New $.99 Short Stories by David Michael (Slipstream/Horror)

[DavidRM]

"Evanescent"

She's the girl you meet every year for the first time. She has red-gold hair, sky-blue eyes, and just a splash of freckles across her cheeks. She's as young as you are, or as old. She dances in the rain and splashes in the puddles. She jumps in the leaves and spins with the wind. She steps out of the fog to smile at you, then disappears before you can ask her name... (5400-word slipstream short story)

Available for Kindle, Nook, and from Smashwords.

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"The Perfect Hiding Place"

The house next door has been sold and the new neighbors are moving in. Do you think they’re religious? They seem to have a lot of kids. Do you think they’re hiding something? They look ethnic. Do you think they might be worth robbing? No, obviously, they can’t be *monkeys* ... (5500-word slipstream short story)

Available for Kindle, Nook, and from Smashwords.

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"Sweet Tooth"

Ted Millet, divorced and broke and tired of getting up at 2 am, shows up for work anyway at the Jenny-Buns Donut Shop. If he doesn't make the donuts, no one else will. This morning, though, he has a new customer waiting for him that makes his ex-wife seem almost human. (3100-word horror short story)

Available for Kindle, Nook, and from Smashwords.

All ebooks are DRM-free!

[caleb72]

Too...many...David...Michael...ebooks...to...buy!



Regards
Caleb

[DavidRM]

Originally Posted by caleb72

Too...many...David...Michael...ebooks...to...buy!



Regards
Caleb

I do try to stay busy.

-David

[caleb72]

It's a little frustrating - everytime I think I own your whole collection a new bunch is released.

On the other hand it's the kind of problem you want to have.

Regards
Caleb

[DavidRM]

Wow. Thanks, Caleb. =)

So...I have good news and bad news...

The bad news is that there are two more stories on the way ("Secondhand Coffin" and "Effie Two-Five"), and another collection ("The World Wears Thin", which has a number of the stories I've released lately, plus a few more). And then another collection ("Slipping Streams", also a mix of released and new).

The good news is that none of those will be out *this* week. Late next week at the earliest. And the second collection is probably two weeks away. At least. Promise. =)

-David

PS Really: Thanks! You made my day. =)

[caleb72]

So more to be on my wish list.

By the way, are you cooking up another novel? I haven't read The Door to the Sky yet but am intending to read it soon.

Regards
Caleb

[DavidRM]

I'm working on a new novel now. A dark urban fantasy.

I also have 2 completed novels, an alternate history fantasy (finished in January) and a tween contemporary fantasy (finished last week). Once I get through my backlog of short stories (and I'm almost finished), I'll be editing those novels and moving them toward release in the summer. I'm expecting the novel I'm writing now to be available by fall, but I'm due to have a baby between now and then. So we'll see how it plays. =)

-David

[DavidRM]

"Nostalgia"

Two yellowing Polaroids, snapshots of a little girl at the fair. Two different childhoods separated by the death of her father. One childhood she can’t remember, ruined by the one she wants to forget. When her boyfriend’s "birthday surprise" turns out to be a date at the same fair, Sharon finds herself face to face with both.
(6500-word slipstream short story)

Available for Kindle, Nook, and from Smashwords.

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"Baptism"

The story of Noah’s Ark, in the modern age, in reverse...

Drunk on mojitos, high on love, and smelling of sex just consummated on the beach, Myra Acevedo went swimming for the last time. When she came out of the clear water of the Yucatan peninsula, she was no longer just Myra. She had become the end of the world.
(6000-word horror short story)

Available for Kindle, Nook, and from Smashwords.

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All ebooks are DRM-free!

[DavidRM]

"Curtain Call"

The White Hot Hemisphere Community Theater Company chose Shakespeare's Hamlet for their first production after the cataclysm--and possibly their last before the end of the world. As a tragedy, as a play about loss and descent into madness, Hamlet seemed an appropriate choice, at least to those players who could still make nonliteral inferences... (2200-word science fiction short story)

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"Insanity"

Corporal Jonathan Nathan "Drooz" Andrews opens his eyes--and immediately wishes he hadn't done that. He's not sure what he signed up for, but it looks like the "future of modern warfare" has caught up with him. And he already knows he isn't going to like it. (3600-word short story)

Available for Kindle, Nook, and from Smashwords.

All ebooks are DRM-free!

[DavidRM]

"Effie Two-Five"

Make a wish. Brace for impact. Find a vein and take a hit of the new--and highly illegal--wonder drug with the street name "effie two-five". You can be faster. Stronger. Anything you want to be--even a porno superhero. But be careful. Effie two-five has a serious learning curve. And you should have a lot of munchies handy. (8300 word spec-fic short story).

Available for Kindle, Nook, and from Smashwords.

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"Secondhand Coffin"

A coffin isn’t always a final destination. It certainly wasn’t for Lacey. Murdered, Lacey spends her days as the unseen occupant of a showroom coffin. At night, though, when the lid is closed, she is once again wrapped in a rug and covered with cement, reliving the horror of her death. Until the night another body is dropped into her coffin. (2500-word ghost/horror short story)

Available for Kindle, Nook, and from Smashwords.

All ebooks are DRM-free!