Tales of eBay Horror 9: Feedback Frenzy

Here's yet another episode of "Tales of eBay Horror."

It's another spooky true story about selling on eBay, this one calling itself "Feedback Frenzy." Beware the buyer scorned!

Rish Outcast 150: How The Forsakened Sausage Is Made

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!

So, I came out of audiobook retirement with Angela Townsend's "The Forsakened," a sequel to her horror novel "The Forlorned."

But should I have? And furthermore, should I talk about it?

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Rish Outcast 149: The Reaper's Image

In this one I put out the last of my Stephen King audio readings, "The Reaper's Image." It's a 1969 story that later appeared in the "Skeleton Crew" collection.

It's good stuff, but why is it my last one? Well, go ahead and listen, kids.



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Just say no! 

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Rish Outcast 148: I Had No Hat

In this one, I talk about getting sick . . . and not getting well for a good long time.  And how it made me re-examine my health and future.  And free balloons for the kids!



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Rish Outcast 147: New Year's Day (Part III)

So, here's the ending, such that it is, of the "New Year's Day" novella.  Then some talk about it.

Oh, and the frogs have their say as well.



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Music by Kevin McLeod of Incompetech.com.

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Childhood Innocence

My family was finally cleaning out the garage at my childhood home this weekend, and my mother handed me an old notebook.  "Looks like this was yours," she said.

I opened it up, and found a short story from over thirty years ago.  It was a Sci-Fi tale, presumably unfinished, that I have no memory of writing.  In my handwriting, though.  A couple of pages later were tons of drawings of boobies and wieners.

Yep, definitely mine.  I wonder how Mom could tell.

Rish Outcast 146: New Year's Day (Part II)

Here's another healthy/mildly-infirm chunk of the "New Year's Day" novella. And lots of chat as well!

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Tales of eBay Horror 8: The Not-Quite-Canceled Transaction

Here I am again, with another terrifyingly true tale of selling on eBay.  This one involves a canceled transaction . . . or was it?

Bid with confidence!

Rish Outcast 145: New Year's Day (Part I)

Here's the first healthy chunk of my 2004 novella "New Year's Day." Dave, Britt, and Rob know all about the famous Laemmle House, but do they dare to venture inside?

In this section, we get all the way up to the edge of The Big Reveal, and then I end it, to start talking about this job I had in the Nineties.

But hey, this ain't your first rodeo. You knew what I was when you picked me up.



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R.I.P. Rutger Hauer

In early 1986, my Uncles Ali and Len took me to see a forgettable Kevin Bacon movie called QUICKSILVER.  When it was over, however, they suggested we sneak into a second movie, and that movie was THE HITCHER.

Most folks remember Rutger Hauer from BLADE RUNNER, and that's fine (easily his most iconic performance), but THE HITCHER made me a fan of the man.  It was a dark, scary, and fun movie that happened to be the first R-rated film I saw in the theater, and afterward, my Uncle Ali kept telling me that John Ryder was coming for me, and we made fun (via puns) of the rather horrible death of Jennifer Jason Leigh's character.  A seminal experience for me.

The man passed away this week, at the age of seventy-five, due to an (really?) unspecified illness. 

I really loved Rutger Hauer.  I was excited to see him in anything he showed up in, from BATMAN BEGINS to LADYHAWKE, from one of the DRACULA 2000s to BLIND FURY ("I also do circumcisions"), from an ALIEN rip-off called SPLIT SECOND to a recent movie actually titled HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN.  When Sam Raimi started making Spider-man movies, I hoped that eventually they'd get to Kraven the Hunter, and that Rutger Hauer would be their go-to guy. 

But for me, it will always be John Ryder, my favorite Eighties film Slasher.

I Narrate "Soul Cleaver Clarence" on Cast of Wonders

Some time ago, Katherine Inskip over at Cast of Wonders (The YA Fantasy Podcast) contacted me about doing another story for them.  Apparently, author Matthew Jarvis had tasked me* with narrating his piece. 

It was a tale called "Soul Cleaver Clarence," about a young dragon unhappy with the role in life he's been cast in, who meets a young human woman who's unhappy with the role she's been given.  It was enjoyable and I got to do some fun voices in it.  However, this is a full-cast production, so the voice talents of Alexis Goble, M.K. Hobson, Jen R. Albert, Cheyenne Wright, and Anne B. Davis as Alice will round out (i.e. save) my performance.**  I know a little something about putting together full-cast productions, so the episode must be pretty special to go to all that extra trouble.

Mayhaps you will enjoy it as well. 

You can check it out AT THIS LINK.

*He tasks me.  He tasks me, and I shall have him!

**But maybe, for science's sake, I should release my solo performance, just in case people are morbidly curious.  You never know.