Tales From The Town: Volumes 1 & 2

Tales From The Town reached its 101st episode last week, so to celebrate here’s two free anthologies collecting the first two years of this never ending series of stories from some sort of small-sized city.

Volume 1 (Summer, then Winter) collects the first 52 (standalone) episodes, while Volume 2 (The Lodger Suite), which was an attempt at an ongoing episodic story (with a bonus, pointless, palindromic structure, which was the style at the time), collects the next 40 or so.

Download: Tales From The Town Volume 1 & 2 (zip file containing epub files)

And as an even more exciting bonus, here’s a sneak preview of Tale #107, featuring a skeleton and also a spacesuit.

Tales From The Town #107: A Skeleton In A Spacesuit

The skeleton in the spacesuit stands at the entrance to the pier. The stitches are unravelling, the helmet fogged, the insignia faded to the point of illegibility, but still it works. Put in a pound and it laughs and laughs. It even gives an awkward little wave.

No one has ever put in a pound nor ever will.

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Female Kill Machine 2

Female Kill Machine 2 is the lightning-paced absurdist quantum explosion of ever-escalating cyberpunk insanity and hyperviolence sequel to the lightning-paced absurdist quantum explosion of ever-escalating cyberpunk insanity and hyperviolence original (Female Kill Machine 1).

“Time moves at the speed of thought. So while the short few months since the astonishing culmination of María and María’s last adventure lasted exactly that for the rest of the world, they were the equivalent of millennia in the minds of the two Female Kill Machines. Yet for the remaining decillionaires of this world and beyond, it was like the complete and utter annihilation of Xandy Mandelbrot had only happened mere hours before. And now they wanted their explosive neverending revenge.”

Female Kill Machine 2 is available to buy and read for £0 (or more) at Ko-Fi, Amazon and Patreon right now, and features upwards of 27,000 words of Absurdo astonishments.

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Notes:

1. Female Kill Machine 2 was written between July and September, 2022
2. Female Kill Machine 1 is available here.
3. If you haven’t read that yet.
4. You should because it’s good.

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The Islands Of The World (ebook version)

The Islands Of The World (a guide) is available as an ebook at my ko-fi shop now, if that’s the sort of thing that excites you. It’s free/pay as you want.

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Places In Space (Volume #1)

Places In Space is an episodic ultra lo-fi science fiction serial detailing a voyage of discovery through the solar system and beyond. Features some jokes, some sadness, occasional moments of beauty.

This volume collects the first 30 episodes into one volume, which you can either have for free as a pdf, or for actual money (although not much of it) if you’d prefer, from itunes (99p) and/or amazon (154p).

If you’re a subscriber to my patreon you can get these versions for free, too. Which I’m sure you’ll agree is very exciting and exceedingly generous (you’ll also be able to get a few other things, too, like Destination: Mars, Spiders Are Wonderful, and The Saddest Bear Of All).

Places In Space Volume 1 (pdf)
Places In Space Volume 1 (itunes)
Places In Space Volume 1 (amazon)

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Notes:

1. Places In Space Volume 1 ran from May 2019 until November 2019
2. The reason for the slight price discrepancy between itunes and amazon is due to their lowest price points being slightly different.
3. But both versions are basically the same as each other (and the pdf), just slightly modified to fit their standard/recommended screen dimensions

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The Complete Destination: Mars Collection

The complete Destination: Mars collection (containing all four parts) is available to buy as an ebook on iTunes and Amazon for £4.99.

The four separate parts can be found here:

Part 1 – Destination: Mars
Part 2 – Location: Mars
Part 3 – Contamination: Mars
Part 4 – Evacuation: Mars

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Notes:

1. The origin of Destination: Mars is that I bought two cheap A4 notebooks in the works for £2 each and they both had absolutely the worst cover ever

2. Which looks like it’s supposed to be a pun but is it a pun
3. I don’t know
4. If it is I don’t get it
5. Anyway so then I turned the wine glass into a spaceship on mars

6. And then filled the books up with stories

7. About mars

8. And the other places beyond

9. Also, I coloured this all in using a new pack of colouring pencils that I’d had for years but never used. So here is the complete Mars saga, represented by the shortness or longness of the pencils in my pack of pencils at the end of it all.

10. Used up permanent markers and black gel pens not shown

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