Name Your Oddest

Good late evening to my friends, you know and I know who you are, and that is perfectly fine by me and I hope you feel the same. I notice that I usually have the same twenty or thirty views on my blog. That's really more than I ever expected, so I'm not complaining. I have recently done some research on the subject. It isn't easy to find people interested in a blog, so if anyone follows it seriously, then you have done pretty well. There are fifty million bloggers out there, all clamoring for the most followers. I don't stand a chance in that market, so I don't try that hard.

I am not a professional blogger. However, I am a moderately professional author, even though my output that's currently available on the market consists of only short stories and one decent sized novella. As you will assume, and correctly at that, I must continue working my day job for now. I don't mind really. I have had an unprecedented length of time off due to the car accident, broken back, back surgery, surgeon seemingly operating on random places but leaving others broken - but I am feeling much better. Anyone who has had to deal with spine injuries of this magnitude and incurred no spinal column damage as a result will doubtless echo my feelings of gratitude to whatever force chose to spare us from paralysis. And that is all I have to say about that issue.

So, back to the topic of my blog post!

If you have read any of my short fiction, you probably know that I have a tendency to veer away from happy endings. This is because I write horror and horror to me is a reflection of the ultimate reality of the human condition, we live, we suffer and we die. To quote Jim Morrison, "No one here gets out alive!"

With that being said, though, I refuse to let that dark side disallow me my fun. I do love humor and horror equally, and I have always felt the two can coexist very well when done properly. The greatest horror of all would have to be the inability to laugh about the whole big mess.

I think the weirdest story I have published would have to be Way Out Of Here. If you want to check it out, it is actually free on Amazon right now.
Now that I have gotten that greedy self-promotion into my blog, which I assume is still okay, someone correct me if I have erred here, what I want to find out is: What is the weirdest book, novella or short story you have ever read or written?

Looking forward to your selections!

If you want to read Way Out Of Here follow this link for the freebie!

http://www.amazon.com/Way-Out-Here-Ad...

Well, thanks for reading this old blog everyone. Hopefully I will be more active with it going forward.
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Published on February 24, 2014 21:20 Tags: bizarre, free-book, horror, odd, strange
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message 1: by Jason (new)

Jason Parent Full disclosure, I have met Gregor Xane through this site, but it is without any promotional proclivity that I would rank his novella, Six Dead Spots, as one of the strangest stories I have read recently, definitely in a good way. The second part of The Dark Tower I found very abstract - not sure yet how I feel about that series. Your own Continuance Agency was fantastic and, if you write more on it, I suspect it may take a turn toward the bizarre. For horror/humor, John Dies at the End always comes to mind.

But those are horror works. I haven't read much bizarro, and I am sure half the novels from Damnation Press might qualify


message 2: by Adam (new)

Adam Light Jason wrote: "Full disclosure, I have met Gregor Xane through this site, but it is without any promotional proclivity that I would rank his novella, Six Dead Spots, as one of the strangest stories I have read re..."

Thanks for mentioning The Continuance Agency, Jason. Interestingly enough, it seems to be the one most people absolutely abhor. I do plan to continue on with that story but I blundered when I put the first part out before having it more thought out. I know Gregor from Goodreads, too. Hell of a nice guy and I agree with you about his Six Dead Spots. Wow! That one screwed with my head on a lot of levels. Gregor is an excellent writer. I agree it was unique and delightful. I don't read much bizarro, either. I think if you read too much of it, nothing will seem strange at all after a little while.


message 3: by Jason (new)

Jason Parent Abhor? I loved The Continuance Agency! I am surprised to hear that, really. My tastes are, admittedly, probably slightly off-kilter from the mainstream, but...


message 4: by Adam (new)

Adam Light .... which is clearly on display in your decision to hang out with the tumbleweed and crickets here on my ghost blog. Thanks, by the way, Jason.
It gets so lonely here...
Really am challenged when it comes to social media.


message 5: by Evans (new)

Evans Light Goodreads doesn't do a great job featuring blog posts, in my opinion.
Hell, I've got surveillance set up on you 24/7 just to make sure none of my stuff goes missing, and even with all that in place I just saw this blog post for the first time today.


message 6: by Evans (last edited Mar 02, 2014 07:42AM) (new)

Evans Light Jason wrote: "Full disclosure, I have met Gregor Xane through this site, but it is without any promotional proclivity that I would rank his novella, Six Dead Spots, as one of the strangest stories I have read re..."

I second that one, Jason. And I thought Adam's Continuance Agency was great, too...now if I could just talk him into expanding it into a full-blown book!

David Wong's books nicely toes the line of "weird yet readable", much like yours does. Love them.

There's a lot of weird/bizarro stuff floating around out there, but most of it is not fun to read.

Let me nominate a couple weird ones for ya:

They Had Goat Heads by D. Harlan Wilson They Had Goat Heads by D. Harlan Wilson - like jazz, this book is best enjoyed in small doses.

Big Gurl by Thom Metzger Big Gurl by Thom Metzger and rachMiel (dude changed his name from Richard, hmmmm) - found this book in a dark crevice in the back of a sketchy thrift store. Started reading it a few days ago. It's weird in a way I've never seen before. Someone recently salvaged this book and re-released it on kindle, so I'll keep you posted if it's worth picking up.


message 7: by Adam (new)

Adam Light Thanks for the suggestions, bro. We all agree Wong is a freaking hilarious guy, and I will take the other two into consideration pending your review of Big Gurl. I wonder if there are other ways to build up viewership of GR blogs. Do you think sharing on Twitter might work?


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