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  • HOWTO mix a grody-looking Alien Brain Hemorrhage cocktail


    bigBrains.com — Authority Authority: 147
    This revolting thing is a cocktail called an “Alien Brain Hemorrhage”: “To make an alien brain hemorrhage cocktail, fill a shot glass halfway with peach schnapps. Gently pour Bailey’s Irish Cream on top. After the shot is almost full, carefully add a small amount of blue curacao. After it settles, add a few ...
    1 day ago

  • Short Story – Allen’s Pledge By Brent Frysinger


    Derek's Vandal Blog — Authority Authority: 111
    Allen’s Pledge By Brent Frysinger “Gram you’re lazy,” Amber said. “You’re a procrastinator, you have no motivation to do anything,” as she rolled over. Gram quickly thought to himself, “I have plenty of motivation to to screw you,” gesturing the middle finger with her back turned. “Yes I know I ...
    3 days ago

  • Short Story – The White Lady By Michael C. Boxall


    Derek's Vandal Blog — Authority Authority: 111
    The White Lady By Michael C. Boxall Freighted with tapas and Concha y Toro and trailing ghosts in her glittering wake, the White Lady glides toward the quay, where a sparse crowd — ten? a dozen at most — raises a long yellow banner with black writing. From Peter’s daysailer Luca hears faint shouts across the ...
    4 days ago

  • The Bullitts


    Black Gossip, Celebrity Urban Entertainment, Hip Hop Hollywood News - JohnJohnSaidIt.com — Authority Authority: 136
    Have you listened to The Bullitts before? this electronic group is the brain child of producer and writer Jeymes Samuel and features the likes of Lucy Lui (yes the actress), Jay Electronica and Mos Def. The group’s newest single is titled Supercool and features the supercool Rosario Dawson. In the video, we watch as ...
    5 days ago

  • Meet Two New Voices in Local Sci-Fi: Sam Wilson and Charlie Human


    BOOK SA - News — Authority Authority: 119
    Science fiction and horror journal, Something Wicked , recently conducted an interview with two new voices in the local speculative fiction scene: Charlie Human and Sam Wilson . Both Wilson and Human have contributed stories to the sci-fi anthology, Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse and are ...
    5 days ago

  • Short Story – Runner’s Gauntlet By Jack Eason


    Derek's Vandal Blog — Authority Authority: 111
    Runner’s Gauntlet By Jack Eason Albert Johnstone and his pal Dick Madison had both enlisted at the same time, barely twelve weeks after war had been declared in 1914. At the time, Dick was nineteen and Albert was barely eighteen. Since then three long and bitterly hard fought years had passed in the ‘war to end ...
    5 days ago

  • Teaser Tuesday: A Guitar and a Pen


    Scobberlotch (v.) to loaf around, doing nothing in particular. — Authority Authority: 104
    Todays teaser is from A Guitar and A Pen: Stories by Country Musics Greatest Songwriters edited by novelist Robert Hicks, New York Times Bestselling author of The Widow of the South . What a great idea, right? This collection includes stories from Kris Kristofferson, Hal Ketchum, Tom T. Hall, Marshall Chapman ...
    6 days ago

  • 17 Stories That Failed and Why


    Daily (w)rite — Authority Authority: 473
    Ciara Ballintyne is a Twitter and Blog friend I have known for some time. Not only is she an engaging writer, she is serious about her craft, and willing to share her insights. Today she shares : Lessons Learned from ‘Nascence: 17 Stories That Failed and Why’ by Tobias S Buckell. It is a long-ish post, but ...
    6 days ago

  • EMERGENCY!


    K for Knowledge — Authority Authority: 111
    Child Choking! I had just begun my working day in San Diego, California, when these dreaded words came through the radio of the police car I was driving. I flipped on the red light and siren and sped off as the radio gave me my directions. Just my luck! I thought. I did not know this area well and my first call of the ...
    6 days ago

  • Wishes (Short Story)


    Blogging Authors — Authority Authority: 107
    Guest Post by George Arthur Davis The salesman sees her examining items on display. He recalls they once were lovers until she revealed she had another lover she loved more than him. She drifts towards him and will soon reach his station. He braces himself mentally for the encounter because she is still his only ...
    6 days ago

  • Short Story – Alex Russell’s iTest By Alex Russell


    Derek's Vandal Blog — Authority Authority: 111
    Alex Russell’s iTest By Alex Russell The day for my eye test with Doctor Gerbil has arrived – I’ve only had to wait five weeks. It’s early May but Vichy, the spa town, feels like a sauna. We find the ophthalmologist’s surgery not at number four, as we had been told, but at number eleven. Jane shrugs. ...
    6 days ago

  • Looking Back | Postcard Stories


    Head in the Clouds — Authority Authority: 85
    This past weekend, I spent some time digging through old files on the hard-drive; cringing at photos and snippets of creative writing from a few years ago. These ‘Postcard Tales’ are some of the more pleasant discoveries I made. To encourage more people to write creatively, I designed a postcard which I then ...
    6 days ago

  • Treat Your Girl Right. Plain and Simple


    Authspot — Authority Authority: 100
     She should be the first person you talk to in the morning, and the last person you whisper “Good night” to. Unlike some of your bros, she’s going to be there for you when you’re the happiest, but more importantly, when you’re at your lowest. She’ll cook for you and care for you, so treat her like a ...
    6 days ago

  • Never Judge Anyone


    Authspot — Authority Authority: 100
     He found the boy’s father pacing in the hall waiting for the doctor. On seeing him, the dad yelled, “Why did you take all this time to come? Don’t you know that my son’s life is in danger? Don’t you have any sense of responsibility?” The doctor smiled & said, “I am sorry, I wasn’t in the ...
    6 days ago

  • Helon Habila, Kopano Matlwa and Vamba Sherif Explore the Role of the African Writer


    BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority Authority: 112
    Authors Helon Habila, Kopano Matlwa and Vamba Sherif recently attended the Dutch literature festival, Writers Unlimited , where they discussed the expectations placed on the African author. Talking to Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Habila, author of Oil on Water , says that many African writers feel obliged ot ...
    1 week ago

  • Short Story – Get High By David Moon


    Derek's Vandal Blog — Authority Authority: 111
    Get High By David Moon Every year when the weather turns a bit warmer, I think of that hot night in 1975. I had a summer job in the Purchasing Department of the American National Bank on North Main Street in Jacksonville, Florida. One of my co-workers there was a former high school basketball teammate, James. We ...
    1 week ago

  • Short Story – A Personal Tempest in Cape Coral by Dayna Reid


    Derek's Vandal Blog — Authority Authority: 111
    A Personal Tempest in Cape Coral by Dayna Reid The moist, warm, air carries hints of the sea, sand, and palm leaves in a single breath. A twenty-minute drive from town takes you to the ocean. Surrounded by canals, this is not Italy’s Venice … but an American Venice—Cape Coral, Florida. There are no quaint ...
    1 week ago

  • Sunday Read: “Labyrinth” by Roberto Bolano


    BOOK SA - Magazine — Authority Authority: 116
    Those who have read any or all of Robert Bolaño’s novels will know that a new piece of fiction by the Chilean author is definitely not to be missed. New? Bolaño, who died in 2003 is certainly not pushing up any new fiction, but works are being pulled out of the writer’s archive and published posthumously as ...
    1 week ago

  • The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Short Fiction review)


    Reading on a Rainy Day — Authority Authority: 97
    Charlotte Gilmans  The Yellow Wallpaper is a work I have seen on and off on many blogs and websites but never really got to read until now. Mental illness is a topic that I tend to gravitate towards reading about, so when I finally finished reading this short story, I wasnt disappointed. The woman in the story is ...
    1 week ago

  • Short Story – Footprints in the Sand By Isabella King


    Derek's Vandal Blog — Authority Authority: 111
    Footprints in the Sand By Isabella King The sea might wash away all trace of our existence – but the love we shared will always endure. I look out through my children’s open bedroom window towards the shimmering ocean below. Quiet little waves are lapping up on to the sand as the sun begins its lazy journey ...
    1 week ago

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