For anyone interested in short stories I’ve written, here’s some information. (note–a repeat for most of the blog-O-sphere, but I have a date on a blog tour in August, so I am cleaning house, getting out the china…buying flowers. Now, provided there’s no lipstick on my teeth–I am good to go!)
Available on Amazon
Thank the Good God She Found Jesus
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27 pages, download at Amazon for $2.99
Bad girl goes good–and then bad again–exchanging Hail Marys for Happy Hours, and piety for pilsner in a month of equalizing Sundays.
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24 pages, download at Amazon for $2.99
Set against the backdrop of a strip club on Halloween, this urban fantasy pokes good-natured fun at the trends of today’s society, while skirting the more serious issues of outsourced & obsolete American workers.
Available on Amazon and Smashwords
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10 pages, download at Smashwords for FREE!!
A short fiction looks at the lighter side of religion and X’s and O’s. Basically a tic-tac-toe of chemistry, agendas & revival…
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35 pages– download from Amazon for 99¢
Jump down the rabbit hole–fall through a GUI–become the avatar you seem to be & join Link on a trip to Cyberland. Plenty of digitally generated shenanigans & reasons to upgrade, this Window between worlds has Gates stamped all over it…
Click HERE to download those bottom 2 short stories in any format from Smashwords…
Some work of mine published by other folkerie:
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Postscripts to Darkness, volume #3
(direct purchase through publisher)
Short fiction: “What Happens in Vegas” introduces a
few, key players in urban fantasy: SPIRITED REMIX.
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Dark Light 3 at Amazon
“Tossed & Found” is a horrifically, twisted short…
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features : Silent Night
“Heavy on the Advent,
and light on the good will toward men…”
July 18, 2013 





I didn’t realise you had written so many. I have more to buy 🙂
oh Alastair. You have done so much on my behalf…please take your time, and while i thank you for the thought–I don’t want to be “greedy”…:)
You are a real champion. 🙂 In the first sense of that word. Why, if it were medieval times, I prolly toss you my “favor”–and you could go joust..hehe…platonically joust…:) Then, when you were felled by King Henry the 8th–and you’d have to be, what with the politics–well, it would get messy, but then….!!!
to be continued…:)
LOL … carried bleeding and broken off the field. Mind you, I live just under one of Henry’s houses. 🙂
ah, but no matter! It’s straight to the Tower with you! Then after the rack, out to the green! There will be a HUGE crowd of course, because it will be on a Sunday I think…
Haha that will make me a little taller
Heads up…it ends badly…;)
It usually does when I am concerned lol
Only momentarily! Remember Henry!! 😉
I love your writing style and just went to buy 3 of your eBooks, but if I read the info correctly, they are currently only for Kindle readers. Is that right? I don’t have a Kindle. I have an iPad and am mostly computer illiterate. Is there an easy techno-work-around that would allow me to buy and read your e-books on my PC or iPad?
I’m going to have the same situation for my children’s books in that they are illustration intensive and as such, publishing pro’s say the only eBook platform they’ll work well on at the moment is the Kindle. Hopefully that will change soon.
Russ
Oh Russ! Awesome that you pointed this out. 2 are available at Smashwords–in like, oodles of formats. Here is the link for that:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/CharronsChatter
The best thing about buying from there is that one of them is free. 🙂
The reason the other 2 are only available on Kindle: when I made my foray into self-publishing, I stupidly signed up for KDP program. KDP inclusion means your work is exclusive to Amazon–the supposed upside being additional inclusion in their Kindle lending Library–so increased readership potential through Amazon–but that struck me as more hype than helpful. I subsequently pubbed 2 through Smashwords that, as mentioned, offers a lot more formats published–and now am pretty much done pubbing shorts of any kind myself.
I have 2 shorts available in anthology publications by other presses–and that is prolly the way I will go in the future for all future short publications. I am still a little old school in that thought, I suppose–want someone else to be the publisher, me the writer…but intend to approach more acclaimed journals–think Glimmertrain, Ploughshares, Tin House, Paris Review, etc…journals not apt to go out of business before they fulfill publishing contracts, as well as touting credentialed, pedigreed staff to judge your work. Not these fly-by-night start up presses, thank you very much. Although I have to say, I have to stop getting in my own way. I would have had several things pubbed this past year–not even including REMIX, the big ‘un–had it not been for simple mistakes I made when copy editing & creative differences.
I live, I learn. Oy vey.