Archive for the ‘Steve’s Shorts’ Category

News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #58…

Friday, October 11th, 2013

[A heartfelt thanks to you! I don’t say it often enough here, but I want to thank every person who reads this newsletter, my other blog posts, and, of course, my novels and short stories.  My goal is to entertain.  If I’ve entertained just one person with any sample of my writing, I feel successful.  If I’ve made you pause and reflect, even better.  And, if you’ve enjoyed my writing, please pass a kind word on to your friends and relatives.  In spite of today’s internet marketing, word of mouth is still the best marketing tool an author can have!  Read on for some freebies.—Steve]

#323: Amazon promos of my new releases.  Just for you, my faithful readers of this newsletter, I offer this advance notice: My two new releases, No Amber Waves of Grain and Pasodobles in a Quantum Stringscape, are available as freebies on Amazon from Thursday, October 17, through Monday, October 21.  The first ebook, a sci-fi thriller, completes the “Clones and Mutant Series,” initiated by Full Medical and Evil Agenda.  The second ebook, an anthology of speculative fiction, contains the novella “Flight from Mother World,” several Doctor Carlos stories set in a future beyond that of the “Chaos Chronicles Series,” and many short stories about zombies, ghosts, weird and/or humorous situations, and unconventional sci-fi themes (please note that these short stories are no longer available in “Steve’s Shorts”).

Here’s the blurb from the Amazon webpage for No Amber Waves of Grain:  “Steve Moore’s new sci-fi thriller carries the reader beyond government conspiracies and political intrigue to world-wide suspense and action. His new addition to the “Clones and Mutants Series” features many players from Full Medical and Evil Agenda: Kalidas Metropolis and friend, two clones, and your favorite evildoer Vladimir Kalinin aka Rupert Snyder aka Sergio Battaglia, who will surprise readers of the first two books in the series. But this country-hopping tale also stands alone as a glimpse into a possible future where forces, both good and evil, aided by science and technology, fight to the death.”

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Roles…a short story gift…

Thursday, January 31st, 2013

Another freebie…this short story will introduce you to NYPD homicide detective Sgt. Rolando Castilblanco.  You might not have met him before.  This was written after Pop Two Antacids and Have Some Java, an anthology about some other cases he lived through with his partner, Dao-Ming Chen.  They are main characters in The Midas Bomb and Angels Need Not Apply.  They will also be featured in The Golden Years of Virginia Morgan…coming soon!  A third yarn about Castilblanco helping Chen, who has been framed for murder, will add a true mystery tale to “The Detectives Chen and Castiblanco Series.”  (I’ve decided to not call that a trilogy, because I like these characters too much.)  Enjoy!

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Roles

Steven M. Moore

Copyright, 2012

Roles.  We all play them.  Some of us decide who we want to be and play that role.  Others decide for us and we just slip into those roles.

I looked like a homeless person.  I reeked of bad booze and bodily odors.  The old stained raincoat had an old brandy bottle corked with a paper towel in one pocket and a screw-top bourbon bottle with a few fingers left in the other.  They had wrapped my feet in rags and stuffed them into boots two sizes too big, along with the bottoms of the pants’ legs.

I was playing a role.  I was trying to become a victim.

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Steve’s shorts: Character Assassination

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

This was available for some time for next-to-nothing on Amazon Shorts.  Alas, the latter has been sacrificed to the marketing gods–Amazon’s loss, your gain, especially if you have read my sci-fi thriller Full Medical. An old friend was upset that I killed off his favorite character in that book, so I resurrected him, in a sense.  Enjoy.

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Character Assassination

Steven M. Moore

Copyright, 2007

 

“Your holiness, sir, I really want to lodge a complaint.”

St. Peter twirled the keys to the gates to heaven with his left hand, his right perched jauntily on his corresponding hip.  He was assuming a defiant pose as this was the first case where a fictional character had wandered up to the heavenly gates.  He didn’t know quite what to do with him.  In the meantime, he was twirling the keys to the kingdom with his left hand so that Old Bob would know that the saints were ambidextrous, not favoring either the left or the right, but the old drunk apparently was not impressed.  So the bearded saint decided to demand an explanation.

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