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Free Fiction Friday: "The Rise & Fall of Basskick"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "The Rise and Fall of Basskick."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. But for now, you can read it right here for free!

This story includes characters we first met in my novel The Prodigal Sons, except it's over a decade later.

Basskick the band just might be getting...

New eBook Bundle: Science Fiction Five-Pack

Now that the "Remainders" has ended its free weekly run, I thought I'd announce a new little endeavor I've been working on to share my stories in this digital age.

I'm gathering stories from this Free Fiction Friday series and creating "bundles" of related stories to sell as one ebook. This way, you get a short-story collection at a fraction of the price of buying individual issue–you'll save two dollars off the "cover price" of buying each story individually!

And I get to design crazy covers l...

Free Fiction Friday: "This Divided Land"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "This Divided Land."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. But for now, you can read it right here for free!

This story was first published in Jigsaw Nation, May 2006.

"Of all the stories in Jigsaw Nation, this was the one that felt the realest, and maybe that's why it...

A Wild Epidemic of Magic: Chapter 4

A Wild Epidemic of Magic (tentative cover ), art by Ron Chapple Studios

Now we have chapter 4 of my new contemporary fantasy novel, A Wild Epidemic of Magic, a sequel to A Sudden Outbreak of Magic.

I'm having a ball writing this book, and I hope you'll join me for the ride.

And if you read all the way to the bottom, there's a special offer waiting for you…

Here are links to previous sections:

Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3

A Wild Epidemic of MagicChapter 4

One second, Alexander the dragon ...

Free Fiction Friday: "Remainders"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Remainders."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. But for now, you can read it right here for free!

This story was a second prize-winner in the SF Reader annual contest, and it was published there in February 2004.

Remainders

Jaret Lazarus forced his eyes to remain open a...

Free Fiction Friday: "The Death Sentence"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "The Death Sentence."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. But for now, you can read it right here for free!

This is one of my oldest stories, and it was my attempt to literalize a metaphor. Yeah, that's totally what I was trying to do. Literalize that sucker. Oh, and...

New Ebook Bundles: High Fantasy and Dark Fantasy

Now that almost 3/4 of the year has passed us by already, I've started gathering stories from my Free Fiction Friday series and creating "bundles" of related stories to sell as one ebook.

This way, you get a short-story collection at a fraction of the price of buying individual issue–you'll save one-two dollars off the "cover price" of buying each story individually!

And I get to design crazy covers like those to the right.

Here are two of my most recent bundles:

High Fantasy Four-Pack:

"An...

Free Fiction Friday: "The Deck"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "The Deck."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. But for now, you can read it right here for free!

"The Deck" was first published at Windhover, May 2003. And yes, I did write this after getting a parking ticket while I was attending classes, thanks for asking!

The Deck

Jer...

Free Fiction Friday: "The Last Sorcerer"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "The Last Sorcerer."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. But for now, you can read it right here for free!

This is officially the oldest story of all my Fiction Friday stories — I wrote the opening scene way back in the early '90s, back when I was teaching junior high s...

New Facebook Author Page — Hope You "Like" It

Hey all — just a quick note that I created a new Facebook page this weekend. It's an "Author" page, a place where I can put all my writing-related posts and links and blog entries and whatnot.

I've been wanting for a while to keep all that stuff separate from my regular Facebook page, which I'll continue to use (mainly for cute photos of our kids and cats, most likely!).

Writing stuff: Michael Jasper Author page (click the "Like" button after you arrive!)Cute kids and kitties: Michael Jasper...