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January 4, 2015
Ripper, a flash fiction story
Ripper, a flash fiction story by Ray Daley.
It made complete sense, when you stepped back far enough.
It was like one of those images that was only visible from a certain angle.
Of course he’d stopped killing now. Of course the ladies of Whitechapel were safe from harm now.
He’d not vanished off the face of the Earth like many believed to be the case.
He’d simply done his job, and returned home.
Back to America. Back to Lynchburg. The monotony of the brewery.
“Did you have a nice holiday, Mister Daniel?”
“Sure.”
“See all the sights that London had to offer?”
“Them, and many more besides,” he smirked.
“Home now though, Jasper?”
“Home and dry. And don’t call me Jasper. You know I much prefer Jack.”
THE END.
Authors Notes:-
If you check the dates, there’s no reason at all that Jasper Newton Daniel couldn’t have been Jack The Ripper.
January 2, 2015
1st story sub of the year!
Just submitted a story to C.C. Finlay’s second open call in F&SF.
2nd time’s the charm, hopefully. Got REAL good feedback last time.
Closes Jan 15th if you fancy your chances?
January 1, 2015
First freebie of the year!
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/506377 or http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/34940/the-old-ways
It’s the 1st #free #ebook of 2015!
It’s short so there’ll be another in 2 weeks.
If you like it, tweet me @RayDaleyWriter
December 31, 2014
Happy 2015!
So, first day of a brand new year. Any resolutions for me? No.
Other than to keep releasing 1 free ebook every month.
Anthology will be released soon, as will “Survival”.
I’ll try to stagger them by about 2-3 weeks so it’s not all advertising madness from me.
Januarys 1st free release up later.
December 24, 2014
Ray Bradbury Challenge, Week 52.
I HAVE DONE IT!
It’s the blog entry I was never expecting to write.
Week 52’s story now complete, about 3 hours work including research and eating dinner and annoying people ringing the house. 1914 words, and the anthology (as far as stories go, at least) is NOW FINISHED!
December 23, 2014
The big proof
I’m doing the job of proofing everything that isn’t going into the anthology. I did 30 stories today, managing 21 yesterday. So 51 in 2 days, which isn’t too bad.
Tomorrow is the start of week 52. I want to try and get the story banged out as soon as I can.
We’ll see how it goes.
December 20, 2014
Bladerunner poem, because it’s awesome
When you wish on a Nexus 6, It’s not something you can fix,
DNA is set in stone, Nexus 6 will die alone.
Burn the candle at both ends, killing humans with your friends,
Human beings are such slobs, Send out Gaff retiring Skin Jobs.
Set a thief to catch a thief says the spiel, Deckard is a Replicant – he’s not real.
Rush to Earth but you don’t know why, before too long it’s time to die.
December 19, 2014
Anthology Assemble!
Actually, it’s now done.
I just put it all together, the 51 currently written stories along with a table of contents and an introduction explaining the whole idea behind the book.
Just week 52’s story to write, the afterword and then the stats of what I wrote each week.
Oh, and a cover.
Then the anthology will be FINISHED! And ready to be released into an unsuspecting world.
December 17, 2014
Ray Bradbury Challenge, Week 51.
All finished with this weeks story, 1842 words in about 2 hours.
Bit of an odd idea but it was weird enough to not allow me to sleep before I handwrote most of it.
I just had to come up with an ending, and that came fairly easily just now.
A kooky golden age style story that I’m pretty happy with.
1 week left, and I already know what I’m doing for that.
We’re almost done!
December 16, 2014
All done, for now!
Smashed out those 2 bits of story typing up that were outstanding.
151 words and 410 words respectively.
Both need work but are finished, at least.
Not sure what next weeks story will be yet, hopefully one of the outlines I already drew up this yr.
We’ll see, I guess?
