Robert Allen Lupton's Blog

Short Story "The Moshe 12000

My short story, "The Moshe 12000, was published online by the amazing people at Stupefying Stories."

Read the story for free at:

http://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com...

Readers and Reviewers welcome.

New stories online

Two stories were published online the first week of October.

The first story is "Mirror Ques.t" Here's the link to the website, Aurora Wolf.

https://aurorawolf.com/2018/08/mirror...

The other story, "Rumpelstiltskin, Vegas Style." Here's the link to the website, Enchanted Conversations.

http://www.fairytalemagazine.com/2018...

Both stories are funny fantasies, at least I hope they are. Readers are welcome.

What's new in the new year

"Swim with the Beavers" has been chosen for inclusion in "Best Indie Speculative Fiction", with publication of the anthology later this year.

"Silence of the Cats" is available from Inwood Indiana Press online and in the anthology, "Unwanted Visitors".
Follow the link: http://inwoodindiana.com/silence-cats...

Two more short stories will be released in anthologies in the next few months. "Dark Cloud over Ladysmith" will be in Fighting Monkey Press's "Uncommon Evil" : www.fightingmonkeypress.com and "Snotslinger" will be in Tales from the Fluffy Bunny" from Wolfsinger Press: www.wolfsingerpubs.com

Final draft of Dragonborn, the sequel to Foxborn, is finished and off to editing. Publication is scheduled for May.

New Drabbles online

"Trembling with Fear" has posted two more drabbles on the website http://www.horrortree.com. 'Glass Slipper" and "Just Right" were posted in July and August 2017, respectively. Another drabble will be posted each month for the rest of the 2017. These new drabbles are 100 word horror versions of our favorite fairy tales.

Altarstone Publication

"Altarstone" will be published online by Horror Tree in the next thirty days in their section, "Trembling With Fear". This pieces of flash fiction takes place in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico.

It will be my third piece published in "Trembling With Fear", joining two drabbles, "Program Delete" and Swift Retribution."

"Trembling With Fear" is a free website. It is available at www,horrortree.com

Sunset For The Tattooed Lady

My six thousand word circus based murder mystery, "Sunset for the Tattooed Lady" went live this week on the website 'Crimson Streets'. There is no cost to access the site and read the story.

Crimson Streets publishes classic pulp fiction in many genres including adventure, western, horror, and mystery.

The address is crimsonstreets dot com. Enjoy.

Program Delete

My first Drabble, "Program Delete", a story of exactly 100 words will be published online in late January by The Horror Tree on their site, Trembling With Fear.

It should be available in print during the second half of 2017..

Soft Landings

The Scrimshawed Ostrich Egg

My NOLA pirate treasure - ghost story, "The Scrimshawed Ostrich Egg" is scheduled for publication on December 15, 2016 in the anthology, "World Unknown Review" compiled and edited by L. S. Engler.

If your are not familiar with L. S. Engler's body of work, I suggest you visit her Goodreads author's page at

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Dead Angel Trail

Firth Publishing will publish "Dead Angel Trail", a novelette as an EBook in spring 2017. The story is a genre fusion, it's a ghost story, a mystery, and a trail running story. Enjoy it on Kindle.

Sunset for the Tattooed Lady

Crimson Streets Magazine will publish Sunset for the Tattooed Lady. a murder mystery at a circus freak show in the February, 2016 issue. Check it out at Crimsonstreets.com.