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More short stories

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I have released two more short stories into the wild:

“The Saffron Curse”, originally published in On Spec #108, is now available everywhere ebooks are sold.

“…a great romp set in a Vancouver restaurant. This was good fun.” (SF Crowsnest)

Chef Eddie and his partner Amanda luck into a cheap site for the new restaurant they want to build. The old man they buy it from warns them that the site is cursed and makes them promise never to use saffron in their restaurant. But Eddie isn’t superstitious, and when a career-making critic shows up asking for his famous Badaboom monkfish dish—which contains saffron—well, what’s an ambitious chef to do?

This short story was featured in Tangent Online’s 2018 Recommended Reading List.

“The story’s pace and prose bristle with the energy of a crowded kitchen.” (Tangent Online) 

Barnes and Noble, Apple, etc.: https://books2read.com/u/4jarGl

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Saffron-Curse-Marcelle-Dube-ebook/dp/B07MJQWGRJ/

And “On a Dark Road to Nowhere,” originally published in Dawn of the Monsters, Issue 1 of Amazing Monster Tales:

When Naomi’s car breaks down on a deserted road in the middle of a Yukon winter night, she’s lucky to stumble across Maggie’s cabin. Then Maggie shows her what’s hiding in the woods around the cabin…

Barnes and Noble, Apple, etc.: https://books2read.com/u/mvvrX8

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Road-Nowhere-Marcelle-Dube-ebook/dp/B07MFZR6P3/

On a Dark Road to Nowhere

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Love pulp fiction?

Amazing Monster Tales is here to provide it! 

I’m pleased to announce that my short story, On a Dark Road to Nowhere, is part of a great new pulp anthology, Dawn of the Monsters, the first in the Amazing Monster Tales series. Better yet, I am in great company!

11 tales of monsters, mayhem, strange and inexplicable events, uncanny technologies, wildly improbable events, and more.  Some monsters you’ve seen before…

And some of them you haven’t!

Some monsters are the good guys…

And some of them are very, very bad indeed!

Featuring stories by:

Dean Wesley Smith • Ron Collins • P. D. Cacek • Mark Leslie • Steve Vernon • Annie Reed • Sèphera Girón • Rebecca M. Senese • Marcelle Dubé • Jamie Ferguson • DeAnna Knippling

DAWN OF THE MONSTERS

This volume, DAWN OF THE MONSTERS, features trolls, goblins, creeps, mad scientists, vampires, aliens, Frankenstein, a very nasty ex-girlfriend, a mysterious egg, a bargain you can’t refuse, something dark and mysterious that lives underground, and a disgusting, evil beast straight out of the swamp!

We can’t promise that these tales won’t make you think…but they’ll grab you by your sense of adventure and take you for a ride!

NEXT ISSUE

Look for MONSTER ROAD TRIP…and wear your shades!

BUY HERE!

In the Christmas mood…

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Every year, I try to write a Christmas short story because I love Christmas and, frankly, these Christmas short stories are the closest I ever get to being romantic. This year’s offering is set in the Mendenhall Mystery series. Here’s the blurb for “Trepalli’s Christmas”:

It’s Christmas eve day and Constable Marco Trepalli of the Mendenhall Police Department can’t wait to be off shift. He’s planning a big surprise for his girlfriend, Amanda. Something special. Something romantic.

Then a kid doesn’t return home after sledding and Trepalli forgets all about his plans in the mad scramble to mobilize search parties and interview the kid’s friends. And as hour after hour slips by with no sign of the boy, Trepalli braces himself for what could turn into the worst Christmas ever… for him and the kid’s family.

Amazon.ca: https://amzn.to/2Q3SE0u;  Amazon.com: https://amzn.to/2BcidUM

Barnes & Noble, Apple: https://www.books2read.com/u/m2vDp7

Kobo: https://bit.ly/2DK5trg

The Shoeless Kid available for free

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In honour of the upcoming publication of the trade paperback of The Shoeless Kid, the first in my Mendenhall Mystery series, I’m making the ebook free for a limited time. If you haven’t read it yet, here’s your chance to see where Kate’s story began.

Amazon: https://amzn.to/2EBK9Fv

Barnes and Noble, Kobo, iBooks: https://www.books2read.com/u/b62qYM

 

The Saffron Curse

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My latest short story, “The Saffron Curse,” is among a bunch of excellent stories (even if I do say so myself) in the latest issue of On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic. I just received my copies and am very proud to be included with these writers, especially Robin Carson!

I have no idea where the idea for Saffron came from, but it was a lot of fun to write!