Tag: Short Stories
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A Thousand Distant Radios by Woody Skinner – A Book Review
If you haven’t heard of Woody Skinner, I suggest you familiarize yourself with him. He’s a Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award winner whose work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Booth, The Carolina Quarterly, Mid-American Review, and more. I recently had the pleasure of making Skinner’s acquaintance. After hearing his backstory and learning about his writing…
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Announcing My Latest Short Story Collection: Happy, Sad, Funny, Mad
I’m so excited to announce that my latest short story collection, Happy, Sad, Funny, Mad, is now available at Amazon.com! In this collection, you’ll find forty very short stories of various genres that can be generally categorized as happy, sad, funny or … well, you get it. Some will make you laugh, some will make…
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A Sketch of Jason Willingham from Dr. Nekros: Phantasms and Chicanery
This is Jason Willingham, a self-made millionaire and innovator in the field of digital technology. He’s also the second husband of Zetta Southerland, Dr. Nekros’ ex-wife. He and Zetta married eleven years ago when he didn’t have a penny to his name. Ever the understanding husband, Jason is happy to help his wife try to…
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Stuck Inside On This Snowy Day? Let Me Help With That!
Stuck inside on this snowy day? Let me help with that! I would love it if you downloaded my e-book series entitled Dr. Nekros. Each installment is only ninety-nine cents. That’s almost five hundred pages of writing for less than three dollars! It’s available on both the Nook and the Kindle–remember, these are free apps…
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Star Wars: From a Certain Point Of View – A Book Review
This collection of short stories will satisfy every Star Wars fan alive. The premise is genius. It takes small, seemingly unimportant moments from A New Hope and zeroes in on them. It provides names and backstories, tragedies and victories, motivations and inclinations. It satisfyingly adds to a universe already well developed. One of these stories…
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Stories Of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang – A Book Review
As you know, I loved the film Arrival. As is my habit after watching a great movie based on a book, I immediately acquired the source material. It turns out that Stories Of Your Life and Others is actually a short story collection and “Story Of Your Life” is specifically the installment that served as Arrival’s…
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A Nice Review For The Imagination’s Provocation: Volume II
I want to take a moment and thank Joy Tashlik for offering some kind words about my short story collection entitled The Imagination’s Provocation: Volume II. She wrote, “This collection of short stories reads like a series of Twilight Zone episodes, in the most excellent way. The narratives start off plausibly enough, in an old…
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The Imagination’s Provocation: Volume II In Canada!
I love it when people send me pictures of themselves reading my books. This photograph of The Imagination’s Provocation: Volume II is sent in by Jacob Padin while vacationing in Canada. Thanks, Jacob, and I hope you enjoyed the short story collection!
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Halloween Is the Perfect Time To Read The Dr. Nekros Series
I can’t think of a better time to read all eighteen episodes of the Dr. Nekros series. It’s got humor, drama, action, adventure, and best of all, I like to think it can be downright creepy. Follow the address to find links to the entire saga. https://scottwilliamfoley.com/dr-nekros-occult-aficionado-e-series/
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20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill – A Book Review
I’ve read quite a bit by Joe Hill, and I have to say that 20th Century Ghosts is his best work. The stories in this collection are nearly perfect. Though each belongs to “genre,” they are so original and innovative that they demand their own definition. Some are horrifying, some are thought-provoking, some are downright…
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