I love the holiday season and all its trappings, so I was happy to receive the invitation to participate from Icess Fernandez of Writing to Insanity.
As soon as she contacted me, I knew I wanted to offer up a story as a holiday gift.
It's a little grim, though not horror. It's also slightly longer than flash I sometimes post here, so I thought I'd provide it in a format ready for easy digital reading.
Jump to the story on ScribID now.
Or read on to get an idea of what it's about and how it came to be, then jump over to the tale via the button below.
The Back Story
What if it fell into the wrong hands and was read out of context? How would it be interpreted in this paranoid age?
The tale that developed is representative of a kind of dark-humored short fiction I'm writing and beginning to submit in these days of my post-MFA writing life. It has reverberations of my early horror writing while going in a slightly new direction.
It's where the muse is pushing me at the moment, and perhaps there'll be a collection of these twisted tales including the one that's in, shameless plug, Soul's Road. A few of the pieces in the collection of my early stories, Scars and Candy, hint at the style, though they're more visceral.
Click below to read "Credible Threat: A Christmas Story," and see if you like it.
And be sure to continue the blog tour tomorrow with a visit to Toni Margarita Plummer, author of The Bolero of Andi Rowe. See all the stops on the tour here.
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4 comments:
Very fine. I enjoyed seeing some names I recognized in this one. Wayne, Karl.
Yeah, the "commonplace book" is a direct line from Karl and Wayne.
Very good story! I loved the phrase
“self‐medicating with gourmet beer” And it is really easier and more enjoyable to read in the e book form. Hugs from Taos...
Thanks dovalpage, that's a real random thought from my notebook.
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