tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29399350252780359322024-02-20T01:53:17.632-08:00Burnt Offerings BooksA publishing imprint offering nightmares to discriminating readers.Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2939935025278035932.post-74767155973460580922015-09-01T06:53:00.001-07:002015-09-01T07:01:12.989-07:00Cancellation of Blood Red Wet Dreams.Greetings and salutations!<br />
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A year ago I closed the call for an anthology I was going to call <a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/2014/07/open-call-for-submissions-blood-red-wet.html" target="_blank">Blood Red Wet Dreams</a>.<br />
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I received something like 70 or 80 submissions for consideration.<br />
At first the process was like the preceding anthologies that I put together.<br />
Come up with the idea.<br />
Post the call.<br />
Monitor the incoming submissions downloading the documents and adding them to a master spreadsheet with the author names, story titles, word count and e-mails.<br />
When the submission window closed, start reading the stories.<br />
I tend to pick around the edges of the folder containing the submissions.<br />
Sometimes I open the folder and start reading alphabetically by title.<br />
Sometimes reverse alphabetic to avoid granting unfair preference to alphabetic order.<br />
Sometimes I start reading smallest files to largest.<br />
Sometimes largest to smallest.<br />
Sometimes I just pick a story with an interesting title in case it lives up to the title.<br />
As I read through the stories, I decide which folder they should be put in.<br />
I copy over the folder system that I developed while working on my first anthology.<br />
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While I was reading the submissions, a disconcerting amount of them required editing right out of the gate for spelling and grammar.<br />
If an author doesn't have a handle on their "its/it's your/you're they're/there/their" then most of the time the stories aren't superlative.<br />
If a reader/editor has to stop and determine if the author has used the proper form in minor grammatical matters it makes it that much more difficult to evaluate a story based on the plot, style, and content of the story.<br />
If that's the case, I'll usually make editorial notes on the first two or three pages of errors and give up on the story, send it back with my editorial comments, and tell the author to clean up the grammar and resubmit the story if they want it to be considered.<br />
As an editor of an anthology, I prefer to help good stories get better and catch minor spelling/usage errors.<br />
I can sympathize with a "petal/pedal" error.<br />
One is part of a flower. One is part of a car or bicycle.<br />
But the "its/it's your/you're they're/there/their" thing is part of the basic tool set of writing.<br />
If I managed to get through a story without giving up on it halfway through, I either leave it in the Submissions folder or move it onto the READ - MAYBE folder.<br />
Usually this process took me around a month until I had made my selections and notified the authors, giving them a last chance to give their story a final polish before I put together the Table Of Contents and started to put together the book interior.<br />
After a month working on Blood Red Wet Dreams, I had put half of the submissions into the DECLINED folder.<br />
Each month after that, I'd re-read the stories left in the Submissions folder and try to see if I could put together some sort of theme with the stories that remained.<br />
I was looking for around fifteen solid stories that worked well together and supported the theme.<br />
The theme was "Blood Red Wet Dreams" as in any combination of those words could be used to describe the stories and the anthology. Ideally all of them.<br />
I was looking for stories like Marina De Van's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337961/" target="_blank"><i>In My Skin</i></a>, or <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204700/" target="_blank"><i>Trouble Every Day</i></a>, or <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/" target="_blank"><i>Let The Right One In</i></a>.</div>
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Or something like one of Dexter's blood-soaked fever dreams.<br />
There were several good stories, but only two or three managed to cover all of the bases.<br />
Some were sexy/smutty/bloody but had weak writing or plot.<br />
Some had a strong story, but weren't bloody.<br />
Some used the color red as a key and had a dream in them, but weren't bloody.<br />
Some totally disregarded the parameters of the call and didn't have blood, the color red, water, or dreams in them.<br />
Stories from the folder of finished but as of yet unpublished stories on their computer submitted presumably hoping that the quality of the story would overcome the theme of the anthology.<br />
I thought about contacting regular contributors of stories whose work I haven't included in an anthology yet to ask them if they could send me something that would better complement the theme of the anthology.<br />
But with only three stories in the READ - MAYBE folder after a year of working on this anthology I've decided to call it.<br />
I always said that if I couldn't find enough decent stories to put together an anthology, I wouldn't put out the anthology.<br />
This is the first time this has happened.<br />
I don't want to re-post the call because I think I'd mostly get more of the same and just make more work for myself without publishing an anthology at the end.<br />
I could always just send the twenty remaining stories acceptance e-mails and put it together from shortest to longest and publish it<br />
It would make a few authors happy to receive objective positive reinforcement and add another publishing credit to their resume.<br />
But I'm concerned about the reputation of the imprint.<br />
Whatever marginal reputation I may have earned with the previous books I've published.<br />
I stand behind the quality of the previous books I've published or I wouldn't have published them in the first place.<br />
I look forward to publishing books of the same quality in the future.<br />
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Thank you to all of the authors that submitted their stories for consideration.<br />
Sorry that this one didn't end up coming together and sorry for the long wait.<br />
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If another publisher is interested in taking over the project, feel free to contact me and I'll send over all of the materials and hopefully you can put something together and find a theme where I was unable.<br />
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Scott Lefebvre<br />
Burnt Offerings Books<br />
http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/<br />
burntofferingsbooks@gmail.com</div>
Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2939935025278035932.post-9951122438086898622014-07-31T09:11:00.002-07:002014-08-01T08:57:26.878-07:00Burnt Offerings Books is proud to announce the release of Wage Slave by Sean Douglas.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Time Out Of Mind by Kit Power<br />
Collectibles by Jay Wilburn<br />
All Is Dog by Adrean Messmer<br />
A Stitch In Time by Ben Pienaar<br />
Foam Ride by Patrick Freivald <br />
The Colour of Roses by Tim Jeffreys <br />
Version Control by Scott Lefebvre<br />
Second Chance by Michael Kanuckel <br />
Time Traveler’s Symphony by Marta Salek<br />
Drop-ins by Morgan Crooks <br />
What Would You Do? by Chris Philbrook<br />
The Portal Project by Angelo Michaels<br />
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Since the call for the last anthology was so specific, for the next one I
wanted to run with an idea that I’ve been carrying around for a while.<br />
<b>BLOOD RED WET DREAMS</b><br />
It’s not so much a concrete theme as it is an evocative phrase.<br />
A trigger to get your creative juices flowing.<br />
The only condition is that the stories must contain at least one of the themes suggested
by the title of the anthology.<br />
<b>BLOOD: </b>The blood is the life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feel free
to interpret this in any way you choose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From paper-cuts to torrents of arterial spray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re not squeamish about gore, and will be
particularly unsqueamish about it when considering stories for this anthology,
as the mock-up cover will hopefully convey.<br />
<b>RED:</b> The color red.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Potentially the most
evocative color in the visible spectrum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In thematic perception tests and interpretation of art, red is
interpreted both as suggestive of love and anger, as in “seeing red”.<br />
<b>WET: </b>I shouldn’t have to describe what wet means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A creeping water stain on the ceiling of an
old house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A body of water that seems
benevolent until it isn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are
many ways that an author can incorporate the theme of moisture into their work.<br />
<b>DREAMS:</b> Dreams for some, nightmare for others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The mysterious place that the mind is transported to when we close our
eyes and give ourselves over to the temporary death of sleep.<br />
Since the call for this one is so wide, we want all new stories.<br />
Not that we won’t consider reprints of exceptional quality, but we feel that
with the parameters for this call being as open as they are that we would like
to see some work that is custom written for the anthology.<br />
I know that the knee-jerk reaction will probably be to write a story about a
serial killer.<br />
Don’t.<br />
The genre has been over-used, and not very well.<br />
The same thing goes for zombie stories.<br />
If you’re going to use over-used tropes such as serial killers, zombies,
vampires, witches, werewolves, westerns or noir, we’re going to expect you to
do something new and spectacular.<br />
To paraphrase Tom Atkins, “Thrill us.”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b>A good story trumps genre classification.<br />
We are going to be very discriminative in our selection process.<br />
We are looking for literature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not just
stories.<br />
If you’re going to explore a traditional genre, we expect you to do something
new with it.<br />
If you send us another textbook genre story, you will receive a polite letter
of refusal and suggestions for other markets that may be better suited for your
work.<br />
What we’re looking for is writing that is evocative and actually effects
readers emotionally.<br />
If you’re going to go for scary, we want terrifying writing that will make us
leave the lights on after we’re done reading.<br />
If you’re going to go for depressing, we’re looking for stories so depressing
they will make our hard luck stories read like love songs and have us calling
the suicide hotline.<br />
If you think you’ve got something that fits the preceding description, feel
free to review our submission guidelines below.<br />
We’re looking for authors with a unique voice all their own.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:</b><br />
Between 1,000-7,500 words.<br />Submission Deadline Date: Monday, September 1st<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Please title submissions: "Story
Name by Author Name - Word Count" replacing "Story Name" with
the name of the story and "Author Name" with your name.</b><br />
One submission per author unless you have discussed the theme for multiple
submissions with the editor.<br />
Publish date: Sometime in September TBA.<br />
Page Count Goal for completed anthology: Between 100 - 200 pages.</span></div>
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do we offer?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Burnt Offerings Books offers to publish and promote your work.<br />
We will handle the cost of editing, formatting, designing a cover, and
publishing your work.<br />
In exchange, we will retain exclusive rights to print the work for six months.<br />
After that, we will retain the right to keep the Burnt Offerings Books edition
available, but you may also do with it as you please.<br />
We continue to retain the rights to keep our edition available.<br />
You will also be required to use a different cover for republishing purposes to
avoid confusion between the two editions.<br />
In exchange for these concessions, you will receive an equal percentage royalty
split of 50% of sales p.o.d. and e-book.<br />
Profit-sharing will be distributed at the end of each month.<br />
All submissions will be accepted only on condition of agreement to the
preceding conditions.<br />
If you are interested, submission inquiries may e-mail:<br />
burntofferingsbooks@gmail.com<br />
Or contact us through our Facebook page:<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246</a><br />
To stay up to date on what we will be publishing join the Facebook group:<br />
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Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2939935025278035932.post-13029265289210900592014-05-12T04:55:00.002-07:002014-05-12T05:14:35.151-07:00Burnt Offerings Books WEB MOB.Burnt Offerings Books is pleased to announce a new customer loyalty program.<br />
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As a member of the Burnt Offerings Books Web Mob, you'll be the first to know about our books, and be entitled to receive free PDF versions for review purposes.</div>
As the publisher, we are able to purchase paperback copies of our books at a significant discount, so we can offer paperbacks at half the price of what they're available for through Amazon.<br />
So if you prefer your books in dead tree format, you'll want to join the Web Mob.<br />
We'll also be doing group exclusive contests and promotions not available anywhere else.<br />
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<b>How do I join?</b><br />
If you have a Facebook account, then click on over and join!<br />
It's really that simple.<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/BurntOfferingsBooksWebMob/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/BurntOfferingsBooksWebMob/</a><br />
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<b>What's the catch?</b><br />
If there's a catch, I can't think of one.<br />
It's free.<br />
Not only is it free, but you can make money as a member of the Burnt Offerings Books Web Mob.<br />
<br />
<b>Wait... what?</b><br />
We need reviews.<br />
Giving away review copies just isn't cutting it.<br />
I've given away dozens of PDF copies of our releases for review purposes and only managed to generate one review for every ten PDFs I sent out.<br />
That's not bad, but it could definitely be better.<br />
People don't seem to appreciate things that they get for free.<br />
I know that it takes time to read a book with the intention of reviewing it, but I think a bit of incentive will help.<br />
For every review posted on the Amazon listing for a book published by Burnt Offerings Books by a member of the Burnt Offerings Books Web Mob, Burnt Offerings Books will PayPal the reviewer $1.<br />
I know it's not a lot, but it's what I can afford to pay for now.<br />
I reviewed books for ten years for a variety of different magazines and websites and my only compensation was free books and the dubious notoriety of being a book reviewer.<br />
I received my first book contract by contacting a publisher inquiring for a review copy of a book.<br />
My e-mail was well composed enough that they asked me if I ever thought about writing a book.<br />
They needed authors, and I was excited about the possibility of having my name on the cover of a book.<br />
This was before the whole self-publishing explosion so it was a lot more difficult to get your name on the cover of a book.<br />
We're not looking for five star raves unless that's your actual opinion.<br />
We're looking for your honest opinions.<br />
What we would ask, is that you have something nice to say.<br />
Posting a one star review stating "This book was a waste of time that I will never get back." is a waste of time for everyone.<br />
When I was a book reviewer, if I couldn't think of anything nice to say, I would contact the author or publisher privately and tell them as much.<br />
We ask that you do the same.<br />
If you can say what you liked, and what you didn't like about the book, then we welcome your opinion, be it criticism or compliments.<br />
I have always said that I prefer constructive criticism to complimentary compliments.<br />
We have eleven books available through Burnt Offerings Books, so no one's going to get rich off of reviewing our books, but I don't know of any other publisher that is offering free review copies that will also pay people that actually follow through with posting reviews.<br />
That is our offer, and we'll keep the offer open until we start spending more than we make.<br />
I'm not mailing out dollar bills, so please have a PayPal that I can send your payment to.<br />
Alright, I'll send out dollar bills.<br />
That way you'll have something to frame to commemorate your first paid book review. <br />
To redeem your compensation for posting a review, send a message with the link to your review on the Amazon listing for the title you reviewed to the admin for the Facebook group.<br />
<br />
<b>Where can I browse a list of the titles available from Burnt Offerings Books?</b><br />
It's one click away.<br />
<a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/2014/05/where-can-you-find-burnt-offerings-books.html" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/2014/05/where-can-you-find-burnt-offerings-books.html</a><br />
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Thank you for your time and effort in reading this post and we hope that you will consider joining the Burnt Offerings Books Web Mob.<br />
Taking over the world, one book at a time.<br />
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Lefebvre<br />
Burnt Offerings Books<br />
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Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2939935025278035932.post-66385813435639083192014-05-07T11:27:00.002-07:002015-06-08T17:02:31.444-07:00Where can you find Burnt Offerings Books?<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Greetings!</span></b><br /><br />Thanks for your interest in Burnt Offerings Books.<br />We are a publisher of fiction and non-fiction.<br />Books, novels, anthologies, interview collections and audio books.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">We also provide affordable publishing and design assistance for aspiring authors.<br /><br />You can find Burnt Offerings Books at this blog:<br /><a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />You can find the Burnt Offerings Books Facebook Fan Page here:<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246</a><br />You can find the Burnt Offerings Books Facebook Group here:<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1449189218642723/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/1449189218642723/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">These are the listings for the titles currently available from Burnt Offerings Books in chronological order by print:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>You Are Entitled To My Opinion: Volume 1</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">CreateSpace: <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4547319" target="_blank">https://www.createspace.com/4547319</a><br />Amazon Print-On-Demand Paperback Listing:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Entitled-Opinion-Collection/dp/1494312891/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Entitled-Opinion-Collection/dp/1494312891/</a><br />Amazon Kindle/E-book Listing: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GZ244P4" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GZ244P4</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>You Are Entitled To My Opinion: Volume 2</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">CreateSpace: <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4580363" target="_blank">https://www.createspace.com/4580363</a><br />Amazon Print-On-Demand </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paperback Listing:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Entitled-Opinion-Collection/dp/1494739836/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Entitled-Opinion-Collection/dp/1494739836/</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Amazon Kindle/E-book Listing: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HFX8P48" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HFX8P48</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Scary Stories To Tell In Long Island </b>by Scott Lefebvre</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Dead Letter Depot: A Collection of Stories To Kill Yourself To </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>You Are Entitled To My Opinion: Volume 3</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The End Of The World Is Nigh: Why?</b> by Scott Lefebvre</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The End Of The World Is Nigh: The Middle Of Nowhere</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Condemned</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Till Death Do Us Part: A Collection Of Short Stories</b></span><br />CreateSpace Direct: <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4698016" target="_blank">https://www.createspace.com/4698016</a><br />Amazon.com: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1496129156" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/dp/1496129156</a><br />Kindle Edition: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Till-Death-Do-Part-Collection-ebook/dp/B00IRI8YAA" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Till-Death-Do-Part-Collection-ebook/dp/B00IRI8YAA</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hard Luck: A Collection Of Short Stories</b></span></span><br />
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is a difficult thing for most people to wrap their mind around. The
past has passed, the present is tense, and the future is always
uncertain. The challenge put forth was to write a story within the
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The Time Machine by Scott Lefebvre</div>
Time Out Of Mind by Kit Power<br />
Collectibles by Jay Wilburn<br />
All Is Dog by Adrean Messmer<br />
A Stitch In Time by Ben Pienaar<br />
Foam Ride by Patrick Freivald <br />
The Colour of Roses by Tim Jeffreys <br />
Version Control by Scott Lefebvre<br />
Second Chance by Michael Kanuckel <br />
Time Traveler’s Symphony by Marta Salek<br />
Drop-ins by Morgan Crooks <br />
What Would You Do? by Chris Philbrook<br />
The Portal Project by Angelo Michaels<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Wage Slave </i>by Sean Douglas</b></span></div>
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<b>THRILL</b> to tales of death, destruction, and dishwashing!<br />
<b>KNOW</b> what happens inside the walls of an asylum for the mentally insane!<br />
<b>JOIN</b> an environmental cult pyramid scheme!<br />
<b>READ</b> the depraved tales of prostitutes and drug addicts!<br />
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<b>MURDER! SUICIDE! SEX!<br />EXTORTION! PROSTITUTION! <br />SEX! DRUGS! ROCK & ROLL!<br />ALL THIS AND MORE!</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a collection of short stories about what happens when things go from bad to worse.<br />When no matter how hard you try, and regardless of your good intentions, the worst case scenario is inevitable. Everything doesn't always work out in the end and not every ending is a happy one. Sometimes the only thing that helps you to feel better about your life is hearing about someone who has it even worse. Sometimes Hard Luck is the only kind of luck you've got.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Time Machine</b><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time machine has always existed.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time machine will always exist.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even in the dreams of men who lived
before machines there was the wonder of what could have been.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hidden doorway to time travel
existed behind every advance of our collective efforts at technology until the
inevitable happened as the inevitable always will.<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time machine has always existed.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time machine will always exist.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its discovery was accidental.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were trying to perfect the
theory of teleportation.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In underground research facilities
that never see the light of day or get the attention they deserve but do not
seek, experiments are conducted that would strain your faith in what you think
you know about the world you live in.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever heard of a government program
called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency?<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Probably not.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people haven’t.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t matter.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They do what they do regardless.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, or DARPA as the tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists that
know and love it call it in their “secret” chatrooms, is an actual government
agency.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has a budget, and if you can
manage to get through the two-hundred and eighty-two page itemized budget
report you can see what their annual budget is.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because you can believe everything
you find on the internet.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you know anything about the
world, you know that sometimes false stories are published to make the true
stories look false and only those that are truly “in the know” know the
difference.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes they manage to make it off
of the compounds and onto some conspiracy podcast but it’s tough to believe
what you hear unless you’ve had some time to ease your way into it.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe you watch a show on the
History Channel about ancient aliens and you see a clip of Michael Tsarion or
David Icke and decide to do a little more research the next time you’re bored and
have internet access.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of what they say is interesting
in the way that a lot of conspiracy theories are interesting.<br />
The world is run by shape-shifting blood-drinking alien lizards?<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why not?<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As long as they don’t try to take
off with all of our water and they keep the trains running on time then it’s
fine by me.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if you listen to enough stories,
some of it starts to makes sense and you heed their constant urgings to “Do
your own research!”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And you do. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And you discover other sources like Texe Marrs
and Jordan Maxwell and William Cooper that have done their homework and provide
you with their sources if you have the time and effort to research them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And less of what these people have to say
seems like the ravings of a schizophrenic that went off of their meds and wandered
away from their keeper.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certain phrases and project names recur.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Project names like Rex 84 and
Project Paperclip and Mk Ultra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe you hear about a shadowy
organization that rules the world and you do research, or at least what passes
for research in the age of the internet about The Freemasons and the Skull and
Bones and The Illuminati and the New World Order, the Council On Foreign
Relations and the Bilderberg Group which meets in secret and supposedly selects
the next world leaders and plots the future history of the world before it
happens.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe you even try to tell your
friends about this amazing revelation that you’ve discovered about how the game
is actually rigged and only fools play by the rules and there isn’t anything
behind our currency and hasn’t been for years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That the money that everyone spends most of their life pursuing is just
worthless paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That maybe, just maybe,
we never put a man on the moon.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The further down the rabbit hole you
go, the more superficial the smiles of your friends become.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When someone that doesn’t know you
well mentions something in casual conversation in mixed company, maybe a look
was shot, quick and intended to be subtle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A half a smirk or a roll of the eyes.<br />
When anyone mentions politics, you say that the president was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">selected</i>, not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">elected</i> and that the popular vote and democracy itself is a sham
and do they know anything about the electoral college?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The topic of conversation is awkwardly forcibly
changed to sports, weather, or the latest events that happened to fictional
characters on a popular television show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just like changing the channel.<br />
That’s when you realize that the knowledge that you worked so hard to find is
now yours to bear alone.<br />
Even if we never put a man on the moon, you still have to wake up in the
morning and empty your bladder and brush your teeth unless you want your teeth
to rot away.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never mind the fluoride in the water
supply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The chemtrails criss-crossed
across the twilight sky.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forget about MK ULTRA and Ewen
Cameron.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s not going to make sitting
through your scheduled shift at your job any easier.<br />
Having that information at the ready isn’t going to make small talk over
appetizers on a blind date any easier.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last thing your friends want to
be lectured on is why the days of the week are named after Norse Gods. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That Jesus was a solar deity and comes from a
long line of magic sun gods that people worship, because it’s easier than
having to accept that the universe is really so vast and meaningless that the
existence of any single organism is so brief and inconsequential in comparison
to all of time and space as we know it that it might as well have never
happened and that one day maybe tomorrow and maybe a million years from now the
sun will either implode or explode or burnt out and collapse in on itself and
every record, tape, CD, MP3 and whatever the next incarnation of music
technology is, it won’t matter if you bought another copy of Pink Floyd’s The
Wall that you can upload directly into your brain’s audio center, because
unless you’re listening to it in a colony in another solar system everything
will just be circling around whatever the sun decides to turn into on either a
cold dead iceball or a burned out ball of charcoal but that won’t matter
because by then everyone they know and love will probably be long dead, gone
and forgotten and nothing really matters no matter how hard you try.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not that kind of thing that
everyone’s wired to handle.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So you dial it back.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You realize after you spend a summer
not so secretly not being invited to anyone’s cook-outs that maybe a lot of the
stuff that you’re carrying around in your head isn’t really ready for prime
time.<br />
Your put your pants on one leg at a time like everyone else and try to live for
today.<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time machine has always existed.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time machine will always exist.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first the goal was teleportation.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To move things from one place to
another.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It sounds easy when you phrase it
simply.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First a thing is here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now it is elsewhere.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A thousand years ago if you had said
that humans would fly across the sky in metal machines that weighed as much as
a thousand men they would put you wherever they put the people too mad to
mingle with other people.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who was it that said “Today’s
science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.”?<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even in our time, advances in
technology have brought us wonders that only years ago we thought we wouldn’t
see in our lifetimes and we take it all for granted.<br />
In your pocket you have an affordable device that contains the computational
power that would have required entire buildings of machines to produce and you
use it to send each other pictures of your genitals.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes the use of the machine is
determined by the user.<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first the goal was teleportation.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To move things from one place to
another.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It sounds easy when you phrase it
simply.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First a thing is here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now it is elsewhere.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a thing can be moved from one
place to another then how far can anything be moved to?<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first the things were small.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ball bearings and marbles.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forks and spoons.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the things were made to
disappear, they disappeared, but no one knew to where.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Making things disappear was the easy
part.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Making them reappear where they were
expected to was the difficult part.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scientists sworn to secrecy
under penalty of death or worse were thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this
new technology.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One night after many drinks had been
drunk while idly drawing on a dry-erase board with colored markers someone
figured out that the problem wasn’t only space but time.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="st"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Around, around the sun we go, the moon goes
'round the earth, we do not die of death - </span><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">we
die of vertigo</span></i><span class="st">.”<br />
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="st">If you make a
thing disappear with the intention of making it reappear in the same location
the problem is not that the object will not reappear in the same place, but
that the place is no longer where it was for the object to return to.<br />
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="st">The planet
turns on its axis as it orbits around the sun and the entire solar system is
spinning on a plane with the rest of the known universe.<br />
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="st">The problem
was determined to be one of not only space, but of time.<br />
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="st">Experiments began
with increments of time so brief that they would hardly seem like time at all
to anyone or thing but the instruments keeping track and the items reappeared
as predicted, but a little less predictable as the amount of time an item was
allowed to be disappeared was lengthened.<br />
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="st">Things began
to get weird and adjustments were made.<br />
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="st">Objects were
successfully transported, first across a tabletop, then from one room to
another and the experiments were repeated and repeated again just to be sure
that what was thought to be happening was actually what was happening.<br />
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="st">One day a
scientist decided to try to transport their watch from one room to the next.<br />
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="st">Just for a
laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just to lighten the mood.<br />
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="st">The scientist
even tried to think up a punchline for when the timepiece reappeared in the
next room.<br />
Something along the lines of “Time flies!”.<br />
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="st">When the watch
reappeared the time had to be reset.<br />
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="st">That’s when
things got interesting.<br />
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one had really stopped to
wonder where things went when they went from here to there or where they were
when they disappeared.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Least of all did anyone wonder when
they went.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Supposedly that’s all we ever
learned about the possibility of teleportation and that the project was
abandoned as being too dangerous and unpredictable for any practical use.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many scientists that know
more than they would ever say about the project that few would even believe
were they to risk their life to tell anyone the things they know.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there is something that I know.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can’t expect any good scientist
to open up Pandora’s box only to peek under the lid and then shut it and forget
what they saw inside.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the funding for the project
was discontinued and the scientists were reassigned to other projects, maybe
some of the scientists were not reassigned.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe in exchange for their rights
to be a private citizen some scientists traded their identities to be able to
delve further into this new mystery until they had mastered it.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe some agents sworn to secrecy
were assigned to infiltrate the message boards of sci-fi fandom and put forth
the question of what consequences there would be for humankind if a time
machine were to actually exist.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe the government through covert
funding sources financed the existence of some of the science fiction magazines
and awards were rewarded for the best conjectural fiction of what might happen
if time travel were a reality.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a theory in conspiracy
circles that the technology that the public at large is allowed to be aware of
is ten years behind what science is actually capable of.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if I told you it was twenty
years?<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if I told you that I knew when
and why the pyramids were built and why the library of Alexandria was burned
and that some of the prophecies of Nostradamus were true.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if I told you that I knew who
killed Kennedy and why, and I knew someone that heard Marilyn Monroe’s last
words as they slipped from her beautiful lips?<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you believe me if I told you?<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would anyone?<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t matter anymore.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It never did.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It never will.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won’t tell you who I am.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who I am doesn’t matter anymore.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What matters is what I know.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have seen the time machine.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have heard it humming and I have
seen it make things disappear elsewhere, elsewhen.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes these things reappear
where and when you expect them to and sometimes they don’t.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes smaller things and other
times things not so small.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes small objects.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes other things.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t be sure that I can tell you
for certain who or when but we have a way of knowing our own.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’d never make the trip unless you
thought it through.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To disappear from here and now and
reappear elsewhere, elsewhen is more than most people could ever to hope to
wrap their mind around.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>FOREWORD</b></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
This one was difficult to put together for a variety of reasons.<br />
This was supposed to be the second collection or anthology I put out on my
publishing label.<br />
Collection or anthology.<span> </span>Pick your
poison.<span> </span>Whichever suits your fancy.<br />
My preference changes day to day and depends on how fancy I’m feeling.<br />
It ended up being the third and the second helped to cause the delay in putting
together the third as things that occur in consecutive order which were
intended to happen simultaneously often do.<br />
But life also happened and continues to happen.<br />
It was also difficult because of the quality of the stories that were
submitted.<br />
I had some hard decisions to make and had to disappoint some really nice people
that submitted some really solid stories, but once a theme started to emerge as
the jury process evolved I had to keep the central theme in mind.<br />
Thankfully most of the authors did as well.<br />
So why “Hard Luck”?<br />
Because sometimes hard luck is the only kind of luck you’ve got.<br />
Because you have to play your hand with the cards you’re dealt and the house
always wins.<br />
Because of any number of clichés.<br />
I looked up the first “because” because I thought it was a quote I heard once
and instead I found <span class="st">“The </span><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">only</span></em><span class="st"> thing that overcomes </span><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">hard luck</span></em><span class="st"> is hard work.”<br />
Thanks, Harry Golden, whoever the fuck you were.<br />
I hope you died screaming.<br />
Because sometimes, no matter what you say or do, things aren’t going to work
out the way you planned.<br />
I always say “Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.” But what happens
when things get even worse than your worst case scenario?<br />
My van died last October and I’ve been taking the bus back and forth from work.<br />
It’s April, and on every bus there’s someone sitting at the front of the bus
that runs into someone they know and they always have to tell their friend
everything about their bad luck life.<br />
They either don’t know or don’t care that everyone else on the bus doesn’t want
to know about their bullshit and don’t have earlids they can shut to block out
their banal bullshit.<br />
Sometimes the only way to get through those bus rides is to pretend that the
two people at the front of the bus are avant-garde theater performers
workshopping new material for some absurdist modern Brechtian theater of
cruelty piece.<br />
It makes it easier to endure if you wait for them to stand up and take a bow at
the end of the bus ride and hold out a hat for donations from the other
commuters involuntarily subjected to the drama of their lives.<br />
It’s always legal problems and just got out of prison and in a halfway house
and got kicked out of the halfway house for being high and they’re living on
the streets but they know a guy that owes them some money so when they see that
guy they’d better have their money because the mother of their kids won’t let
them see their kids because they’re behind on their child support payments so
the judge ordered that their wages be garnished and it’s tough to find work
when you’ve got a record and do you have a cigarette to spare and a lighter to
light it with and maybe a couple bucks because if they can just put together
bus fare they can get to where there’s this other guy that also owes them money
and all of this is probably true.<span> </span>At
least some of it is.<br />
Whenever someone asks me for something and I don’t owe them anything I make
them tell me a story.<br />
Even if the story is a lie, it’s usually interesting.<br />
You have to pay the monkey if you want to hear the music.<br />
And when you’re down on your luck, sometimes the only thing that makes you feel
a bit better is hearing about somebody who has it worse off than you do.<br />
One time I was sitting outside a café and nursing a coffee, killing the twelve
hour dead time between twelve hour work shifts because it was easier than
taking two buses each way to spend six hours at my apartment just to get up and
come back for the next twelve hours and a guy wandered over and asked me for
some money.<br />
I said I’d give him some money, but only if he told me what he needed it for.<br />
He told me the usual story about a guy that owed him money and how he just got
out of jail and that he was arrested for walking around with a machete.<br />
“What did you need a machete for?” I asked.<br />
“Because people were out to get me, naw mean?” he answered.<br />
And I did.<br />
I did know what he meant.<span> </span><br />
And I gave him a dollar and thanked him for his time and asked him not to spend
it to get drunk or high.<span> </span>And I was too
lazy to go into the café with the guy and buy him food so I’d know where my
money went.<span> </span><br />
My dollar was his and he could do whatever he wanted with it as far as I was
concerned.<br />
I’ve been homeless before.<br />
Twice.<br />
It’s not as bad as you might think, as long as you have a vehicle to sleep in
and a gym membership.<br />
You can shit, shower, and shave without anyone calling the cops and still show
up to your job if you have one to go to.<br />
There’s a freedom in knowing that wherever you go you are where you need to be.<br />
To not have a series of interconnected boxes with all of your precious possessions
waiting for you to come home and turn on the lights while you’re wasting your
time someplace you’d rather not be, doing something you’d rather not be doing.<br />
The only hard part was killing the time between work shifts.<br />
The long cold nights.<br />
Usually parking in a shopping plaza under one of the tall bright lights and reading
a book until I fell asleep helped.<br />
You’ve only got so much space for books so the ones you decide to keep matter
more than if you have a room to keep them in.<br />
There’s not a lot of sedans that come with bookcases as optional interiors.<br />
I’d mostly read Charles Bukowski and Hubert Selby Jr.<span> </span>Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk. Henry Rollins and T. S. Eliot.<span> </span>The Hagakure.<br />
Books I could read a hundred times and still discover something new I hadn’t noticed
the last time I read them.<br />
I’m probably going to be homeless at the end of this month and probably will be
when you read this and it amuses me to think of myself as running what might be
the world’s first homeless publishing house from wherever I find myself.<br />
This time I don’t have a vehicle, because my last one died, because of the hour
commute I had to make back and forth each day and the road construction that
tore apart the front end which made the cost of fixing the front end more
expensive than what I paid for my van in the first place, but the mechanic I
took it to said the wheels could fly off at any time so taking it onto the
highway again would be suicide, so I junked it.<span>
</span>They said they’d give me three-hundred for it but when they showed up to
take it they offered me two-fifty or to go fuck myself and I took the two-fifty
because rent was due. <span> </span>But then my
license got suspended because of an unpaid parking ticket because my job hasn’t
been able to give me forty hours regularly since I settled for it because the
economy is bad here and has only gotten worse since I moved back, because I
figured it was better to be where I was from, near people that said they missed
me being around, than to stay in the town I moved to, so I could be with a girl
that couldn’t handle her alcohol, but I didn’t know that about her until it was
too late, so I had to let her go even though she was the last good thing to
happen to me, and I never see the people that said they wished that I was here
because they have their own lives to lead and their own problems to deal with.<span> </span>So now I take the bus back and forth from
work and sometimes I make the rent on time and sometimes I don’t and at the end
of this month it won’t matter anymore.<span> </span>I’ve
got a broken tooth that I can’t afford to get pulled that always aches, some
days worse than others, and a trick knuckle from a car crash due to a slick
road on a dark night when I was over-confident and half asleep from working two
jobs that almost put me behind bars.<span>
</span>Thankfully I only totaled my car and made a couple ruts in the lawn in
front of the church and didn’t crash through the side of the church and the
lawyer I paid seven hundred dollars to say “I think my client can speak for
himself.” was enough to convince the prosecutor to drop the charges at what I
think was my arraignment and that and a court fee dropped the charges down from
felony “reckless driving” charge down to a “painted line violation” misdemeanor
and I was allowed to keep my freedom and all it cost me was totaling a car I
still owed three years of car payments on and seven hundred dollars for a lawyer
that met with me twice and only ever uttered a single sentence in my defense, a
two hundred dollar court fee for a fifteen minute arraignment, and waiting seven
years for the misdemeanor to slide off of my driving record.<br />
That was about ten or fifteen years ago and none of it matters.<br />
I still have a trick knuckle that I never bothered to try to get reset that lets
me know when there’s a heavy storm coming from the west before the clouds come
over the horizon.<br />
You have to play the cards you’re dealt, and the house always wins.<br />
And if I can get a few people to buy this book then maybe I can save up my
share of the royalties and get my license reinstated.<span> </span>Save up and buy a vehicle to live in.<span> </span>Pay the sales tax and registration and car
insurance like a decent citizen.<span> </span>Get a
gym membership.<span> </span>Save up for first last
and security and get a decent place to put myself between work shifts.<span> </span>Nothing too fancy, but someplace warm when it’s
cold out and dry when it’s wet out.<span> </span>Start
to pay off my student loans again and fix my credit rating.<span> </span>Meet a nice girl, or these days, considering
my advancing age, a decent woman, that will make me forget about the last one I
had to leave behind.<span> </span>Maybe buy a house
someday.<span> </span>Two car garage and a dog in the
yard.<br />
And maybe the economy will implode and people will kill each other with smiling
eyes and silent knives for trying to cut in line while waiting for a cup of
thin soup and two slices of bread and all the salt and pepper you can stomach
if you don’t mind having to tear open the single serving paper packets.<br />
But, as I always say, “Plan for the worst.<span>
</span>Hope for the best.”<br />
Maybe nobody will notice or care that I wrote this foreword or anything else I
ever have or will write and it will all be a waste of time and I’ll get picked
up on a vagrancy charge and finally get to see if jail is as bad as everyone
seems to think it is.<br />
It should make for some interesting subject matter for my next book.<br />
I used to work with drug addicts and ex-convicts.<br />
I’ve heard it all.<br />
Go ahead.<span> </span>Try me.<br />
Murder.<span> </span>Suicide.<span> </span>Prostitution.<span>
</span>Armed robbery.<br />
Burning bridges and rebuilding them just to burn them again.<br />
My favorite anecdote as related to me by one of my clients was this.<br />
“You know the difference between a drunk and a junkie?<span> </span>An alcoholic will steal your wallet.<span> </span>A junkie will steal your wallet and help you
look for it.”<br />
You have to find a reason to laugh when people you came to know and hoped the
best for hang themselves from shower rods because they lost the battle with the
bottle and couldn’t face themselves in the mirror the morning after.<br />
They usually made more on public assistance than I was making as a counselor
but still they killed themselves.<br />
They said that jail’s not that bad as long as you mind your own business and
keep to yourself.<br />
Supposedly there’s three meals a day which is more than I can afford on the
outside.<br />
The food’s not great, but you always know your next meal will be there.<br />
And there’s probably pen and paper and steady work to help bide the time.<br />
I heard they pay minimum wage and that you can use your wages at the prison commissary
to buy what you need to trade for what they don’t sell in the commissary and
what you don’t spend they save up for you and hand you a check on your way out
the gate.<br />
You’re not allowed to have lighters, but they still find ways to light
cigarettes in prison.<br />
When I get out there’s public assistance that can line me up with a cheap place
to live and a minimum wage job which really isn’t so far away from where I’m at
now.<br />
I’m not there yet, but I can see it if I look over my shoulder and squint.<br />
The rent is always due, and the wolves are always at the door.<br />
And even if they’re not scratching on the outside and nuzzling their muzzles
into the corners, you can hear them howling in the distance.<span> </span>I can hear them howling.<span> </span>Can you?<br />
If it’s true that “The </span><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">only</span></em><span class="st"> thing that overcomes </span><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">hard luck</span></em><span class="st"> is hard work.”, then I hope you appreciate the hard work that it took
to put this together.<br />
Not just my time and effort, which I gave with no regret, but the time and
effort of all of the authors that wrote these stories.<br />
Most of them did so alone, with little appreciation and encouragement from
their family or friends if they have them, and the only thing that they want
from you is to read their stories.<br />
That is also all I ask of you if you’re reading this.<br />
Even if you bought this as a favor for a friend, even if you were given a copy
for free, please read them all.<br />
The time and effort you’d spend doing so will surely be less than the time and
effort it took the authors to write them.<span>
</span>Time they could have spent sleeping in or fucking off or playing video
games or getting drunk or getting high or watching movies and living other
people’s dreams.<br />
Even if it doesn’t mean a lot to you and seems a simple thing, it would
probably mean the world to the authors whose stories that follow.<br />
And maybe if I sell enough copies of this book I can save up and catch the last
bus out of town because there’s a guy on the other end that owes me some money
and he’d better have it on him when I find him.<br />
So, now that you’ve heard my Hard Luck story, let’s hear yours.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>POSSESSIONS: A Collection of Short Stories About the Abject Horror of Ordinary Objects</b> is an anthology assembled and edited by Paul Loh.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Inspired by his social networking with other authors, Paul Loh decided to collaboratively come up with a theme with authors invited to participate in a secret invitation only group.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Of the thirty-three group members, fifteen contributed stories based on the theme of the abject horror of ordinary objects.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">As the editor said, "It has been said that what is wrong with the world is that we use people and love things instead of the other way around. What if things were using people? That question is answered within these pages. Here, we have fifteen authors who have probed their deepest fears to transport you into a world where the enemy has no face. It could be a phone, a book, a calendar or even a pair of shoes. When ordinary objects become something to fear, where can you ever be safe? We have met the enemy and it is our Possessions!"</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />From the Foreword:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">"<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I am amazed by how quickly this all came
together. I've always known that I'm a
writer and that I love to edit and proofread, but I never thought I'd be
putting all those skills together in one project.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One night in December, Clay Cross
and I were talking on Skype. He
mentioned a short story he'd like to write. I told him that if he wrote a story, I'd write one too and we could put them
together in an anthology and get other writers to contribute to it. Thus was born the idea.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When I got a group of writers together, we
discussed a theme and came up with the title, which we all agreed upon. We would write about ordinary
objects somehow becoming something to fear.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">From the beginning, this has been a
collaborative effort. I could never have done this without the help of all the
other writers. This idea of ours
becoming a reality is definitely a dream come true for me and all of us!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I am honored that I know so many talented
writers. Some I met at school, some I
met while doing stand-up comedy at open-mic night and some I know through
Facebook. Now you can get to know them a
little through the pages of this book! At
least their fears.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sometimes that's the most real part of a person."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />For several of the authors, this is their first publishing credit.<br />This is in adherence with the policy of Burnt Offerings Books to help authors that are trying to establish themselves to build their publishing resume to help them leverage their future work for pro-rate sales.<br /><br /><b>In this anthology are the following stories, organized by length from shortest to longest:</b><br />The Phone by Clay Cross<br />The Doorbell by John Reti<br />Bullet by Anthony Calhoun<br />Timer by Abbey Sweeny<br />Good Luck by Scott Lefebvre<br />Victory Assured by C. L. Quigley<br />Smart Phone by Paul Loh<br />Mine by Ian McClellan<br />A Call From Beyond by D. A. DeCuzzi<br />2B or Not 2B by Barb Lien-Cooper<br />Consumption by Ryan Lieske<br />Sussurri della Notte by Jason Holton<br />The Amulet by Amy Frischmann<br />Menology by Shanna M. Zuniga<br />Voices Under The Cabin Floor by Jason Harris</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b>You can find the anthology for purchase through the following links:<br />CreateSpace Direct: <br /><a href="https://www.createspace.com/4738243" target="_blank">https://www.createspace.com/4738243</a><br />Amazon Print-On-Demand:<br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Possessions-Collection-Stories-Ordinary-Objects/dp/149749527X/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Possessions-Collection-Stories-Ordinary-Objects/dp/149749527X/</a><br />Amazon Kindle/E-book Version:</b><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Possessions-Collection-Stories-Ordinary-Objects-ebook/dp/B00JFCD4PM/" target="_blank"><b>http://www.amazon.com/Possessions-Collection-Stories-Ordinary-Objects-ebook/dp/B00JFCD4PM/</b></a></span><br />
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is proud to announce its first themed collection of short stories Till Death Do
Us Part.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Love and hate are often intertwined. In this collection we explore the
consequences of the ties that bind when they come unraveled.<br /> Life and death.
Love and loss. Murder and suicide.<br /> These themes and others are explored in this
collection of stories.<br />
This collection contains nine stories selected from the stories contributed for
consideration.<br />
Thrall by Christinna Viruet<br />
Promises by Marta Salek<br />
LI by Mark McAuliffe<br />
Anniversary by Tim Jeffreys<br />
Cold Shock by Kit Power<br />
Angie's Change by Deb Eskie<br />
Till Death Do Us Part by Sean Douglas<br />
Companionable As Solitude by Lisamarie Lamb<br />
Cadavres de Desir by T. Fox Dunham<br />
You can purchase the collection from the following links:<br />
CreateSpace Direct: <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4698016" target="_blank">https://www.createspace.com/4698016</a><br />
Amazon.com: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1496129156" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/dp/1496129156</a><br />
Kindle Edition: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Till-Death-Do-Part-Collection-ebook/dp/B00IRI8YAA" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Till-Death-Do-Part-Collection-ebook/dp/B00IRI8YAA</a><br />
FREE PDF copies available for review consideration.</span></span>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2939935025278035932.post-38523670740121839112014-02-06T06:00:00.004-08:002014-02-06T06:01:26.778-08:00Review of Dead Letter Depot by Kit Power.<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In this grab bag of tales, shorts, intros, extracts and miscellaneous
paths-less-travelled, that's the core message that keeps coming back, again and
again. Scott can write.</span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
It is, as the full title suggests, horror. Specifically (though not
exclusively) apocalyptic horror. Scott has done some thinking about how the
work might end, and how those they may remain will react to that ending, and
across the pages of this anthology, he walks us through it - the desperation,
the lethargy, the isolation, and yes, of course the fear - though it's telling
that we're often as scared of Scott's protagonists as we are the world they
have inherited.<br />
It starts with 'Whimper' - a really fine stand alone tale, but also one that
sets up so well the themes Scott will wrestle with throughout the book.</span>
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'Where werewolves come from' is my favourite in the collection, and worth the
price of admission on it's own - a series of vignettes, connected by a common
thread that you feel, even if you can't fully articulate it. This is a stunning
meditation on people and the walls of flesh and mind that separate us all from
each other. <br />
The chapter extracts stand up well, but inevitably suffer from being dislocated
from their wider narratives, especially, for me, the chapter from 'The End of
the World Is Nigh. </span>
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'Braindead' manages to be a genuinely disturbing alternate take on the events
of 'Whimper' - A Bachman vision, as opposed to King, if you can dig it - and
the R/T/M intro made a useful pairing, in that it gave fair warning at to where
that book is likely to go, should you be brave enough to attempt it.</span>
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And finally 'Till Death us Do Part' takes the premise of the movie 'Warm
Bodies' and turns it into the gut-wrencher it always should have been.</span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
This is not a perfect collection. The grab-bag nature of it precludes that. But
the best stuff is very very good indeed, and across the piece you catch sight
of real talent sweating blood to realise a vision. Scott has a clear and
distinct narrative voice (albeit with capacity for variation, as the last
couple of entries in this collection show), an unflinching vision, and is fully
prepared to shed harsh light on the darkest recesses of the human condition.</span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
I can't wait to see what he does next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dead Letter Depot: A Collection of Stories To Kill Yourself To </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">CreateSpace: <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4608401" target="_blank">https://www.createspace.com/4608401</a><br />Amazon Print-On-Demand </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paperback Listing:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Letter-Depot-Collection-Yourself/dp/1494934973/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Letter-Depot-Collection-Yourself/dp/1494934973 </a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Amazon Kindle/E-book Listing:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Letter-Depot-Scott-Lefebvre-ebook/dp/B00HRK3Q48/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Letter-Depot-Scott-Lefebvre-ebook/dp/B00HRK3Q48/ </a></span><br />
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<b>OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Burnt Offerings Books is looking for:</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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– 7,500 words.<br />
Novelettes: 7,500 - 20,000 words <br />
Novellas: 20,000 - 50,000 words<br />
Novels: 50,000 words and up.</span></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What kind of content are we
looking for?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">We are looking for traditional horror genres.<br />
Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, Zombies, Ghosts, Demons, Serial Killers.<br />
We are going to be very discriminative in our selection process.<br />
We are looking for literature. Not just
stories.<br />
If you’re going to explore a traditional genre, we expect you to do something
new with it.<br />
If you send us another textbook genre book, you will receive a polite letter of
refusal and suggestions for other markets that may be better suited for your
work.<br />
What we’re looking for is writing that actually frightens.<br />
We don’t want scary, young adult content.<br />
We want terrifying writing that will make us leave the lights on after we’re
done reading.<br />
If you think you’ve got something that fits the preceding description, feel
free to review our submission policy below.<br />
We’re looking to publish a novel a month in 2014.<br />
Shorts will be published in themed anthologies.<br />
We will be publishing a themed anthology each month starting February 2014.<br />
The theme for each month’s anthology will be announced at the beginning of each
month and the anthology will be published at the end of the month.<br />
If you can’t write a short story in a month, you may want to consider
submitting to another publisher.<br />
We’re not looking for the next Stephen King or Clive Barker or Anne Rice.<br />
We’re looking for authors with a unique voice all their own.<br />
No children’s books, no Young Adult, and if you’re going to submit something
zombie-genre it had better be amazing.<br />
Also NO EROTICA! Go peddle your vampire/werewolf porn somewhere else.<br />
We are interested in publishing writing BY adults FOR adults, offering
nightmares to discriminating readers.</span><br />
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</span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
do we offer?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Burnt
Offerings Books offers to publish and promote your work.<br />
We will handle the cost of editing, formatting, designing a cover, and publishing
your work.<br />
In exchange, we will retain exclusive rights to print the work for six months.<br />
After that, we will retain the right to keep the Burnt Offerings Books edition
available, but you may also do with it as you please.<br />
Publish it, don't publish it, sell it to some other publisher. Whatever.<br />
Just as long as we continue to retain the rights to keep our edition available.<br />
You will also be required to use a different cover for republishing purposes to
avoid confusion between the two editions.<br />
In exchange for these concessions, you will receive 50% of all sales p.o.d. and
e-book.<br />
Profit-sharing will be distributed at the end of each month.<br />
This is the best deal I have heard of from any independent publisher.<br />
Good luck finding a better deal that doesn't include an advance.<br />
All submissions will be accepted only on condition of agreement to the
preceding conditions.<br />
Doesn't sound like something you're interested in? Don't submit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>You Are Entitled To My Opinion: Volume 1</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>You Are Entitled To My Opinion: Volume 2</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">CreateSpace: <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4580363" target="_blank">https://www.createspace.com/4580363</a><br />Amazon Print-On-Demand </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paperback Listing:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Entitled-Opinion-Collection/dp/1494739836/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Entitled-Opinion-Collection/dp/1494739836/</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Scary Stories To Tell In Long Island </b>by Scott Lefebvre</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Dead Letter Depot: A Collection of Stories To Kill Yourself To </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>You Are Entitled To My Opinion: Volume 3</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">CreateSpace: <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4621497" target="_blank">https://www.createspace.com/4621497</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Amazon Print-On-Demand Paperback:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Entitled-Opinion-Collection/dp/1495221024" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Entitled-Opinion-Collection/dp/1495221024</a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The End Of The World Is Nigh: Why?</b> by Scott Lefebvre</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The End Of The World Is Nigh: The Middle Of Nowhere</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Condemned</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Amazon Print-On-Demand Paperback: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495477185" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495477185</a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Till Death Do Us Part: A Collection Of Short Stories</b></span><br />CreateSpace Direct: <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4698016" target="_blank">https://www.createspace.com/4698016</a><br />Amazon.com: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1496129156" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/dp/1496129156</a><br />Kindle Edition: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Till-Death-Do-Part-Collection-ebook/dp/B00IRI8YAA" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Till-Death-Do-Part-Collection-ebook/dp/B00IRI8YAA</a></span><br />
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Time
is a difficult thing for most people to wrap their mind around. The
past has passed, the present is tense, and the future is always
uncertain. The challenge put forth was to write a story within the
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The Time Machine by Scott Lefebvre</div>
Time Out Of Mind by Kit Power<br />
Collectibles by Jay Wilburn<br />
All Is Dog by Adrean Messmer<br />
A Stitch In Time by Ben Pienaar<br />
Foam Ride by Patrick Freivald <br />
The Colour of Roses by Tim Jeffreys <br />
Version Control by Scott Lefebvre<br />
Second Chance by Michael Kanuckel <br />
Time Traveler’s Symphony by Marta Salek<br />
Drop-ins by Morgan Crooks <br />
What Would You Do? by Chris Philbrook<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Wage Slave </i>by Sean Douglas.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /><b>Please contact the publisher through here or through Facebook for review copies.</b></span>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2939935025278035932.post-49899469984724480762013-12-20T09:30:00.000-08:002013-12-20T09:30:05.825-08:00You Are Entitled To My Opinion - Volume 2 is now live!<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="userContent">You Are Entitled To My Opinion - Volume 2 is now live!<br /></span><span class="userContent"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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artists.<br />
Using a standard initial survey and then using the answers to the initial
survey to ask follow-up questions, the interviewer conducts a series of
conversational correspondence style interviews worth reading.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The title of the interview series is
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and interviewees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This
is a collection of the best interviews from the blog.<br />
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You can read other interesting interviews at the website for the blog:<br />
<a href="http://youareentitledtomyopinioninterviews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">youareentitledtomyopinioninterviews.blogspot.com</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></div>
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In this collection are interviews with:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Lou Rosconi</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Chris “Ralski” Amesquita</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nicolas Caesar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Amber Michelle Russell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Humanburger Jones</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">J. Spencer Shull</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jared Konopitski</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dave Castr</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Justin Aerni</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">John Hageman Jr.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nate Milliner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Alex McVey</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Kelly Forbes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Roger Scholz</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Chad Savage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Luke Cooper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Monica Munster</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Bill Killen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Rob Sacchetto</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Eric Pigors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Chad Kaplan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Aaron Ulcer</span></div>
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