Superhero Gang Bang!

According to the great blog COMICS MAKE NO SENSE this cover pic is of a prelude to an orgy! I'm saying nowt! Click on the post header for the link.

Flash Fiction Challenge: The Man From Esperanto

Well, it's the 4th of June here in Poland and my Flash Fiction Challenge story is here:Paul D. Brazill: The Man From Esperanto Aldo, Gerald and Patti created this flash fiction challenge- ' 'In the early nineties, a book was published where each story shared a single concept: "a wedding cake in the middle of the road." None of those stories were flash fiction, but let's see what we can do with that idea in a limited number of words. Stories should be around 750 words, but anything under 1000 wrds is good. You can set your wedding cake on a road on Mars, in Montana, or anywhere at all. In other words, all genres are welcome. The "wedding cake in the road" can be the main idea or a sidebar-so long as it's in there--like the gun in Plots with Guns. Mystery Dawg will publish stories on Powder Burn Flash where no blog is available.' I struggled to keep it below 1000! A full list of the stories will be at Patti's blog http://pattinase.blogspot.com/

Cormac Writes"They Call Her The Breeze"

'They Call Her The Breeze' is a great story over at Cormac Writes Cormac Writes: Best Of: "They Call Her The Breeze"

‘Broken Dreams’ by Nick Quantrill

Great news from Hull's finest crimewriter, Nick Quantrill 'I’m delighted to announce I’ve signed contracts for my novel, ‘Broken Dreams’, with Caffeine Nights Publishing. Caffeine Nights specialise in crime-fiction and I think their motto of wanting to entertain you with ‘fiction aimed at the heart and head’ is a perfect fit. ‘Broken Dreams’ will be available in paperback and all the new digital platforms like e-Readers and mobile phones from late 2009. More details to follow, but for now here’s a brief blurb: ‘Broken Dreams’ by Nick Quantrill Joe Geraghty, Private Investigator, is used to struggling from one case to the next, barely making the rent on his small office in the Old Town of Hull. Invited by a local businessman to investigate a member of his staff’s absenteeism, it’s the kind of surveillance work that Geraghty and his small team have performed countless times. When Jennifer Murdoch is found bleeding to death in her bed, Geraghty quickly finds himself trapped in the middle of a police investigation which stretches back to the days when the city had a thriving fishing industry. As the woman’s tangled private life begins to unravel, the trail leads Geraghty to local gangster-turned-respectable businessman, Frank Salford, a man with a significant stake in the city’s regeneration plans. Still haunted by the death of his wife in a house fire, it seems the people with the answers Geraghty wants are the police and Salford, both of whom want his co-operation for their own ends. With everything at stake, some would go to any length to get what they want, Geraghty included.' Nick's website -HULL CRIME SCENE- contains his great first novel -Black&White as well as two top short stories. http://www.hullcrimefiction.co.uk/ or click on the post header for the link.

Fire!

Three Poznan fire officers are to spend one month in the UK teaching Polish emigrants how to use electric sockets. Poles reluctant to buy the necessary adaptors for UK three-pin sockets have sparked a sudden increase in the number of electrical fires there, amounting to about seven thousand fires annually. Poznan resident Maciej Wilgosiewicz, who spent a year in the UK, said, “I never bought an adaptor, like my friends. In each socket we had matches or hair grips permanently stuck in. I didn’t even know that we could cause a fire that way.” The Polish officers are there to help overcome the language barrier and also cultural problems.