Free from the author via KDP Select @
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52 Songs, 52 Stories by Iain Rowan (
ISFDB), a collection of short stories written from the inspiration of selected pop-culture songs. Rowan has had sfnal shorts appear in Prime Books-published collections, and some of his crime shorts have appeared in the Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines and won the Derringer Dagger Award.
A very simple idea. Each week for a year, I picked a song at random, wrote a story inspired by it, and published it on the web to an audience of several thousand. This book is the result.
Fifty-two songs, fifty-two stories.
A mix of genres and themes, as you might expect from stories inspired by artists as diverse as the Velvet Underground, John Cage, The Beastie Boys, Tom Waits, The Cure, Lee Hazlewood, My Bloody Valentine, Johnny Cash, LCD Soundsystem and Justin Timberlake.
Also still free from the author @
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Looking for Goats, Finding Monkeys by Iain Rowan (as I. F. Rowan), ancient China fantasy/horror adventure short originally published in Black Gate magazine.
Dao Shi is not a bad man. Granted, he is a liar and a charlatan and a con-man, but aside from that he's not a bad man. He earns his living with mumbo-jumbo and magic tricks, convincing the gullible and superstitious that he is a master exorcist who can rid them of the demons and hungry ancestor-spirits that they blame for their bad luck, even though the closest Dao Shi has come to a ghost has been in his bad dreams after over-indulging at Mama Shen's.
One day though, Dao Shi runs into much more than he bargained for…
He also has a few more freebie crime/horror shorts (including an award-nominated one) which can be found via
Smashwords keyword search for his name.