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Stories In Print
Mouth Full of Bullets ~ Spring 2008 ~ Print Issue #3
- Deal or No Deal
- Take the money or run.
- Mercy Killing
- Kindness comes in many forms.
- Venom
- Too stupid for words....
IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING
A Southern Indiana Writers Group anthology
Ever have one of those days? One of those years? One of those lives?
- Home on the Range
- It's hard enough being a vegan in a super-size society without the cows putting in their two cents' worth.
Marian Allen is a regular contributor to these anthologies. To read excerpts from some of the stories, visit the Southern Indiana Writers Group web site by clicking here.
Marion Zimmer Bradley's
SWORD AND SORCERESS XXII
- Child of Ice, Child of Flame
- There's always a price to pay for breaking the rules.
ON SPEC
Spring 2006
- Balance of Power
- The use of magic as a weapon changes the user as well as the target. Every use must be considered and controlled, because every weapon has a recoil.
PANGAIA
#33
- Seeking Shadow
- Her daughter's cat was missing. Where could she turn for help? An on-line Wiccan friend and a home-made ritual restore the richness of a woman's Christian faith.
Order from BBMedia's web site by clicking this link.
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Click a title to read any of the following free stories.
- High Stakes
One day I am reading Damon Runyon and thinking about horse racing. I am also thinking about vampires. Don't ask. High Stakes originally appeared in Volume 14 (January 1, 2001) of Peridot Books online. Peridot, a beautiful site of speculative fiction and informative non-fiction, is now ALLEGORY. (See Links page.)
- Blink
- How long does it take for your life to change forever? Blink is available for download as an audio file at Bound Off, a monthly literary audio magazine.
- Helping Hand
- How was Shereen supposed to read her daughter's shopping list with her pupils dilated from an eye exam? And they say love is blind.
- Shorts in Season
- A year's worth of flash fiction which appeared on this site in 2004.
- Brave Andrew and the Crop-Haired Lass
- A modern fairy tale. What dragon or ogre could compare to single combat against a social anxiety disorder? Andrew Lang to the rescue! This story appeared in E2K's final issue, November 2003. E2K has since ceased publication, and this page no longer loads properly, so I am archiving it on this site.
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Ashes
- The dark side of domesticity.
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Brown Leather Purse
- Florence, Italy.
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Library
- Checking out the librarian.
- Second Story
- What could be worse than doing time for burglary?
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Heart of Portland
- A young girl finds the antidote to hatred in an unexpected place. This 2000-word excerpt appeared in its longer form in the Southern Indiana Writers Group's WAY OUT WEST anthology.
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Evergreen Gaze
- What is lost but not forgotten is not entirely lost.
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The Woman Who Wasn't a Shave-tail
- A stand-alone story from Allen's SIDESHOW universe. A Marneri child is in danger. Uncle Shahtsi grudgingly conspires in the rescue, assisted by an alien from outer space--a Terran with a track record of making trouble.
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Pick of the Litter
- Trash or treasure? It's all in the heart of the beholder.
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Goldie
- One magical night at the beach....
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Holiday
- Everybody needs a little fun now and then.
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Cage
- A little girl comes to terms with a demon.
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The Stinky Awful Girl
- The comic, short story of Barfola Snotball.
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The Cautionary Tale of Silas Rockport
- Written in response to Paul Molyneaux's (editor of Laughter Loaf) remark, "It's hard to commercialize a holiday based on gratitude and humility."
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Personal Essay - My Mother
- Monsters from Greek mythology have families just like everybody else, you know. This story originally appeared in Paul Molyneaux's Wry Bred! (Loaf 1; Slice 3), October 1996. Wry Bred! was a print humor magazine, now an on-line humor magazine known as Laughter Loaf. (See Links page.)
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I Am Bick Pentameter, Private Eye
- A hard-boiled detective story written in...well...iambic pentameter.
- Prodigal
- What do you say to the father who abandoned you, when he shows up for your mother's funeral? This flash fiction won second place in NetAuthor/E2K's 2002 Annual Flash Fiction contest.
- Flashbacks
- Flash fiction previously posted on this site's home page.
2002 Collection
2003 Collection
2004 Collection
2005 Collection
2006 Collection
2007 Collection
2008 Collection
- Fan Fiction Click here.
- It's ancient, this practice of taking a work and expanding on it, playing with it, turning it on its head, or tweaking it to see how it looks all funny. It's done in good fun, and it's done with respect. Enjoy.
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