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GregStolze

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Write a short story. It's fun! No one can stop you!
http://gregstolze.com/fiction-library/

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GregStolze, to Podcast
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OK, #podcast listeners, help me out here... If I started a podcast of me reading some of my old #stories...

  1. Would that make you happy? Maybe happy enough to part with some coin?

  2. What would be a good title, do you think?

GregStolze,
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@mcoorlim @wgahnagl Leaning towards “Greg Stolze’s Nightmare Bedtime Stories” but it’s early days yit.

GregStolze, to folklore
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore The fascinating trivia in this story, which has been set down in old old documents, is that the king in it is historical. There are accurate records of the genealogy of the Nepalese royal family.

When the Crown Prince of Nepal gunned down his mom, dad, and nine other members of the court in 2001, before shooting himself in the head, he ended the royal family… exactly ten generations after its founding.

3/3

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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: If a supernatural creature from German folklore gives you some random, apparently worthless crap, take it home. All of it.

You can thank me later.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/baking-with-73718258

GregStolze,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore You ever hear the story about the tutelary spirit of the Nepalese royal family making their founder an offer that he definitely refused?

GregStolze,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore Oh boy, get comfy but don’t eat anything.

AS I RECALL IT, this ancestor is kinda invading all over Nepal, subjugating some tribes, getting buy-in from others, unifying everything under his banner. He’s riding through the mountains and sees a beggar.

“Here ya go buddy,” he says, making a contribution. (Can’t remember if it was money or some food or what.)

“Thanks!” says the beggar. “Now I have something for you!”

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GregStolze,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore The beggar proceeds to vomit into his begging bowl. “Eat my puke!” he says.

“Um… no,” says the future first king of Nepal.

“You fool! You absolute idiot! If you’d just eaten barf from me, a stranger, your family would have ruled forever! As is, I can only give you ten generations!”

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GregStolze, to random
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Hey! Good news if you want fiction written by a live person, existing outside the walled gardens of billionaires! http://gregstolze.com/fiction-library/ has a new short story up, for free. It’s called BUILDING A DEATH RAY IS HARD.

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clive, to random
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Here's Alvin and the Chipmunks singing "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" ... except slowed down to 16 RPM:

https://soundcloud.com/alvin-thechipmunkson16sp/have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas

Make sure to read all the listener annotations on the song's timeline 😅

GregStolze,
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@clive Is it weird I’m seeing the Misfits in my rattled peanut shell of a brain?

GregStolze, to random
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Hey everybody. Once a month (or more often) I remind folks that I have a Patreon for fiction (https://www.patreon.com/GregStolze). I’m updating it soon, so if you want to sign on for $5 and get this month’s story as a BONUS, the time is now.

PENITENTIARY POOL BOY is this month’s tale, a sort of soft sequel to AFTER THE COPS. (That’s available free at http://gregstolze.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/AfterTheCops.pdf) Like the previous, it combines social SF with hard-boiled crime.

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GregStolze,
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The narrator/protagonist is a newbie corrections officer in a time of sweeping prison reform. Even as his workplace struggles with becoming more humane, he’s trying to solve a mystery from inside the cells.

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GregStolze,
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If you like gritty crime, cruise by http://gregstolze.com/fiction-library/ and have a look at CAREFUL, SHE BITES or A HOLE IN THE DARKNESS or THE MURDER QUEEN’S FAN MAIL.

All those stories are free to you, and everyone, because I got supported by fans who believe in my writing.

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GregStolze, to FantasyWriters
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#Editing some older work and forgot that I described a cult high-priest at the climax of a murderous summoning ceremony as “chanting and laughing and just generally self-actualizing.” #game #writing

GregStolze, to random
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Just read a brilliantly structured, wonderfully composed, deeply affecting short story.

I would give it a 1% chance of ever being read by 100 people.

GregStolze,
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@passenger Not mine to share…

bitterkarella, to random
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Harlan Ellison: listen up you chucklefucks
Ellison: it only happens once in a lifetime that an author emerges fully formed like athena from the forehead of zeus
Ellison: tonight you are going to hear from such an author
Ellison: a bold new truth teller who will put you all to shame
Ellison: a man named
Ellison: piers anthony

GregStolze,
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@bitterkarella Oh no, I remember this one

GregStolze, to 13thFloor
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Fellow #fiction #writers, check out the work of one of your own!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gregstolze/i-dream-of-insomnia

I DREAM OF INSOMNIA has 19 unique short stories by me, no AI, no focus groups, no nostalgia for an IP from 1979, no interference from marketing or the executive suite. Pure indie fiction from me to you, for five bucks!

GregStolze,
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This collection has AFTER THE COPS, my procedural set in an America undergoing sweeping police reform! It’s got gritty dirtbag crime, both domestic and cyber! It’s got a couple funny ones and a couple tragic ones, along with a lot about aliens who either don’t know what they want or aren’t good at explaining it. It’s got time travel!

GregStolze,
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All these stories, the fruit of my decades of writing experience and paranoia-fueled creativity, can be yours for the measly price of five bucks! But… you gotta pledge.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gregstolze/i-dream-of-insomnia

GregStolze, to story
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OK, let’s try something. Here’s a #story called STRANGER LAKE.

http://gregstolze.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/StrangerLake.pdf

Have a look. Did you like it? Funny? Interesting? Cool. Good. Glad you liked it.

Come a little deeper into the thread here…

#writing #horror #fiction #SF

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GregStolze, to 13thFloor
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OK, life hack for #fiction aficionados. If you sign up for https://www.patreon.com/GregStolze TODAY, you can spend just $5, read the #UnknownArmies inspired tale MICK AND THE LOVE and then, when it updates tomorrow, get the entirely new story!

I know times are tough out there, but c’mon. Five bucks?

GregStolze, to random
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SINCERE QUESTION

Is being cool about criticism of your earlier work the sign of a mature artist at the height of their creative power?

GregStolze,
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@passenger Well, the guy who wrote my least favorite thing we’ve read for LUDONARRATIVE DISSIDENTS just listened to the episode where we talk about it, so…

blockforest, to Horror
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Catching up on a missed film. M3GAN was fun! Feels a bit like a modern Chucky crossed with Ex Machina, a splash of Terminator and a few other android/AI sci-fi’s. 🤖

GregStolze,
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@blockforest Yeah, I liked it. Didn’t love it, but I remember a scene with a cop being ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS. Can’t zero in on what it was, but just some line delivery that had me instantly convinced this detective was 100% useless.

GregStolze,
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@blockforest The cop bit was the delivery of “His hand was basically torn clean off. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t laugh.”

GregStolze,
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@blockforest INSTANTLY plausible that the cops weren’t gonna accomplish anything.

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