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Alien Beer Podcast – Ep. 10 – Nightmare In Frills

Posted on 2020/06/04 by

For Halloween 2014, I joined a bunch of writer friends in a sort of blog-based celebration of the holiday in an event called the Coffin Hop. I asked for story elements from those friends, and this is what they came … Continue reading →

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Alien Beer Podcast – Spectral Delivery

Posted on 2020/05/21 by

“Spectral Delivery” started life in early 2013 as a sample story to serve as introduction to my Road Ghosts Trilogy. Its chronological place in the series is somewhere between the second book, Sinking Down, and the third one, Me and the Devil, but it’s … Continue reading →

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Ep. 8 – Killer Cure

Posted on 2020/05/07 by

“Killer Cure” was my very first Iron Writer story. I wrote it for the third-ever Challenge, in March 2013, using these four elements: A failed superhero, a piano, a boat propeller and a Chechem/Chaka tree. My story won against two … Continue reading →

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Alien Beer Podcast – Ch 6. The Multiverse Blues – 32-20 Blues

Posted on 2020/04/30 by

Jules and the crew of Hope’s Tour find themselves beset by xenophobic protesters as they set up for a show at the New Louie Coliseum in the Gamma Earth ‘verse. https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ekzpvb/Ch_6__-The_Multiverse_Blues-_32-20_Blues.mp3

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Alien Beer Podcast: Bonus 4 – Speakeasy

Posted on 2020/04/20 by

For this bonus episode, I have a special guest reading. My wife Amy Garrison wrote a fun bit of microfiction that I thought might make a topical bonus for the podcast. I envy her reading voice. https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-djnh9-d9b165

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Alien Beer Podcast: Ch 5. The Multiverse Blues – I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom

Posted on 2020/04/16 by

This episode finds Jules and the others in Hope’s crew scrambling after an unexpected turn of events with Smiley and his men, and then on to New Louie for their concert in the Gamma ‘verse. When I started The Multiverse … Continue reading →

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Animal Crossing RPG

Posted on 2020/04/09 by

Last night, my friends and I played the Animal Crossing RPG, a one-page Lasers & Feelings hack. Since I love one page TTRPGs, awhile ago, I wrote my own hack of the L&F system, a monster hunting game called Saving … Continue reading →

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Alien Beer Podcast: The Spark

Posted on 2020/04/09 by

This was a story that originated in late 2014 as a self-challenge: to write a short story set in one of the universes featured in my novel Reality Check. It kicked off the beginnings of a sequel to that book, which … Continue reading →

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Ch 4. The Multiverse Blues – Last Fair Deal Gone Down #sciencefiction #serial #audio

Posted on 2020/04/02 by

In this episode, the crew of Hope’s Tour introduces Jules to the retro ‘verse of Gamma Earth and its hazards. The Multiverse Blues is a science fiction serial spanning many alternate realities. https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z5za8-d5af6e

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Alien Beer Podcast – Personal Space

Posted on 2020/03/26 by

When I wrote this story in 2014, I couldn’t have pictured our current pandemic lockdown. I decided to post this episode earlier than it appears in my Alien Beer and Other Stories anthology because of its timely topic — social isolation. In … Continue reading →

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