If you had told me, at the end of last year, that I wouldn't even manage to put out one of my stories a month in 2025, well, I probably wouldn't have been surprised. Disappointed, sure, but not surprised.
But hey, here's what I managed to get out this month, a short(ish) story called "Slightly Used, Mildly Cursed." It was born when, being too cheap to buy new floormats for my car last year, I went on Facebook Marketplace, and found a listing for mats that were "Gently used." It amused me, because floormats tend to either get used hard or not used at all (what, do you suppose they made people take their shoes off when they got in the car?). And I imagined other similar listings for floormats that were "Slightly soiled" or "Partially befouled" or "Mildly cursed." And a story was born.
Big Anklevich too accepted my challenge to write a story about cursed floormats, and his tale is called "Pre-Owned," which you can buy RIGHT HERE. My own tale, is about Jesse, a Los Angeleno whose ex-girlfriend suggests he buy new floormats, and he, being only barely less cheap than I am, picks up some five dollar mats that are both slightly used and "Mildly Cursed." And from that point on, his luck goes south real quick.
Your luck may too take a turn for the worse, if you don't go to THIS LINK and buy the short story.
Okay, that's highly unlikely. But no more so than me getting another tale published this month.
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