The Blook
One hundred and seventy-six short short stories about aliens and the apocalypse and things that were in my head at the time
Tales of kings and wizards and prophesy!
Of mothers and their paragliders!
Of Funicular railways and the Osmosis of Houses!
Marvel at the exploits of Chainsaw-wielding jungle adventurers
Gape at Xenomorphs alien and otherwise!
Invasions! Homoforms! Shoplifting!
Birds and Bees and Why not to look down
Why buy it? After all, all of these stories are available on this very website! Well…
- It’s portable
The ebook version is a PDF file with no DRM – you can export it, copy it, give fifty copies to your close personal friends or even your friends in spirit on Bittorrent. Not only that, but it is also available in an innovative boreal-derived handheld format, which I will henceforth refer to as a book!
- It’s all in one place
You can easily copy or spider this site for all of the components to the book, but that involves work on your part – I’ve already done all the work for you!
- It makes a great gift
for the sci-fi or fantasy reader in your life!
- It’s perfect for the bathroom reader
176 provides short, satisfying snatches of prose that are perfect for the smallest room of the house!
- It’s spec fic for a busy world
Want to read but find you don’t have time to? Most stories in the collection are between five hundred and seven hundred words. At the average human reading speed of around two hundred and fifty words per minute – that’s only two to four minutes a story!
- It funds me
Buying this book will fund my professional development as a writer, and help me pay my bills and thus keep writing - think of it as a donation!