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The Blue Finger of Fate

By Mark A. Rayner One day, The Hand started crushing only the assholes of the world. The Hand had plagued human existence for as long…

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The Ruins

Life and death were in the ruins. The old cottage was filled with a riot of primal green ferns and stinging nettles. The only bright…

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The 14 people you need to help you decide if you should publish or not

There are three things that I love about this: they are tremendous and witty words of wisdom from Mark Twain. it is narrated by John…

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An Open Letter to Boris Johnson’s Hair

Dear Boris Johnson’s Hair, It’s really not going very well, is it? But it’s not your fault. It really isn’t. In the history of British…

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Alpha Max won an award for best cover design!

Great news: my latest novel won an IndieReader Discovery Award for the Best Cover Design (fiction)! This is exciting news – I knew I’d found…

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The Paternoster

I was late. I’d arrived in Prague just that week, in 1993, and I was still figuring out how to get around. I thought an…

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The Zipper

Probably the most deranged convergence of chaos theory and existentialism I ever faced was a carnival ride called the “Zipper”.  This gas powered, g-force monster…

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Review: A Time and a Place, or, How I Was Tuckerized

Full disclosure: Joe Mahoney is a friend of mine and we host a podcast together, so I may be a little biased. But let’s start…

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The Digital Sabbath, or Why I Never Reply to Your Emails on Saturday

If it’s Saturday and you’re reading this, I am far away from you. That’s because every week, I unplug and celebrate what I call the digital sabbath.…

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Protected: The Blue Finger of Fate

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