Month: November 2011

Death and the Maiden

In which writing pays for reading… Another sale! Hard on the heels of Prisoner of War, which sold two days earlier, I got the wonderful, happy-dance-worthy news that Friendly Fire would be bought by the Machine of Death editors. The maiden, in this case, is Linda, and the death is predicted by the eponymous Machine of […]

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Heinlein Rules

Sale! A hugely disloyal member of the marvellous online writers group Codex, when I was still fairly active there I participated in the 2005 Halloween contest. The contest challenge that year was to write a Halloween story based on a ‘seed’, something to prod the muse, provided by another participant. Seeds could be anything from […]

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