Anthology of Snippets

by John West

OLD VERSION
Now expanded and incorporated into "TALES FROM THE CRYING ROOM," with additional stories.
Unable to remove this old version.
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At weekly meetings, aspiring writers are often expected to write something at the drop of a hat. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes the exercise spawns a semi-decent idea, that can be tweaked and prodded into pretending it's a real story.

These aren't those.

These are the ones left bleeding on the floor of the operating theatre. They are not full stories. Just bits of scenes. Paragraphs. Snippets.

Most writers leave these tucked away in private notebooks. That's probably where they belong. But on the off-chance anyone wants to peek inside the mind of an aspiring writer to see how ideas develop - and often die - here's your chance to read 20 ad hoc short shorts that might at least raise a smile.

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Published April 13, 2021

About the author

We've all had those nights where drunken sex with a witch in a blood pentagram under a full moon on the roof of your favourite Johannesburg nightclub summons a hard-drinking demon who changes the fate of the human race forever.
Right?
No?
Just me, then?

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Now I spend my days managing client finances, writing novels and short stories, and growing old disgracefully.

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Check out 25 Gates of Hell - a new horror anthology launched at #1 on Amazon's new release list, containing one of my twisted tales. www.amazon.com/author/burning

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Thanks for visiting my author page. You can contact me at BurningBooksPublishing@gmail.com
Cheers.

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⛥ Shorty's Poems - amazon.com/author/shorty
⛥ Al'iinsania, Shadows of the Street - bit.ly/Aliinsania
⛥ Six Poems - bit.ly/SixPoems
⛥ Got Change? - Books2Read.com/b/JPMyers
⛥ Incranium - Books2Read.com/b/JP

These anthologies contain one or more of my short stories.
⛥ 666 - bit.ly/666shorts
⛥ 25 Gates of Hell - amzn.to/3LxqTai
⛥ Beyond - getbook.at/tgvb_beyond
⛥ Flambé, A Silk Tie Murder, and The Rooibos Baby - bit.ly/FlambeRae
⛥ Fenechty Anthology of Short Stories - bit.ly/Fenechty

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Paperback ISBNs
9780620713276 - Burning Roses
9780620833035 - Valhalla
9780620846110 - Hard Money
9780639824802 - Crying Room
9780620882026 - Sleeping Gods
9780620882033 - Big Day Out
9798465170369 - 666
9798557703208 - 25 Gates of Hell
9798810511625 - Beyond
9781647134532 - Flambé
9798518460041 - Fenechty
9798201701987 - Got Change?
9798201736224 - Incranium
9780620872133 - Shorty's Poems
9780639719955 - Shorty's Prayer
9780620894531 - Al'iinsania

Reviews

[John West · Rating 5 out of 5]

Funny as Hell.

[John West · Rating 4 out of 5]

Original version. Not bad. New version is better.