a (second) book of small stories

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here's another book of small stories, to go with last years book of small stories, if anyone remembers that (it's okay i can barely remember that and i wrote it)

anyway basically it's all my used and also unused stories from the last 12 months, plus some stuff from an unfinished, unpublished novel that i have gotten nowhere with, and some more cut-up works (this time featuring the imaginary beasts of jorge luis borges, and after that some haruki murakami)

hopefully some its okay, at least

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for some reason both these books are exactly 12000 words long (including story titles but not including the contents page). i cannot tell you why

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Also there's a miniature (but unillustrated) sequel to The Islands Of The World in there.

[richschnauzer]

Hooray! Will download later on the confuser

[blombluss]

I have no interest in reading this (I've just downloaded it).

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hooray

[blombluss]

This (A Second Book Of Small Stories) is a jolly good collection and round up of many things, although 'The Dinosaurs' stroy makes me

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sorry

[blombluss]

Don't be!

I'm working my way through the first collection/round up, now!

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A third book of small stories.

100 pages of stories and other things, some previously on accumulation of things, most not. Includes an unused bonus Female Kill Machine chapter from an alternate universe version or something, and several as yet unused tales from the town installments, plus lots of terrible poetry, and some gibberish about eyeballs. As usual.

AND MORE!

a third book of small stories.zip

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(zip file contains both pdf and epub version)

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The Box

We got The Box for Christmas, a joint present for each other. It sits there on the table, pulsing, glowing, trembling, flickering, wrapping paper still spread around it like a nest. We knew The Box was all the rage these days, but we weren’t particularly impressed.

“I don’t see what this does that the The Cube didn’t,” she said. It was her idea to get one so I was feeling kind of vindicated but not an £899 kind of vindicated.

“Or The Vase,” I said.

“This is much better than The fucking Vase,” she said. “That thing was so impractical. One little touch and it’d fall over and spill emergence fluid everywhere. It might have been cheap to buy but it was so expensive to run.”

“Yeah, but it had charm,” I said. I bloody loved The Vase. I really did. “A sort of style you know. And portability. We could take it round your Mums. This Box is just… a box.”

“A stable box that doesn’t run on fucking AAA batteries,” she said.

“But it’s so utilitarian,” I said, sighing wistfully. “Remember when technology was exciting. Now it’s just the same, but newer.”

“At least this doesn’t accidentally merge its extrusions,” she said, shuddering at the memory of some half-remembered Christmas now long past.

“I quite liked merged extrusions,” I said quietly.

“I never want to see a merged extrusion ever again in my life,” she said.

I hoped one day soon they’d bring The Vase back as a retro thing, merged extrusions and all. I’d have to keep it hidden away somewhere she’d never find it, but yeah, it could work. They were pretty portable after all.

[blombluss]

I enjoyed The Box, Davuss. Moar The Box, pls!

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a play

https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... ark-bench/

[blombluss]

Heh! Good stuff, sir!

Also, have you set up a Mastodon account yet? You should do so, and spread your goodness around!

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i haven't. i am scared

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of everyone, everything

[blombluss]

Well if you do, say so, and I'll re-sign up myself.