by Tom Leins The barman at the Cock & Whistle is the least jolly-looking motherfucker I’ve ever seen wearing a Santa hat. I pay for my pint and back away, slowly — he is nursing a baseball bat wrapped in tinsel. I don’t know if he is trying to scare off the carol singers, or […]
via All I Want for Christmas Are Your Two Front Teeth — Spelk
Large open plain covered in heavy snow. Mountains on all sides. It is bright and sunny out. A perfect day to explore the world around me. Suddenly there is a loud crack in the distance as if god itself was splitting the earth in two. The sound echoed throughout the valley and I was afraid. […]
The Farmington Writers Circle is starting a new feature in sponsoring a literary open mic night at the Entertainmart
(formerly Hasting’s) Hardback Café. The first performance will be Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. followed by a meeting of the Farmington Writer’s Circle. We hope to have a half-hour performance at 6:30 p.m. preceding each Writers Circle meeting on the second Thursday of each month (February is an exception and we will be meeting on the third Thursday).
On February 16, I will be reading selections from my short story collection, The Scent and Other Stories: The Dark Side of Love, followed by a short open discussion and a questions and answers session. Follow this link to learn more about The Scent…
In the future, we hope to have other members of the Writers Circle read from their works.
However, you do not have to be a member (not at this point, but maybe later) to read from your works. Simply notify me through this website and I will schedule you for a slot. However, members will have the first choice of slots.
All I ask is that, because there are families and children in Entertainmart, that you choose something that does not contain obscenity, explicit erotica, graphic violence, or anything generally considered in bad taste. Please keep your readings to the G or PG level. If you must read a passage containing vulgarities, please bleep them out, whistle, or do something entertaining other than saying them out loud (miming them or acting them out is not allowed either).
Also, please don’t read from someone else’s works. We want to hear your voice, the voice of Farmington. Hemingway and Shakespeare are great, but everyone knows them, even if they haven’t read them.
Be aware, the Writers Circle will not be the only ones attending your reading. The Hardback Café is open to the public and the public will be moving in and out and having their coffee.
For more information, contact me via this website.
The Farmington Writers Circle meets again on Thursday, February 16, in the Entertainmart (formerly Hardback) Café at 7:00 pm. I will be leading the discussion on the second part of what I have learned from publishing on Kindle and using their marketing tools. Other topics, such as developing a literary open mic night, and developing a website for the Writers Circle will also be discussed. Everyone is invited. There is no charge and no membership requirements.
Preceding the meeting, starting at 6:30 pm, I will be reading selections from my short story collection The Scent and Other Stories: The Dark Side of Love.
The Farmington Writers Circle is a group of local writers who are interested in exploring and developing new means of marketing and publicizing their works.
For more information, contact Phil Slattery at phil@philslattery.com or via @philslattery201 or via this website.
By Bob Wood
A deserted old railroad track ran just outside West Point, a small town that reeked of it’s paper mill. The station master was killed there while carrying his lantern; his head being severed from his body, it’s said. Legend has it that late at night, when conditions are right, you can still see the light of his lantern on the track.
High schoolers liked to take dates to seek “The Light” in the gloom; most never did … but pursued other delights. I was enjoying other delights with my date when suddenly she stiffened … and breathlessly exclaimed, “I see the Light!”
Just a quick reminder that my three works published on Kindle are also available in paperback. You can find them either by googling “Amazon” and “Phil Slattery” or by following this link to my author’s page.
While you’re in Amazon, you will see that two of my stories can also be found in Creepy Campfire Quarterly and Infernal Ink.
All three of my works are also available on Kindle Unlimited.
The Farmington Writers Circle meets again on Thursday, January 12, in the Entertainmart (formerly Hardback) Café at 7:00 pm. I will be leading the discussion on what I have learned from publishing on Kindle and using their marketing tools. Everyone is invited.
The Farmington Writers Circle is a group of local writers who are interested in exploring and developing new means of marketing and publicizing their works.
If you have enjoyed some of my stories scattered around the Internet, I have good news for you. I have two collections of short stories and one novelette now available on Amazon in either Kindle or in paperback.
The two short story collections are entitled A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror, a collection of published and previously unpublished horror (obviously) short stories, and The Scent and Other Stories, a collection of short stories on love, relationships, and the dark side of human nature. The novelette is entitled Click. It is a suspense/thriller about a policeman recovering from an emotional trauma, who secludes himself on an isolated island only to find himself hunted by two unknown assailants.
To find out more about these works, including reading the praise I have received from readers for the published works, visit my Published Works page on this website.
I am pleased to announce that The Chamber Magazine is now live. Issue 1 contains a short story by George Gad Economou, a poem by FRED, and a non-fiction article by John A. DeLaughter on H.R. Giger.
Issue 2 will be online April 1. Please start submitting your stories, poetry, articles, and other works per the guidelines published on this site and at The Chamber.
Note the promotion timeframe for Diabolical has changed from what was announced in December.
I will be giving away the e-versions of two of my works over the next two months. I will announce each in advance and on the days it is free. Check back frequently for updates.
Diabolical: Three Stories of Jack Thurston and Revenge: January 1, 5, 12, 15, and 19.
The Scent and Other Stories: January 26, February 2, February 9, and February 14 (Valentine’s Day).
Happy New Year to all my followers! I hope you had a safe, happy, and enjoyable ringing-in of 2017 and that the rest of the year will continue to be as joyful or even better. 😊✌️🥂🍾
And just like that, another year of horror is in the books! I think we can all agree that 2016, in large part, was a dumpster fire of a year—but that’s the great thing about the movies, they’re an escape from the real world, an art that brings wonder and terror to life like nothing […]
by Tom Leins The barman at the Cock & Whistle is the least jolly-looking motherfucker I’ve ever seen wearing a Santa hat. I pay for my pint and back away, slowly — he is nursing a baseball bat …
I can hear the screams of my insecurities around my inner self And the cacophony turning my heart fly into murky clouds of ash.
While was writing “Backward, O Time”…I made an important discovery. Working my way through the scenes of the story in order, I came to one that would not write. I decided to skip it and come back to it later, and wrote the rest of the scenes in any order that occurred to me, leaving […]
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