Fiction and Other Unusual Creations
Stories on the Web:
(Two stories!)
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Two more signings coming up: August 14, at Hastings Entertainment in Grand Island, Nebraska; and September 25th at The Bookworm, Countryside Village, Omaha. For more details you can check out my Facebook Group.
What? You didn't know I had a Facebook Group? Yeah--it's the 21st Century, right? Just click here or do a search for "fiction by Greg M. Hall" and Like it for more news and updates.
This month's Sample o' The Month is a piece of a story featured in the inaugural issue of Outer Reaches Magazine. Click Here to order yourself a copy--it's a great-looking magazine full of excellent stories, and leaving a copy on your coffee table lets people know you've got complex literary tastes.
Traffic Control is still available at Hastings Entertainment in Fremont, Norfolk, Grand Island, and Kearney, Nebraska; The Bookworm in Omaha; and Chapters Books and Gifts in Seward, Nebraska. Stop by and take a look at its yellow and black glory!
Or, if you prefer online commerce, Click here to get yourself a copy. The book itself is very reasonably priced at eight bucks, but don't forget the Tax Guy and the Mailman want their cut. All in all it'll still run you less than a dinner at your favorite restaurant that employs wait staff.
For daily newness, check out the Steamin' Fresh blog. All pre-blog posts are now safely stored under Old Thoughts.
Alternative Universe Earth of the Week
This week's AUE: Earth #1700
"The world is flat," declared the greatest mathematical and cartological minds of the developing nations on Earth #1700. Until their middle ages, no credible information rose to prove them wrong. Sailors spoke of 'corners' of the world, fearsome zones where ship crews were stricken with the motion-sick sensation of rolling downhill for an hour straight, but the scientists didn't believe them.
That all changed in the seventeenth century, when Martin Tomas Del Velasco discovered a new continent, a vast land full of strange creatures and natives that spoke of 'falling mountains'. Later explorers, led by local guides, discovered a ridge that was a land-based 'corner of the world', later dubbed 'hinge lines' by cartographers.
Three men of the first party survived the tragedy that befell them. They stepped over the hinge line and then quickly back and fell, rolling on weathered rock in the distorted gravity.
Increasingly sophisticated surveying techniques revealed that Earth 1700 was an icosahedron.
In modern times, the hinge line zones are devoid of population, but the planet's amusement parks all located there.
