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Those longer titles kind of suggest a first-person narration (which, oddly, several JP novels START as, then get re-written after five to ten chapters as 3p narratives - only one I Know this happened with was "My Vampire System" but I'm pretty sure there are others). If you feel "The Maverick...

They probably CAN'T read English and assume anything written in that language must be porn...

Ugh - looks like a bad idea sugarcoated to "protect kids" - doesn't seem to define what kind of "adult material" is being regulated (just sex? Violence? What the current government considers racism? anything the current government disagrees with? Or just anything Ofcom has issues with, even if...

Doesn't work without the set-up so technically not a one-liner but two characters meet for the first time. One knows the other by reputation and calls him by his name. "I'm afraid you have me at a disadvantage." "Honey, there are maybe a handful of people in the world who can't say that."

"You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" from Nightmares and Dreamscapes.

That's kind of cold. Honest, but cold. Sadly he died about a year before we met, but my wife's dad was a lot like that. The only fiction he ever got into at all were Westerns. Occasionally he would read science fiction, but only for ideas to try and make real (after helping start the army...

Maybe, but no promises - two part time jobs, a puppy and writing take up most of my time.

Mom actually pushed my story on PocketFM (went from 7 to 104 listeners within 48 hours of her posting about it).

For me it's more like: "What? Stories write themselves!" :biggrin_s:

Read an earlier draft of the first two chapters. Showed serious potential but I just don't have time to read much right now. at least with a critical eye.

The only one I've had this urge with (other than the two I'm kind of being forced to do it with) was Strange Awakening because that story actually has honest-to-goodness fans and I don't want to hold back ... but also don't want to put everything out there.

I just got my one year marker achievement notice today. Thought it had been longer than that!

I keep wanting to write horror - it was about 1/3 of what I wrote and read from 1983 through the early 2000s - but lost the one story I was working on due to a hard drive crash and keep moving away from the really dark stuff ever since. It never goes completely away, but it always refuses to...

I suspect they mean she has a calming or relaxing voice and the translator was a bit too literal (or just careless).

Nah - my two active stories are the ones also on PocketFM (Between Worlds here, Between Earth and Pyrroth there - kind of a high fantasy/urban fantasy mix/generational quest story and Digital Cowboy here Digital Cowboy Dane at PocketFM - Isekai/Western/Conspiracy sci-fi/anything goes thing)...

That might be the fourth one my wife uses (Libby, PocketFM, a Patreon-based one that was doing "better versions" of stuff on PocketFM and one she doesn't remember the name of). I don't remember The Man in the Black Suit offhand. The imagery in it led me to make a sequel to it as a Chill...

There were a few but probably "The Bogeyman" from Night Shift. Though there are a few others I really liked (two of the three Salem's Lot tie-ins were good, and "I Am the Gateway" and "Gray Matter" both just resonated with me). Though, ironically, there was an independent studio that took...

One of Stephen King's short story collections had a story like that; all the great dead artists - Hendrix, Joplin, Elvis, Buddy Holly, etc. - were in a small town for a concert when the MC and his family get lost and wind up there as well. IIRC, either the MC or his wife does get lost to the...

You want mangled lore... the only constant on my world is the number of suns (two - those who worship, or at least respect, the Sun Goddess Selaria claim they are her eyes; those who disrespect her insist they are a lower part of her anatomy...). Originally it had two moons as well, but when I...