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Cubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 1: Magical Poisonings
Welcome back! I hope you had a great week. This Tuesday’s story sample is the entire first chapter from the contemporary fantasy novel, Cubicles, Blood, and Magic. Cheers. (Note- This story is...
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Cubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 2: Poisoned
Welcome to another Tuesday! If you missed Chapter 1 of Cubicles, Blood, and Magic, click here. This Tuesday we continue where we left off–Dorelai and Dereck on a really bad date. What follows is the...
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Cubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 3: Magic and Medicine
My God, last week was awful, not only with the Boston Marathon bombings, but also the fertilizer plant explosion in Texas and the earthquake in China. A heartbreaking week…. My right eye has cleared...
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Cubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 4: AOX Investigations
Wow, another week has raced by. Right now I’m hard at work on the redrafting of the sequel to Cubicles–I think I’ve figured out how to shrink the darn thing down from 170,000 words to a more reasonable...
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Cubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 5: Spying on Jake
We’ve reached Chapter 5 from Cubicles, Blood, and Magic. If you missed the earlier chapters, click here. This Tuesday we start with Dorelai beginning to spy on Jake. Here is the entire fifth chapter...
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Cubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 6: Zaliel’s Magi
As some of you probably noticed, instead of stopping at Chapter 4 of Cubicles, Blood, and Magic, we went onward to Chapter 5. I’ve decided to post to Chapter 10, and then switch to posting excerpts of...
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Cubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 7: A Job Interview with Louie
We’ve now reached Chapter 7 of Cubicles, Blood, and Magic. When we last left off, Dorelai was about to talk to O’Keefe in the middle of the night. If you missed the earlier chapters, click here....
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Cubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 8: Into the Labyrinth
Soon we’ll reach Chapter 10, and after that chapter is posted we’ll move on to something new. Most of what is posted on Tuesdays will continue to be excerpts, but as various short stories and novels...
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Cubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 9: Sign on the Dotted Line
We now continue with Chapter 9 of Cubicles, Blood, and Magic. If you missed the earlier chapters, click here. (PG-13) Cubicles, Blood, and Magic: Dorelai Chronicles, Book One L. M. May Copyright ©...
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Cubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 10: A Dangerous Task
I am going to be busy tomorrow, so I am posting this chapter early. We’ve reached Chapter 10 of Cubicles, Blood, and Magic. If you missed the earlier chapters, click here. (This story is PG-13.)...
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Shade Town – Excerpt
Here’s the news of the week: 1) A new story, King of All He Surveyed, is rolling out into e-bookstores right now and is up at places such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It’s a science fiction tale...
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Soul Cages – Part One. Dreams in the Desert. 16 and 17.
The writing news of the week is that I have two new short stories coming out in e-bookstores in October. The first is a science fiction story for tweens, King of All He Surveyed. The second is a short...
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A Maze of Cubicles: A Dorelai Short Story
The short story collection Tales from the Threshold is being released this week in e-bookstores. It will be popping up in the next 24 hours for sale in e-book form at places such as Kobo, Amazon, and...
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Soul Cages – Part One. Dreams in the Desert. 23.
The news for the week is that print editions of Tales from the Threshold and Cubicles, Blood, and Magic should come out before Spring 2014 (unless the snafu that delayed them continues). The editing of...
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Two Sales on Read an Ebook Week
It’s Read an Ebook Week from March 2 to 8, and so two stories have been discounted at Smashwords in celebration. You can get the short story, A Maze of Cubicles, for free by using the sale code at...
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The Lavender in Bloom with Honeybees and a Comment About Short Stories
It feels great to have the media files on this website working. The lavender is in full bloom here in New Mexico, so here’s a picture of lavender in the back yard. There are honeybees all over the...
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Certain Short Stories Going Off Sale Very Soon
Quick double post this week. First up, publishing stuff. Well, it’s turned out that various changes got pushed through during the 4th of July weekend. Second editions of A Maze of Cubicles and Tales...
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Happy New Year, and a Frank Speech by me
First off, I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year. May 2015 be a joyful and peaceful year for you. My New Year’s resolution–with regards to myself–is utter frankness, both in my personal life, and in...
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Print Editions in June and New Stories on the Way
Hello! I hope you all are having a terrific June. I’m happy to announce that print editions of Tales from the Threshold and Cubicles, Blood, and Magic are being released this month. I got two of the...
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The Passage into Autumn
Autumn has finally returned here in the Southwest, and we can feel the passing of summer into winter. The harvest and roasting of green chile is almost over, and the leaves have begun to brown along...
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