{"id":343,"date":"2012-02-11T08:14:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T16:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2012-02-10T11:22:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:22:38","slug":"ten-new-stories-for-you-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/11\/ten-new-stories-for-you-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten “New” Stories for You to “Read”"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want, here are some short stories. (I stole that sentence, by the way, from Stephen King). I\u2019ve posted them over at Rife With Typos<\/a>, although a few have appeared on this blog over the past few weeks. All of these come from my daily exercise at 750words.com<\/a>, which is why they\u2019re so short. But you\u2019ll notice that I\u2019m not publishing everything from the daily exercises\u2014sometimes I wind up just blither blathering too much. I mean, I do have my arrogance, but I try to be at least somewhat discerning\u2026.<\/p>\n

Anyway, enjoy.<\/p>\n

We Accidentally Found a Trillion Dollars<\/a> appeared on this blog on January 18th<\/a>. I\u2019d had the idea for this story for a while now, but when I finally got into it, I couldn\u2019t get away from the one detail that I wound up riding all the way to the end.<\/p>\n

But Frederick, You Died Last Week<\/a>. This one is not very good, and the ending is a throw-away, but I want the darn thing done so I can move on.<\/p>\n

The Devil Inside- A Bad Film Review<\/a>. If you get nothing else from this, at least watch how I try to develop better writing technique in the \u201ccoming up with last names\u201d department and fail miserably.<\/p>\n

Different Rules, Same Game<\/a>. Not only are these from daily exercises, a lot of them come to me while I\u2019m at the gym running on the treadmill. This one was posted on the blog on January 26th<\/a>. I was going to called it “Buzzard Beater,” but then when I got done, I couldn’t remember what I was going to call it.<\/p>\n

Icy Drops of Water Running Down the Sides<\/a>. Slightly experimental, just one paragraph, two sentences. If I may so say, this one has a writing style I use all the time, taken, maybe, way too far.<\/p>\n

Just Another Tuesday<\/a>. Published on the blog yesterday. Supposed to be evocative of Tooth and Nail<\/a> was written while listening to Nightwish<\/a> and Blind Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lemon Jefferson, Stripper Pole Salesman<\/a>. Not sure where this one came from. Had the phrase \u201cstripper pole salesman\u201d in my head, and when I sat down to write, \u201cLemon Jefferson\u201d just popped in there. Then, while I was writing it, I tossed in a few gratuities, for the hell of it.<\/p>\n

Messin’ With Texas<\/a>. I really like this one, not sure why. It\u2019s in the same style as The Most Important Person in the Restaurant,<\/a> a style I might play around with some more in the future.<\/p>\n

Mr. Luigi’s Delicious Pizzas<\/a>. I do these daily writing exercises, and sometimes I can\u2019t think of what to write about. So I got the idea then when I\u2019m stuck, I\u2019ll write about this pizza place. So far, I\u2019ve only done so twice, and the first one never got finished.<\/p>\n

The Witch Nutella<\/a>. Maybe this one is a bit silly, but oh well. Sometimes you just pick a genre, pick a few tropes, and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want, here are some short stories. (I stole that sentence, by the way, from Stephen King). I\u2019ve posted them over at Rife With Typos, although a few have appeared on this blog over the past few weeks. All of these come from my daily exercise at 750words.com, which is why they\u2019re so short. … <\/p>\n

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