CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Before I forget...again... these are the weekly fan-price specials from LMPBN. Saturday, September 14, 2019, only, but they're each available for 99c, now, if anyone's looking for something new...or more from someone you already read: The Creative Strategist ( The Unstoppable Liv Beaufont #11) – https://books2read.com/u/bw2rxG One Damned Story After Another (The entire Protected by the Damned series) – https://books2read.com/u/b6kRAM Any Witch Way ( The Witch Next Door #3) – https://books2read.com/u/3GeWgQ Raid (Animus #9) – https://books2read.com/u/4XZ21v Keep Your Friends Close ( The Kurtherian End Game - Out of Time series #1) - https://books2read.com/u/3yvVxn        

This week’s verse moves from a science fiction poem about a hero returned from war to an urban-fantasy verse where a pixie's joke goes sour. It is taken from Another 365 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2019. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Play-Dead Pixie The pixie in the cherry tree did not look alive to me until he stirred, gave me a wink then closed his eyes before I could blink. What are you doing, I thought to say but then all my words went far away For a dragon landed by the tree looked at the pixie, looked at me What, pray tell, does he think to do playing dead, and in the cherry, too? I don’t know, I started to say perhaps he just likes to play The dragon glared, the pixie knew his ruse was rumbled so away he flew. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

This week’s short story takes us from a setting where vampires aren't quite as we expect to a science fiction about one woman's war against alien invaders. Welcome to Of Hunters & the Color Blue .   A letter reveals the writer’s love for her daughter, and her reasons for leaving the child behind. It is a tale of flight and rescue, the birth of an AI, and reveals a weakness that plagues the deadly enemy on her trail. Of Hunters & the Color Blue is available as a stand-alone short story at the following links: https://www.amazon.com/Hunters-Color-Blue-Loft-ebook/dp/B00D0NWDOK/ . You can also find Kristine Kathryn Rusch's latest free short story over on her blog: kriswrites.com . Why don't you go and check it out?

LAST WEEK, Simone talks about how she feels while mutating. This week, Tiger reveals she shouldn't have even been able to reach him... but he's glad she did. Chapter 2 Excerpt – You Scared Me! Wow, Simone! You really know how to scare the living daylights out of a guy! What are you doing in my head? How are you even writing to me? All I know is that you’re in isolation. You’re right. Your computer terminal isn’t even connected to the rest of the Moon Base 49, and your room is shielded to stop the wi-fi connection. You’re not supposed to be able to communicate with anyone who isn’t logged in to the stand-alone system outside your quarters. Not that I’m not happy to hear from you. I’m sorry if I sounded like that. It’s just you really scared me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The complete series is available as short, individual ebooks, and will become available as an omnibus, later this year. In th