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New Short Story Released!
« on: April 27, 2007, 04:56:47 AM »
I just uploaded Ice, the sequel to Ulcer.  It's available on my store, www.finalredoubt.com/store.  If you don't like using paypal, it's on RPGNow as well, but it's priced below the minimum checkout price.
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Re: New Short Story Released!
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2007, 07:59:53 AM »
I just read it and wanted to say that I really liked it.
I've even come to terms with the talking dog which I found a bit strange in the first story.

Will there be a third story?
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Re: New Short Story Released!
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2007, 08:11:58 AM »
Thanks!  I saw the sale and was hoping you'd like it.  I've written a third and a fourth.  The third has been turned in with GerikGnome, but he's been sick, so I think he deprioritized it, as Product 4 files are hitting him now.  The fourth has been through Writer's Group, but I haven't come back to it for a rewrite.  I have a LOOSE outline that covers 6 or 7 stories, I think.

The talking dog.  I think that you could produce some interesting theories about my subconscious from that dog.
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Re: New Short Story Released!
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2007, 08:23:19 AM »
Well at the end of the first story I feared the dog would somehow destroy the athmosphere of the following sotry. But now I think it is a good way of lightening the mood in the rather dark setting.

And I try hard not to speculate about your  subconscious ;)
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Re: New Short Story Released!
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2007, 08:46:06 AM »
Bit of trivia.  My college creative writing professor, Larry Harper, used to quote Hemingway.  Hemingway said something like, "no matter how well you write, you'll never come up with a better way to say 'I looked at the dog, and the dog looked at me'."  Larry wrote a a briiliant piece based on that line, one of my top ten favorite pieces ever.  Because of him, in every piece of fiction I try to put in some version of "I looked at the dog, and the dog looked at me."  I think my favorite was in the SM novel, which was something like, "He looked at the Tulgar.  The Tulgar stared back."
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Re: New Short Story Released!
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2008, 09:00:53 AM »
I finally managed to buy and read the third story. So far it's my favourite of the short stories.
Oh and the line about the dog really stood out when I first read it ;)
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