Spring is Here – poem
Spring is Here
Spring is here,
green shoots are breaking through the grey.
The last of the snow is melting away,
as the days get milder and longer.
The trees are budding,
giving the squirrels a feast.
See the tulip leaves coming up,
pushing away the plastic coffee cup lid that covered them.
Spring will not be denied.
Spring will not be stopped.
Spring is here.
-D. Sloma, 2013
Boi Meets Grl – a vampire story
Two Goth club kids must return an ancient cursed necklace they find which belongs to a head vampire before their luck runs out and they too are made into undead servants.
Outside the Goth club Eternal Abyss black-clad patrons smoke and talk, as the music of Peter Murphy singing “Cuts You Up” seeps out to the street and coats the sidewalks in gold. Scents float on the air from different cigarettes: tobacco, pot, and Djarum’s.
This is the hangout of Alex and Jo, who soon find out that vampires are real in their city of Montreal, and must battle them for their lives – and immortal souls.
It’s two Goth club kids versus the vampires in this tale of love – and blood – across the centuries.
Contains a free bonus chapter of “Robot Town” by the author.
This story is also a feature length screenplay.
Kindle edition and paperback: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BY8655Q
Paperback edition: https://www.createspace.com/4209369
Blizzard today!
We had a little blizzard today! On the first full day of Spring!
Poem I wrote today
Earth’s Breath
Watching by the shore
listening to the breath of the planet
roll in
then out
on white crests
the geese don’t seem to mind –
they bop on the waves
they were made for this.
Copyright 2013 David Sloma, all rights reserved.
“Nonfic 1” free for 5 days
My eBook “Nonfic 1” is my first collection of short non-fiction and it’s free for the next 5 days on Amazon.
You don’t even need a Kindle to read it (though it would be nice), as Amazon has free aps and Kindle readers for you to download.
Contents: Happy 50th Anniversary Twilight Zone!, My Co-Dependent Apple Relationship, Iggy And The Stooges (Toronto, June 2010), Turning Forty,
Ratdog – Massey Hall (Toronto, October 29, 2003) – and more!
Bonus: Free Sample Of Robot Town By David Sloma
I hope you enjoy my free eBook,
Dave
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EDIT: this book’s rating on the free Kindle charts: #9 on Amazon.de non-fiction (Memoiren), #28 on Amazon UK, #23 on Amazon.com – see https://twitter.com/David_Sloma for screenshots.
-16C and snow
Taken Away free on Amazon
My short story Taken Away will be free from Sunday, Feb., 17th to Thur, Feb., 21st on Amazon.com – no Kindle reader needed – viewable on most computers with the free Kindle software.
This story was rejected by several magazines. It’s been at #2 and #3 in the free Kindle short story list for science fiction for days now…funny! You can get a free copy and you don’t need a Kindle to read it, there are aps!
“Bob, the security guard, purchases a bathmat at W-mart that has a rather strange pattern on it: when he steps on it a portal opens to another world! Will Bob get home in time for his next shift? A short SF/Fantasy story. (Includes a free sample excerpt from the author’s novel Brainjob.)
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This promotion is going well!
My eBook reached:
#2 on Amazon.com for free Science Fiction Short Stories
#2 on Amazon Canada (Amazon.ca) for free Science Fiction Anthologies
#1 on Amazon Japan (Amazon.co.jp) for free Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, and #5 for free Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
#1 on Amazon Germany (Amazon.de) for free Science Fiction Anthologies, and #5 for free Belletristik, Kurzgeschichten
#17 on Amazon Spain (Amazon.es) for free FantasÃa, terror y ciencia ficción, Ciencia ficción
#16 on Amazon UK (Amazon.co.uk) for free Fiction, Short Stories
See my Twitter or Facebook for screenshots of these milestones – and I will try and get them on here, soon.
Special thanks to FreeBooksy, who gave my eBook a prominent feature! http://www.freebooksy.com/freebooks/2013/2/18/three-science-fiction-ebooks-for-free-on-kindle.html
Paperback of “Taken Away”
The paperback version of my story “Taken Away” is now available!
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“Robot Town” – my new book
My latest book “Robot Town” is now on sale!
Belmont Brose is a young IT worker sick of how robots are encroaching into his life. They are at his job and gangs of them wander the streets looking for victims. He visits his elderly friend Mr. Kim in his shop in China Town dubbed “Robot Town.†Mr. Kim warns him about the robot takeover and makes a plan to escape. Now they must get out of the robot’s city and help save humanity – if they can.
Includes an Author’s Note and a sample chapter from my novel “Brainjob”.
Ebook in multiple formats: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/276766
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