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Click here to read Dallas' interview with the Tainted Tea editors.Don't forget about Tainted Tea's flash fiction and bookmark contest. Click here. There are prizes!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Help Write On! win a $5,000 Grant
Write On! is one of seven national finalists for a Glamour Magazine/Sally Hansen $5,000 grant!
Click here to read Dallas' interview with the Tainted Tea editors.
Don't forget about Tainted Tea's flash fiction and bookmark contest. Click here. There are prizes!
Click here to read Dallas' interview with the Tainted Tea editors.Don't forget about Tainted Tea's flash fiction and bookmark contest. Click here. There are prizes!
Afternoon Shorts: "Dead All Along"
Dead All Along || Ceri Frost from Giles Timms on Vimeo.
For more info on this awesome-ass video, click here.Monday, February 1, 2010
Excerpt from "A Gun Without Bullets" by Nick Medina
Todd wrapped his fingers around the gun and lifted it from the trunk. It only came out on days like this one, when Todd thought about ending it all. He put the barrel to his temple and pulled the trigger. The gun clicked. He pulled the trigger again and again. He knew he wouldn’t die because as far as he knew, the gun had never been loaded; he’d never bought any ammunition, but he couldn’t help but wonder if he’d be any happier with a bullet in his brain. If he had bought bullets for the gun he probably would have used them, or at least one of them, long ago.
He couldn’t though. Suicide’s the coward’s way out according to his father. It’s for those who don’t have the courage to face reality. Todd always hated when his father said that. How could he face reality when he didn’t know what reality was?
His reality, as much as he could tell, was much like the gun’s: useless and empty. He was as useful, powerful and respected as a gun without bullets.
Nick Medina is a young author from Chicago, Illinois. He has recently been published by Screams of Terror Magazine, The New Flesh, Black Petals Magazine, Deadman's Tome, Dark and Dreary Magazine and The Monsters Next Door. To read more of his work, or to contact him with questions or comments, visit his Web site.
Read the rest of Nick Medina's story in Tainted Tea's Winter 2010 issue, available for download later this month.
He couldn’t though. Suicide’s the coward’s way out according to his father. It’s for those who don’t have the courage to face reality. Todd always hated when his father said that. How could he face reality when he didn’t know what reality was?
His reality, as much as he could tell, was much like the gun’s: useless and empty. He was as useful, powerful and respected as a gun without bullets.
Nick Medina is a young author from Chicago, Illinois. He has recently been published by Screams of Terror Magazine, The New Flesh, Black Petals Magazine, Deadman's Tome, Dark and Dreary Magazine and The Monsters Next Door. To read more of his work, or to contact him with questions or comments, visit his Web site.
Read the rest of Nick Medina's story in Tainted Tea's Winter 2010 issue, available for download later this month.
"Horns" by Joe Hill
Taken from HarperCollins' Web site:
Joe Hill’s critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning debut chiller, Heart-Shaped Box, heralded the arrival of new royalty onto the dark fantasy scene. With Horns, he polishes his well-deserved crown. A twisted, terrifying new novel of psychological and supernatural suspense, Horns is a devilishly original triumph for the Ray Bradbury Fellowship recipient whose story collection, 20th Century Ghosts, was also honored with a Bram Stoker Award—and whose emotionally powerful and macabre work has been praised by the New York Times as, “wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty…a Valentine from hell.”
Pre-order your copy here.
Winter 2010 Cover
Check the blog later today for an excerpt from Nick Medina's short story, "A Gun Without Bullets."
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