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Boundless

“Please.”

God, he loved it when they begged. It was so hot.

“You know, they say that people are smart, that humanity is boundlessly creative and intelligent. I would disagree. While there are certainly plenty of smart people out there, although few as brilliant as myself, most of the people you encounter are varying degrees of dumb. If there’s anything about humanity that’s boundless, it’s stupidity.”

“You don’t have to do this.”

“Let’s take you, for example.”

“I swear I won’t tell anyone,”...

Pink Now Available as an Ebook

Yay for snow days!  It gave me the opportunity to finalize and upload Pink early.  As such:

The flash fiction story Pink is now available in ebook form.  It’s currently available on the Google Play store, on Scribd, and on Smashwords.  It should be rolling out to the other stores soon, with the exception of Amazon.  Kindle users will need to read it online here or download the mobi from Smashwords… or wait until I have a collection that I can put up on Amazon.  I’...

Pink

#6, that was the tarnished brass number on the door. His lucky number. He pushed the room key into the battle-scarred lock and turned. It took a bit of jiggling, but the knob reluctantly gave in, and Fleming stepped inside the room, closing the door behind him.

He’d been in this room, or one of its countless siblings, many times before. It was a room where the insects skittered across the floor in the night, while bigger prey skittered in the walls. The hotel, or maybe it was a motel, was the...

Now on Google Play

Cross-posted from bdcrowell.com:

It took me awhile to get around to it, but I’ve finally started putting the books up on the Google Play store.  They’re not all up there, but I have titles from both BD Crowell and D Lee Warren up, and I’m working on the rest, updating the back matter as I go.  I’m updating the Library with links as they go live in the store.  Just in the short time they’ve been up, with no advertising or fanfare from my camp, Google has already moved several copies. ...

A Pair of Curious Problems

I turned 40 not long ago.  That fact alone seems rather surreal and not quite possible.  Statistically speaking then, I’m about halfway through this life.  True, I may not be quite at the halfway point.  In fact, if I turn out to be one of those bizarre cases, it could be that I’m only a third of the way through.  Or it could be that I’ve expended two-thirds or better of the time I’ve been given.  We never know.  But for the sake of this posting, let’s settl...

All D Lee Stories FREE in October!

Ah, it’s Fall.  The weather’s cooler, the leaves are changing colors, there’s sweet and tart apple cider about, and soon the kiddies will be dressing up as princesses and… wait a minute, that doesn’t sound like D Lee.  Let me try again…

There’s a chill in the air.  The leaves on the trees are dying, turning brown.  They’ll soon release their grip, leaving stark branches outlined against a steely gray, uncaring sky.  The chill worms its way into the hearts of the peopl...

Sleep

Fuck, fuck, fuck!

An electric ceiling fan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Mark rolled onto his back… where he’d already been, along with his stomach and both sides.  He slammed a fist down onto the mattress in frustration and looked up at the ceiling.  It was dark except for a rectangle of orange running across it and partially down the opposing wall, pumped in through the window from the streetlight outside. That light turned the slowly spreading stain in the corner into a Halloween m...

Updates over on the Main Site

The bridge over the Haast River, north of the Haast township. At 737m it is the longest one-way road bridge in New Zealand, and the 7th longest New Zealand bridge overall. Transit New Zealand Frequently Asked Questions. Retrieved on . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I’m a bit late relaying this over here, but there have been a couple of updates over on the main site that I thought might be of interest to D Lee Warren fans.

There is now a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section that’s live. ...

More Flash Fiction

I’ve had so much fun with the couple of flash fiction stories I’ve done, I’ve decided to do some more and post them here regularly.  Well, regularly might be a strong word.  There are way too many demands on my time to commit to any kind of regular schedule, but I’m going to work to get a few of these quick little tales rattling around in my noggin put to pen and paper, or keyboard and screen, as it were.  If short fiction is your cup of tea, please take a moment to subscribe t...

Of Christmases Past free now at Smashwords and Wattpad

The flash fiction story Of Christmases Past has been given a cover and published at Smashwords and Wattpad so you can enjoy it on your ereader of choice.  For free!