhile now what with getting some of my very short fiction out there in the world. One of those putting-bounce-in-my-step moments was placing a short story called “Turkey Day” with the good folks at Suicide House Publishing for their holiday offering Scary Snippets: Christmas Edition.*
I received two copies of the book the other day and am looking forward to reading it. All of the stories are very short (hence “snippets”), between 100 and 600 words. Naturally, being a Lady of Chaos Undivided I went for excess and made sure I used all 600 words.
Reindeer is tired of being used as a book rest and thinks duck needs to take a turn.**
Monsters and mayhem, by a goodly number of authors, include such things as cannibalism (tasty presented of course), Yule Cat, Revenge of the Christmas trees, and I am pleased to report that mine wasn’t the only story with zombies.
I must confess that my zombies were an oblique feature rather than the main attraction of Turkey Day. One possible theme for my story might be that people are just a little too hard to impress these days and it’s a damned shame. Whatever the case, I’m one of those people (currently anyway) who usually looks for a theme after I’ve finished my work rather than when I’m writing it.
Bird thinks the Thanksgiving Day ones are the scariest for obvious reasons!
In other news, I was the dungeon master for a Dungeons & Dragons game yesterday, which went pretty well. I haven’t DMed in many years and I was a little nervous going in, but everyone said they had fun and are looking forward to once again visiting the Enchanted Forest, so I’m pretty pleased.
Finally, I have a sorry little tale (pun not intended) about my cat catching a mouse. That will be for next time. I hope everyone had a nice holiday.
* Suicide House Publishing has since changed its name to Nocturnal Sirens Publishing.
** My mother made the little clothespin angel, which I thought was cute, and put it in this year’s Christmas box. Thanks, Mom! 🙂
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That’s great Ann. Well done
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Thank you very much. On to the next thing. 🙂
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Congratulations! This is seriously good news!
I’ll see if I can grab a copy and put it on my reading list for the end of the year – keep the festive season spooky!
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Thank you, Jenn. Well, mine is one story of many, though it is one of the longer ones. We were given a canvas of 100 to 600 words so I made it a point to use every bit of mine.
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Sounds like you’re on a well-deserved high, Ann! Well done! 🙂
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Thank you. I have a couple of more offerings to report in due time as well. Should be getting another package in the mail soon.
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Cooool!! Congrats on getting published Ann, and all the best for MMXX
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Thank you, I hope you have a good MMXX too. You know, when I was a little kid I used to like to calculate how long it would take to get old and I thought things like, “My god, it’ll never be 2020, that’s forever!” and if it did come my youthful imagination saw it as George Jettsen time. Not quite there yet, but it still isn’t bad.
You know, 80 is starting to look pretty young…. 🙂
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Too true… Fancy something fun but scary? Work out how many pay cheques you will get between now and retirement… I’m down to 243! 😀
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Hahaha, the good and the bad, the bitter with the sweet. Money is nice, but then again each pay stub is two weeks closer to the grave!
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