The last chapter took me by surprise – 100 words

That shouldn’t have happened. After all, I like to pretend that I’m a writer. Sometimes.

But I didn’t anticipate this plot twist.

I’d stopped to help a stranded motorist. Dark night. Middle of nowhere. You would have done the same. Especially when the motorist was a little old lady in a walking frame.

Her eyes lit up when I pulled in behind her. I didn’t suspect the walking frame might be a stage prop, window dressing in her little pantomime. When she stepped away from it and pulled a gun from her apron, I saw what was really going on.

Extract from Anthology of Snippets, 20 short shorts that were a lot of fun to write. I hope they’re as much fun to read.

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Catch me selling paperback copies of Burning Roses and Dancing in Valhalla at Rusty Hook’s Strange Sunday alternative market this coming weekend. Midget Submarine will be playing, fresh from their guest appearances with Jasper Dan in Dancing in Valhalla and at the engagement party of the millennium.

To carry on celebrating my engagement to the most delicious goddess in the world, Dancing in Valhalla is free on Amazon today and tomorrow. Go grab yourself one before they’re all gone.

Till next time.

Cheers.

Sympathy for the devil

“It always comes as a surprise to me, too. I never know how I’ll look, especially when I move around. I sometimes take on the appearance of the most recently-dead rock star. Part of the enchantment.” He winked at me. “I’ve been Nikki Sixx 2 or 3 times, but it never lasts long. I was Keith Richards once, that was interesting.”

Damien leaned forward, stabbing an accusatory finger. “Keith isn’t dead.”

The Beast shrugged. “No, not any more. He was lucky. He passed while they were in New Orleans. He knows people down there. They managed to bring him back. But I think the mambo might have rushed the ceremony a little bit. You can see the spell is already starting to slip. I predict that in a few years, he’ll start to look like one of the walking dead.”

Extract from Burning Roses, a decadent tale of sex, drugs, rock n roll & magick. Available on Amazon. Also available in paperback.

And on Amazon.co.uk.

Till next time.

Cheers.

In the park – 100 words

The security guard asked me what I was doing in the park at 2am. I told him I was burying a body.

He didn’t seem happy with that.

He was so unhappy that he reached for his gun and his walkie-talkie at the same time. That was his undoing. He never saw the shovel coming.

Now one more body cluttered the landscaped lawn.

I hoped I had enough lime to cover both of them. I’d found the instructions online. Same place as the instructions on how to make your own zombie.

Those hadn’t worked.

But the night was still young.

Extract from Anthology of Snippets, 20 short shorts that were a lot of fun to write. I hope they’re as much fun to read.

Available dirt-cheap on Amazon. And on Amazon.co.uk. Free on Kindle Unlimited.

Till next time.

Cheers.

Rock n roll

He took a moment to compose his thoughts. “See, rock n roll was a new thing at the time. Something different. Something that hadn’t been around before. It wasn’t like blues, or jazz, or country. It came from all of those, but it was so much more. Music and religion have been inextricably linked ever since Alan Freed called it rock n roll. Which rhymes with soul. As soon as singers started linking those two concepts, you had the devil’s music. It gets inside your head. Inspires you. Gives your life a soundtrack that nobody can switch off.”

He seemed to be rambling, bouncing all over the place. But I had nowhere else to go. I let him tell it his way.

“So when they tried their ancient ritual, and did everything right, it just didn’t take. Not properly. Not the way they’d expected. See, they needed a blank slate. They’d wiped my mind, wiped my emotions, wiped my identity. But they couldn’t take away the music. Because that was locked away in my soul.”

Extract from Burning Roses, a decadent tale of sex, drugs, rock n roll & magick. Available on Amazon. Also available in paperback.

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Till next time. Cheers.

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Gorge – 100 words

Trapped in a mountain gorge. So much for mother’s cheap rope.

Barry could starve. He’d seen those movies.

He checked his supplies. Gas stove. Matches. But no food. The fall had ripped a hole in that side of the bag.

He also had an axe.

Could he do it? Eat his own flesh to survive?

He had to be brave. Grit his teeth. One swing, and he wouldn’t starve. The stove would cauterize the wound. Use the rope for a tourniquet.

Light the stove. Heat the plate.

Ready. Let’s do it.

Mother’s eyes widened.

But the gag muffled her screams.

Extract from Anthology of Snippets, 20 short shorts that were a lot of fun to write. I hope they’re as much fun to read.

Available dirt-cheap on Amazon. And on Amazon.co.uk. Free on Kindle Unlimited.

Till next time.

Cheers.