The Devil In Me

Michael J. Solender, prolific noir author and satirist invited me to to write as a guest over at the NOT

My new piece The Devil In Me is up on his site now. Feel free to pay it a visit and let me know what you think.

Here's a taster...

The Devil In Me

The last time I saw The Devil he was dancing on stage. 

What I was doing there, I can’t be sure. Sleep had evaded me – I swear I was awake. It was one of those vivid ‘between the veils’ moments where the extraordinary seems real; when you can fly without wings and fall off cliffs without landing. It was a moment when being invited to watch The Devil trip the light fantastic seemed a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

His voice rang out as I entered the darkness of the endless auditorium.

‘Ah, Jimmy. It’s been so long, so long.’

Read the full story...

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Lily's Friday Prediction

Can you come up with flash fiction of 100 words (max)? My weekly challenge is to write a piece that includes three words or terms chosen by bibliomancy (as in - I shut my eyes, lay my hands on the dictionary, let the pages fall open and stick a finger on the page. What ever I land on, goes in the list of three.)

This week's three are below. What can you do? Add your contribution in the Comments box at the end.

• Magnetic
• Reflection
• Hanging Gardens

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The Corporate Cabaret

Over at me more genteel blog, is the story I've submitted to the Six Sentences Network - 6S - of my mate Olivia who walked away from the corporate monster yesterday. Power to you, Liv. F*ck 'em.

Here it is: http://micheleranger.blogspot.com/2010/07/corporate-cabaret.html

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Lily's Friday Prediction

The words that fell beneath my fingers this week evoked something decidedly Southern Old Money - I'll add my contribution later.

What can you come up with from today's three words?

• Confidante
• Old-timer
• Reef

100 words max or evidence it is a prediction come true. Comments below, if you damned well please...

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Bit of Fun... Are you the next big thing?

Some writer mateys were recently told about 'I write like' at http://iwl.me/.

Paste a few paragraphs of your work into the text field and hit the Analyze button.

I posted six different excerpts from different pieces - I got 2 Stephen Kings, 2 James Joyces (I don't think so) and 2 Margaret Atwoods. Interesting.

The list of writers must be fairly short, but it's a giggle.

Do YOU write like a genius?

Dog Day Delivery at TKnC

A new piece - Dog Day Delivery by Lily Childs - is now up over Thrillers Killers 'n' Chillers.

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Lily's Friday Prediction

Fab efforts from David Barber, Michael Solender and Pixie J. King last week. Thanks all.

This week's words to play with - and the last one is a particular favourite - are:

• Green-eyed
• Urinal
• Bloated

So as usual, 100 words max flash fiction, incorporating all the words. Please add them to Comments below. Alternatively if my three words have predicted something - let me know by the end of the week.

Over to you...