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Four bizarre tales
If I could live my life again (old people think about things like this), I would like it to be as a writer of fiction. Sure, I write fiction now, but it is the last gasp of a drowning man desperate to share the madness of his mind by heaving ropes of words toward random rafts. (If I do live my life again, I promise not to write sentences like that.) In other words, in my next life I’d like to be a professional with an agent, a publisher, and a shelf full of respected books.
That won’t happen, so to rescue a few of my stranger tales here on Medium from sinking into the oblivion of my archive, I am linking them here. If you read any of them, kindly heave me a rope of comments!
Four Featured Bizarre Tales:
- Washed in the Blood, A prisoner’s tale. Don’t read if you can’t stand the sight of blood. Published in Florilegium.
- Talking Heads, a laid-back tropical whodunit, published in Lit Up.
- Tentative Tentacles, Trembling Testicles, Nude or naked, it is a strange story. Also published in Florilegium, my publication, since I doubted anyone else would touch it!
- Three Letters Home is an epistolary horror tale and certainly not written to inspire tourism — especially in the Spanish colonial period. I include it here because I think it has been neglected. It was my first story a beta reader describe as bizarre and “not my kind of thing.”
Curious about my published fiction, poetry or essays? You can browse my archive HERE.
